Library and Archives Canada has launched a new website featuring interviews with Canada’s veterans of the First World War.
The site Oral Histories of the First World War has audio files of interviews with more than 20 veterans.
The interviews originated in the CBC series In Flanders Fields, a series of one-on-one interviews with veterans of the […]
The manifests of ships arriving at Canadian Ports listing passengers have been preserved on microfilm at Library and Archives Canada. The goal of the Nanaimo Family History Society is to index arrivals at Halifax and Quebec (Montreal is included in the Port of Quebec) from 1900 to about 1921 when the passenger lists were […]
Every now and then over the last couple years, I’ve written blogs about Ward Churchill - just because the man always seems to be in the news. A few days ago, I got the following response from a Canadian blog reader. I find it very interesting and am posting it for you.
I was interested in […]
This morning I had the opportunity to use Dave Obee’s new CanGenealogy.com website. I can only say this - If you’re doing Canadian genealogy, you must bookmark Dave’s site and use it as your portal for finding Canadian ancestors.
I think Dave hit it on the head when he made the decision as to how his […]
PRESCOTT [Ontario, Canada] - A new use for the old Prescott train station is just down the track.
Town council has approved a deal to lease the station building on Railway Avenue to the Grenville County Historical Society for $1 a year for 50 years.
However, the town still has to wait for Canadian National (CN) Railway […]
The following news release dealing with Ancestry’s Canadian website was just released:
PROVO, Utah, Sept. 6 /CNW/ — Ancestry.ca, the world’s largest online family history source, today announced it has significantly enhanced its website’s search, save and share features, creating a more personalized, collaborative, family history research and social networking experience. The revamped site provides more […]
History Television will begin the broadcast of “Ancestors in the Attic,” a new 13-episode series, October 13 at 9:30 pm ET/PT. If you live in Canada, you can get access. Jeff Douglas, host of “Things That Move,” will host the show. The fast-paced show will take viewers on a road trip across Canada, on […]
It’s like a blog done on a typewriter.
Page after page of farm notes, the day’s news, offbeat poems, horseshoe scores, visitors to the farm, literature reviews, profiles and more, all typed around hand-drawn illustrations.
The vivid newsletters from the 1920s and 1930s came to life when Burford veterinarian Chris Crombie cleaned out the damp and cluttered […]
PARTRIDGE ISLAND Local efforts to restore the historic Ottawa House to its former glory took a major leap forward this past weekend when the province donated $150,000 to the project.
“Various studies have indicated the restoration could cost $500,000 to $1.5 million depending on what the restoration entails,” Frank Hartman, vice-president of the Parrsborough Shore […]
Seems that Albertans don’t necessarily want to be enumerated very bad. I have a few friends up that way, and I’d say that their a pretty independent bunch of folks. Not clammering to be counted is no surprise here… This is not good for genealogy in the 22nd century however.
Albertans pride themselves on being Canadian, […]
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection since I last blogged the site. The website, specializing in data extracted from pamplets, rosters, membership lists and such, now has over 600,000 searchable entries - and grows daily.
ALABAMA
Anniston 1924 Telephone Directory - Telephone Directory. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. […]
The new Ancestry.ca website now boasts over 13 million searchable people in their databases. The announcement was made today that they have posted the 1901 census, as well as the 1906 census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. They had already published the 1911 data. These censuses are indexed, with the indexes linked to the images. […]