I
have come across the following Canadian websites, blogs, Facebook, and
newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought
you might be interested in them, too
Websites
Eagle River History http://eagleriverhistory.ca Eagle River, Ontario is located in Northwestern Ontario, and the origin
of town goes back to the late 1800s.
The website says that “The town has a varied background including being
a Canadian Pacific Railway stop for coal and water in the steam engine period.
Logging, power generation, tourism are some of the other principal
mainstays of the town”.
Blogs
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Canadian
History Association Blog (CHA) www.cha-shc.ca/en/Other_useful_links_68/0/2.html
The site has a list of all Canadian historical blogs in the country, and an Historian Database, where historians put in their profile, so that you
may contact them if they are researching the same area as you.
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Facebook,
Videos, You Tube
Newspapers
Articles of the Week
Social
media buffs help find heirs of property lost in Holocaust on the Internet www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/social-media-buffs-help-find-heirs-of-property-lost-in-holocaust-on-the-internet/article13472564
Read how Gilad Japhet, CEO and founder of Israel-based MyHeritage.com is helping descendants claim their property lost in the Holocaust.
The dark history of the Old Prison of
Trois-Rivieres is brought to light in guided tours www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/dark+history+Prison+Trois+Rivieres+brought+light+guided+tours/8666219/story.html A glimpse into early penal life in Canada
NovaStory…bringing light to your stories www.ngnews.ca/Community/2013-07-28/article-3331396/NovaStorybringing-light-to-your-stories/1
Read how the Pictou County, Nova Scotia library, and how they have an online database of maps,
histories, and cemeteries.
Fire Destroys
Canadian Library, Archive http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/07/industry-news/fire-destroys-canadian-library-archive
Read how the Lac-Mégantic library, destroyed by fire in the train
derailment a month ago, will move to a new facility in November.
Heritage designation sought for St. Charles Church in Vanier www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/preserve+Charles+Church+Vanier+local+resident+applied/8723095/story.html
St.
Charles Church in Vanier may soon be on the market as a "tear down" to make way
for condos. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa says that the church lacks
historic value, a Vanier resident is seeking heritage designation for the
105-year-old building.
Welcome to Internment Camp B70, a little known piece of New Brunswick's
history www.theprovince.com/news/Welcome+Internment+Camp+little+known+piece+Brunswicks/8745969/story.html
Read the article about Camp B70, a internment camp for 700 Jewish people during
the Second World War.
Gore Park buildings likely to receive heritage
status, councillor says hwww.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/07/23/hamilton-gore-park-heritage-building-status.html
Hamilton industrial neighbourhood most likely will receive Heritage Status
Story of the
Week
Operation Husky
2013
In
July and August of 1943, 25,000 Canadian soldier took part in the liberation
of Sicily. My uncle, Perley Arnold BARCLAY, was a member
of the 1st Canadian Division that landed in Sicily in July that year.
Operation
Husky has been formed to help honour the memory of those people who died in the
operation, and they have definite plans to remember the liberation of Sicily.
They
have a new war
memorial to the memory the Canadians who landed there on that date 70 years
earlier, and they are looking for support to erect markers to the men who dies there. Each one of the markers will carry the name of a soldier who
died there.
In so doing, they feel that they can “visually
represent the loss suffered by so many Canadian families in the liberation of
Sicilian soil while funding the legacy initiatives”.
There
are videos onsite at www.operationhusky2013.ca/latest-news/the-latest-videos
For
more information, go to http://www.operationhusky2013.ca
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