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
No
new web sites this week.
Blogs
Doukhobor Photos http://doukhoborphotos.blogspot.ca
Yvonne Demoskoff , a Canadian blogger, has a new blog which is “
showcasing vintage "orphan" photographs of Doukhobor people in Canada”.
Facebook,
Videos, You Tube
Conference
2014 is being hosted by Niagara Peninsula Branch of the OGS and will run from
May 1-4, 2014 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Prepare
for your visit by checking out their video at www.ogs.on.ca/conference2014/index.php
Newspapers
Articles of the Week
A
couple of weeks ago, I made note of a bylaw in Brant County (Ontario) which did
not allow etchings on the back of gravestones, this is the way that Koreans mark
their genealogy of the departed.
News
has come now that the Brant councillors have approved a revised cemetery bylaw
that will allow genealogical writing on the reverse of headstones.
The
story is covered in the newspaper www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2013/07/02/new-bylaw-allows-etchings-on-back-of-monuments
New Maryland
Historical Trust sign to recognize Acadian heritage on the shore http://maryland.newszap.com/crisfieldsomerset/123293-92/new-maryland-historical-trust-sign-to-recognize-acadian-heritage-on-the-shore?printerfriendly=true Nearly 260 years ago, a small group of Acadians
refugees landed on the shores of
Maryland. On Sunday, July 28 at 3:00
p.m, in the Manokin River Park, a Maryland Historical Trust Sign will be
unveiled to recognize this fact.
One woman’s passion for genealogy www.gulfnews.ca/Community/2013-06-26/article-3293227/One-woman&rsquos-passion-for-genealogy/1 See how Claudia Lawrence from Port aux
Basques, Newfoundland has put her family history together back to her great-great-grandfather.
Story of the
Week
Museums,
library and archives facilities in Canada have been having a hard time lately.
First was the flood in Alberta which completely wiped out the Museum of the Highwood
in High River. Now I hear that the people of High River are getting first class
help from the conservation people from Calgary. They have come down to help the
staff at the High River museum decide what
to keep and what to throw away, and to get the museum back on its feet again.
Then
we had the news of the terrible disaster at Lac Megantic, in the Eastern Townships
in Quebec, with the runaway train accident that occurred early Saturday morning
last week. In addition to the astounding loss of life, there has been the fact
that the town’s library and archives has been lost in the fire which engulfed
the town.
Read the story at http://metronews.ca/news/canada/737250/library-archives-destroyed-in-train-disaster
And then just yesterday, I heard that the Thistalalh Memorial Library at Bella
Bella, a British Columbia remote First Nations village on the province’s
northwest coast, has been destroyed by fire. The library was housed in a
building which also was home to the village’s general store, Alexa's
restaurant, and the Koeye Cafe.
It
is covered by the CBC in their story at www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/07/12/bc-bella-bella-fire.html?cmp=rss
Reminder:
Check out Canadian Week in Review every Monday for the latest in Genealogy,
Heritage, and History news in Canada. The next post will be posted 22 July,
2013
