Oldest lighthouse in the Americans to get renovations

The federal government has recently announced the a Nova Scotia lighthouse – the Sambro Island lighthouse – is more than $1.5 million in federal funding over the next two years for renovations.

The lighthouse has been in operation for more than 250 years, and the work will include restoring the lighthouse's original lantern, painting the building and installing heating and ventilation.

The lighthouse was built in 1758 and is considered the oldest one in operation in the Americas.

For more information, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambro_Island_Light

For more information, go to the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/sambrolighthouse



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Children of Topley

Photo of Missie Perley, Ottawa, July 1893 – photographer William Topley 

(Library and Archives Canada : Mikan 3489570)

In honour of Mother’s Day, the Children of Topley, photos taken by William Topley from Ottawa who took many photos of children in his studio, have been places on Flickr by the Library and Archives Canada.

Comprised of over 150,000 glass plate negatives as well as studio proofs and counter books, the Topley Collection dates from 1868 to 1923.

To check out the collection, go to Flickr, the Children of Topley is at https://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/sets/72157651170942042/?rb=1 

To read the full biography, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Topley

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Another indexing opportunity

A new project that has been started by the Kawartha Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society is the indexing of the family histories in the society’s library. 

They hope to create a name index for each history and will put the index in TONI (The Ontario Name Index - the three million and growing name index created by OGS).

If you would like to help, this is another project you can do in your own home. You will be sent a digitized copy of the family history, you read it, and you enter each name you find into a spreadsheet.

It sounds like a neat thing to do over the summer!

If you want to help, please contact them at kawarthaprojects@ogs.on.ca 

The website for the TONI page is http://www.ogs.on.ca/projects.php#toni



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