Calling all Farmers: be an Open Farm Days host

Did you know (if you are not from Alberta) that Alberta Open Farm Days is a province-
wide open house, of sorts. This year, on August 22 and 23rd, farmers and ranchers across the province will be invited to open their gates and share their story! 

 

The third annual Alberta Open Farm Days offers visitors a fun way to experience rural life. People can enjoy farm-to-table culinary events on the Saturday and free admission to farm tours across the province on the Sunday. Last year there were 61 host farms and 17 culinary events. 

 

Registration to be a host is now easier thanks to an online registration form available at www.albertafarmdays.com. The application deadline for host farms is April 30.

 

Their Facebook page is on https://www.facebook.com/openfarmdays

 

There is a PDF guide available at
http://www.albertafarmdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Alberta-Open-Farm-Days-Guide-new.pdf

 

Check the Canadian Week in Review every Monday morning for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and History news in Canada.

If you missed this week’s edition, it is at http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2015/03/canadian-week-in-review-23-march-2015_23.html

It’s the ONLY news blog of its kind in Canada!

It has been a regular post every Monday morning since April 23, 2012. 

Does blended families mean blended surnames

A blended family in Yellowknife has chosen something different – they have used a hybrid surname

They have put together the first four letters of his surname (Van Overbeek) and the last three letters of her last name (Harilyw - they changed the letter ‘y’ to the letter ‘i’ in her name), and came up with  Van Overliw

So what does this do to genealogy? We are now creating special last names that didn’t exist before, it will be a hybrid last name.

If you want to read the full article, it is on http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/blended-families-blended-names-1.2127504

Dick Eastman and Tourtière Genealogy

Dick Eastman wrote in his newsletter this morning about his French-Canadian ancestry, and the making of the Christmas meat pie in an article called “Tourtière Genealogy”. 

He talks about how he has it every Christmas, but he didn’t realize that people from different parts of Quebec have different views on meat pies – and it is tied in with their ancestry.

The article came about because of a story in The Montreal Gazette by Susan Semenak in which she talks about the beloved French-Canadian food tourtière called “The genealogy of your tourtière: The Quebec Christmas feast staple, the tourtière, can reveal where a person’s family comes from”.

To read about it, go to www.montrealgazette.com/genealogy+your+tourti%C3%A8re/7683786/story.html

To read Dick's article, go to http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/12/tourti%C3%A8re-genealogy.html


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