This Week in Canadian History
Saint John, New Brunswick
Today, it is known as the Fundy City, and be sure to read about the city's firsts. It is quite astounding for a city, today's population of about 70,000.
If you would like to learn more, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John,_New_Brunswick
Montreal's First School
Governor Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve ceded to Marguerite Bourgeoys, and commissioned an abandoned stable to build the first school in Ville-Marie for the dozen or so school-aged children in the colony.
Audio: Ottawa colouring book 'total love letter' to capital
Sharpen your pencil crayons — an Ottawa-themed colouring book featuring drawings from local artists is coming in the capital.
Jason Cobill and Maxime Gauthier-Kwan were awarded a $1,000 Awesome Ottawa grant for their Ottawa in Colour project that reflects life in the capital.
Newspaper Articles
Nova Scotia
In-class Gaelic program to be offered
Baile nan Gàidheal/Highland Village will offer an in-class Gaelic program for students from May 16-19, to celebrate Gaelic Awareness Month.
Halifax to consider scrubbing city of Edward Cornwallis
Cornwallis founded Halifax in 1749. Later that year, he issued a bounty on the scalps of Mi'kmaq men, women and children.
Demolition of Young Avenue mansion halted over safety concerns
Demolition of a large home called the Cleveland Estate — also known as the wedding cake house — on Young Avenue in Halifax is temporarily on hold after an occupational health and safety officer discovered safety issues at the site.
Ontario
JOY OF GENEALOGY: The family Bible is a great place to research your family tree
Old bibles may contain the trilogy of family records: births, marriages and deaths. Perhaps even more. Maybe an elusive maiden name is listed in the marriage records or a baptism is recorded for a child you didn’t know existed.
Tecumseh statue to mark important War of 1812 battle
Mark Williams can finally sit back and take in the life-size statue of Chief Tecumseh in his garage art studio.
Standing almost three metres high, there is plenty of detail to look at with the statue carved out of clay and Styrofoam over the past six months. Williams now has the delicate task of cutting the statue into pieces so it can be sent off to be bronzed.
Hundreds Gather at First Canadian Black History Summit
Nearly 500 people recently gathered for the inaugural Canadian Black History Summit held in a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The free conference, held April 16, 2016, was co-hosted by the nonprofit FamilySearch International (the genealogical arm of the Church) and the Ontario Black History Society.
Families of the Kawarthas: The Batten Family
Richard Batten came to Canada and died 1833 Mar 30, intestate (no will). His younger brother, William of Dummer, requested admon as the only relative in Upper Canada (admon is the legal permission to administer an intestate estate).
Manitoba
Winnipeg walkabout
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2016/05/04/winnipeg-walkabout
I would have been more engaged in history class if my teachers included more about how our city evolved, but for whatever reason there was little discussion about local past events.
http://www.winnipegsun.com/2016/05/04/winnipeg-walkabout
I would have been more engaged in history class if my teachers included more about how our city evolved, but for whatever reason there was little discussion about local past events.
Winnipeg’s roots are quite entertaining — just ask Matt Carreau, who has been organizer of Jane’s Walk the past six years.
Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame and Museum moving archives online
http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2016/05/03/manitoba-curling-museum-moving-archives-online.html
The Manitoba Curling Hall of Fame and Museum (MCHFM) announced during its annual hall of fame induction ceremony on May 1 that it has begun developing an online display of its vast collection of curling artefacts.
The decision to migrate the archives into a digital space follows the museum’s display spaces at The Forks and later the Bay downtown being lost.
Alberta
U of L’s Centre for Oral History and Tradition to offer public workshops
http://www.nantonnews.com/2016/05/03/u-of-ls-centre-for-oral-history-and-tradition-to-offer-public-workshops
Oral history projects help bring the past to life through the voices of people who lived at the time. Members of the University of Lethbridge’s Centre for Oral History and Tradition (COHT), in partnership with the Galt Museum and Archives, are offering their expertise as oral historians to help southern Albertans make their projects a reality
British Columbia
Further recollections of the historical society
http://www.pinchercreekecho.com/2016/05/03/further-recollections-of-the-historical-society
In last week’s Living History article, we had a look back at some of the chronicles of the Pincher Creek and District Historical Society. This year, 2016, marks the half-century celebrations of this agency which operates the Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village so it seems fitting to take a look back at some of its own history.
Canadian Stories this Week
Have you completed your census yet?
In fact, the StatsCan website confirms to CBC News that service to census was interrupted for 45 minutes this week. That is unheard of – especially for the county's census.
Genealogists has ticked off the box which say that they want their census information to be made public in 92 years, so we have made our wished made.
You have until May 10th to send it in.
You can read the website http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/census-2016-nerds-1.3563808
Canadian blogger attends NGS 2016
She asks why attendance was so light. But I think all attendance at conference is low since the early 2000's. It has been in the OGS, as well as attendance in the membership, year by year.
The reason for that? There are many reasons – the rise of Webinars, Goggle+ Hangouts, Live Streaming of certain lectures, the rise of look-ups on the Internet by hobby genealogists, the rise of DNA which lead the hobby genealogists to think that they have their solve genealogy; whereas, they may have not and they give up, the causes are many – often too numerous to delineate. But it all goes back to the rise of the Internet, and people have to put parts of their genealogy on the Net for free, and people can't see the advantage of going to conferences.
Read the post at http://scottishgenealogytipsntricks.blogspot.com/2016/05/poor-turn-out-at-ngs-2016.html
And that was the week in Canadian news!
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