Family History @ Your Library

My Thanks go to David Nicholson of Thunder Bay for sending the following article to me. It sounds like an exciting time!

If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about your family tree, then the Family History Forum is your chance to get some help from the experts. 

The Thunder Bay Public Library is holding its second annual Family History Forum at the Mary J.L. Black Branch Library on Saturday, October 24^th from 1-4 pm. 

This event was launched in 2014 and nobody was entirely sure what to expect in terms of public attendance; which turned out to be an unnecessary worry as the family history enthusiasts came out in droves. Based on that success and the feedback received from participants, this year’s forum is going to be even better.

Local genealogist Dave Nicholson will be the host for the afternoon’s activities. “There isn’t a specific theme for the Forum; we want to have a variety of discussions based on three concepts – technology sources for genealogy, a family historian sharing their personal research experience, and traditional records not found on the Internet.”

While commercials for ancestry websites can make it seem as simple as a couple of clicks to find your entire family tree, not all the answers can be found online. Basic family history research techniques include talking to relatives about the stories of their ancestors and working back from the present to the past, one generation a time.

The afternoon sessions include Sharing Your Family Archives Online with Sara Janes (City of Thunder Bay Archives), Using DNA Tests To Find Your Family with Clare Cook (Thunder Bay Branch – OGS), and Genealogy and the Funeral Home: What Can I Find and Where with Sheleigh Dika (Everest Funeral Home). There will be a Q&A session to wrap up the afternoon as well as a variety of door prizes for those in attendance. Light refreshments will be available.

The Library is also offering an Ancestry Library Edition database class on the same day from 11 am-12 pm, pre-registration for this class is required and space is limited. Call 684-6815 to register.

Connect with this event on Facebook to get updates leading up to the day.

Contact Jesse Roberts at jroberts@tbpl.ca for more information or with questions.

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Another Scottish Webinar

Christine Woodcock is going to present another Webinar, and this time historian and author Lucille Campey will share her extensive knowledge about the early Scots Pioneers and their impact in shaping this country - Canada.

The Webinar will be held Saturday, November 7 at 1:00 pm

To find out more about the Webinar, go to the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/events/525919520903723/  

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It  has been published on a continuous basis every Monday since April 2012!

Ta’n Weji-sqalia’tiek Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas of Nova Scotia

In 2010, the Ta’n Weji-sqalia’tiek Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas Project (formerly Pjila’si Mi’kma’ki: Mi’kmaw Place Names Digital Atlas and Website Project) was launched to document approximately 13,000 years of Mi’kmaw presence within Mi’kma’ki, the place of the Mi’kmaq, and to raise public awareness of this ancient history of eastern Canada.

They have been able to record approximnatlry 1, 500 place names, and they have translated 700 of these names and they have been geo-referenced and placed on the map.

The names were then entered into a database as the basis of the digital atlas and interactive maps featured on the website. We have also developed numerous map layers for cross-referencing physiological and cultural/historical information.

The digital atlas will directly support other Mi’kmaw activities including the development of educational products for schools and the promotion of cultural awareness about Mi’kmaw people. 

The website is http://mikmawplacenames.ca/

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Kingston Genealogical Society Branch Facebook address changes

For those who follow the news of the Kingston Genealogical Society Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society will note that the Facebook address which was reported on yesterday's Canadian Week in Review (CWR) at http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2015/10/canadian-week-in-review-19-october-2015.html has been changed to https://www.facebook.com/groups/KingstonBranchOGS  

Please note that it is a closed group, so you will have to follow instructions and apply for membership on the Join Group sign at the top of the Facebook page.  

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Canadian Week in Review 19 October 2015

I have come across the following Canadian genealogy, history and heritage websites, social media, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too.

This Week in Canadian History 

In 1841, Queen's College (now Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario) obtained a royal charter as a Presbyterian institution of higher learning. 

For more information, go to 

http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/artsci/History_of_the_University.html 

In 1914, Canada's first contingent in the First World War reached Plymouth, England.

The fleet entered Plymouth Sound off the south coast of England on the evening of 14 October 1914. Censorship about the arrival of the Canadian Armada had been so strictly controlled that the fleet was completely unexpected by the local people of Plymouth and Devonport.

To read more about this, go to http://www.greatwar.co.uk/westfront/armies/britishunits/1cdndiv.htm


Social Media

(Facebook) Kingston Genealogical Society Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society has a new Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ontgensoc/permalink/907795835980762/

Newspaper Articles

Newfoundland 

A grave discovery: Portuguese fishermen return to honour White Fleet

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/a-grave-discovery-portuguese-fishermen-return-to-honour-white-fleet-1.3266931

Forgotten grave found and restored in honour of lost fishermen

Tilt Cove, Canada's smallest town, a big draw for tourists

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/tilt-cove-newfoundland-smallest-town-1.3260204

Tucked away in a small corner of Newfoundland's Baie Verte Peninsula, the minuscule town of Tilt Cove is hiding a whole lot of history.

At first glance you would never be able to guess that this was a mining boomtown — not once, but twice — nor imagine what used to be here. 

Nova Scotia

Halifax Farmers' Market celebrates 265 years

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-farmers-market-celebrates-265-years-1.3276423

The Halifax Farmers' Market, now known as the Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market, is celebrating 265 years last weekend. They say that they are the longest running farmer's market in North America. It was established by royal decree in 1750, a year after Halifax was established itself. 

Welcome To Vonetta’s museum centre 

http://www.cumberlandnewsnow.com/News/Local/2015-10-13/article-4308092/Welcome-To-Vonetta%26rsquo%3Bs-museum-centre/1

Vonetta’s Museum Centre features Nova Scotia’s heritage and of Maritime country music.

Prince Edward Island

Anne of Green Gables characters increase visits to historic site 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/anne-of-green-gables-characters-increase-visits-to-historic-site-1.3267933

Parks Canada says there has been an increase in the visitors at the Anne of Green Gables museum because of the interactive programming and the introduction of costumed characters at the museum.

Quebec

Top 10 Places To See In Quebec

http://www.thesuburban.com/blogs/daniela_caputos_destinations/top-places-to-see-in-quebec/article_7b886d8e-7346-11e5-b2c1-331aefb27e5b.html

These are ten best places to see in Quebec!

Ontario

16 resources to help you research your Canadian ancestry

https://bangordailynews.com/2015/09/23/news/state/16-resources-to-help-you-research-your-canadian-ancestry/

The state on Maine has 16 pointers id you are looking for your Canadian ancestors. 

Manitoba

Manitoba Museum gets $10M from province for renewal

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-museum-gets-10m-from-province-for-renewal-1.3272919

The Manitoba Museum is embarking on its largest-ever renewal and received a big boost Thursday with a $10-million donation from the province.

Canadian news stories this week

October 18th was Persons Day in Canada

The decision to include women in the legal definition of "persons"u was handed down by Canada's highest court of appeal – the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of Great Britain – on October 18, 1929. This gave women the right to be appointed to the Senate of Canada. 

The five women who pursued the case have become known as the Famous Five and they are Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards.

To read more about the day, read http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/commemoration/pd-jp/index-en.html

The Famous Five information is at http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/commemoration/pd-jp/five-cinq-en.html 

October is Mi'kmaq History Month in Nova Scotia 

It was officially proclaimed in 1993 by then Premier John Savage and Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Ben Sylliboy as an initiative to promote province wide awareness about Mi'kmaq culture and heritage. 

It always starts with Treaty Day in recognition of the Treaty of 1752 that designated Oct. 1 as the date the Crown would present gifts to the Mi'kmaq as a sign of good faith.

Here is a timeline of Mi'kmaq history in Nova Scotia - 

• 12,000 years ago: Modern scientific evidence shows Aboriginal People lived in North America since at least the last major ice age and most likely crossed a land bridge over what is now the Berring Strait.

• 1500s: Mi'kmaq begin to have contact with Europeans.

• 1610: Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk becomes first indigenous North American to be baptized and becomes known as Henri Membertou.

• 1617: Mi'kmaq population is reduced from an estimated 35,000 to less than 9,000 after warriors return from Maine with disease.

• 1713: Treaty of Utrecht cedes French Acadia to England, but Mi'kmaq land claims are ignored and relations with British are strained.

• 1780s: United Empire Loyalists from United States arrive in Maritimes and outnumber the Mi'kmaq.

• 1801: Nova Scotia government creates 10 Mi'kmaq Reserves.

• 1868: Indian Act becomes law. Amendments state that Natives must give up status to become Canadian. Aboriginal ceremonies, festivals and rituals become unlawful.

• 1900: Mi'kmaq flag is raised for first time.

• 1914: More than 150 Mi'kmaq men enlist to fight in First World War.

• 1926: Mi'kmaq forced from Kings Road Indian Reserve to present-day Membertou.

• 1930-1967: Atlantic Canada's only Indian residential school operates in Shubenacadie.

• 1951: Revisions to Indian Act remove ban on performing traditional ceremonies.

• 1971: Membertou's Donald Marshall, Jr. wrongly imprisoned for murder. Freed in 1982 and receives apology and monetary compensation from province in 1990. Marshall Jr. dies in 2009.

• 1991: Donald Marshall, Sr. dies at age 66 as serving 27 years as Mi'kmaq Grand Chief.

• 1993: Newly-appointed Grand Chief Ben Sylliboy and then Nova Scotia Premier John Savage decree October as Mi'kmaq History Month

To read more about the mi’kmag culture, go to http://mikmaqhistorymonth.com/ 

And that was the week in Canadian news!

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The Archives of Ontario: doing research from a distance

On Tuesday, October the 20, 2015 from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the Gerrard-Ashdale Library, Toronto, Danielle Manning will present the talk on The Archives of Ontario: doing research from a distance. 

Danielle Manning has worked at the Archives of Ontario for over two years, first as an archivist and now as an Outreach Officer. Danielle will introduce you to some of the great key resources available to genealogists and local historians at the Archives of Ontario.

The website of the Archives of Ontario is at http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/

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The Summerside Journal is 150 years old

Culture Summerside and The Journal-Pioneer invite you to attend the public celebration of the 150th anniversary of The Summerside Journal, Sunday October 18th from 2 to 4 at the Veterans Convention Centre in Credit Union Place, 511 Notre Dame Street, Summerside, Prince Edward Island. 

Formalities and special program will begin at 2:30. Complimentary copies of the booklet Changing Times will be available as will an art exhibition inspired by 150 years of advertisements appearing in the newspaper. 

Refreshments will be served. 

Culture Summerside thanks the Department of Canadian Heritage for funding to celebrate this milestone of the community newspaper. 

To go to the newspaper, their website is http://www.journalpioneer.com/

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Indexes are being added to FamilySearch

I see where FamilySearch is now putting on the records that were indexed this summer, and among the first to appear is the vital statistics of British Columbia. 

British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993

These are death registrations including overseas casualties, delayed death registrations, and delayed registrations of Native American deaths.

There has now been 317, 454 records that have been indexed and added to the records.

The website is at https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1538285

The British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937

There has now been 18,818 records that have been indexed and added to the records.

The website is at https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1307718

Happy Researching!

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Quebec Workshop

Gwyneth Pearce, the head of publicity at the Toronto Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society has put out a call for Speakers – Quebec Workshop.

Toronto Branch is planning a one-day workshop on 16 April 2016 on Quebec family history. We are delighted that Gary Schroder, long-time President of the Quebec Family History Society, has agreed to be the keynote speaker!

We are now seeking other speakers with Quebec expertise who would like to be part of the workshop team.

You'll find our detailed call for presentations at http://torontofamilyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Call_for_Speakers_-Quebec-Family-History_Workshop_April_2016.pdf.

Please note that the deadline to submit a proposal for this workshop is Saturday 24 October 2015.

The website for the Toronto Family History Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) is http://torontofamilyhistory.org/

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Canadian Week in Review 12 October 2015

I have come across the following Canadian genealogy, history and heritage websites, social media, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too.

This Week in Canadian History

In 1920, the Canadian Air Board, a forerunner of the Royal Canadian Air Force, began its first flight across Canada. Wing Cmdr. Robert Leckie flew from Halifax to Winnipeg, arriving Oct. 11. From there, Air Commodore A. K. Tylee and three other pilots flew to Vancouver, arriving Oct. 17. Total elapsed time was 45 hours, 20 minutes for 5,488 kilometres, as opposed to 132 hours by rail.

And in 1927, the first air-mail service in Canada was inaugurated.

To find out more information, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Board_(Canada)

Social Media

(Blog) An Interesting Find on Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Records, 1760-1923 online 

http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/10/an-interesting-find-on-ontario-roman.html#ixzz3o4yzczU3

(Photos) Whitney Pier mural remembers steel plant and its workers

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/steel-plant-mural-1.3265006

(Blog) How TTC subway stations got their atypical names

http://www.blogto.com/city/2015/10/how_ttc_subway_stations_got_their_atypical_names/

Newspaper Articles

Nova Scotia 

Sinclair Inn's hidden murals offer glimpse of Acadian past

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/sinclair-inn-s-hidden-murals-offer-glimpse-of-acadian-past-1.3260666

Hidden murals in Canada's oldest surviving Acadian building may turn the walls of the museum into windows onto the past. 

Wayne Morgan helps manage the Sinclair Inn Museum in Annapolis Royal, N.S. He says the building's hidden murals lie beneath layers of peeling wallpaper.

Shearwater Aviation Museum final resting place for 1916 flag

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/shearwater-aviation-museum-flag-resting-place-1.3259117

It's a flag with a long history.And now the Union Jack that has been through war will have its final resting place at the Shearwater Aviation Museum.

A presentation for the well-worn and much loved flag was held on HMCS Sackville on Tuesday. 

Prince Edward Island 

Elmira Railway Museum on the right track

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/elmira-pei-railway-museum-increase-1.3265689

The Elmira Railway Museum saw a whopping 30 per cent increase in visitors this year, in part because the tourist attraction increased its hours. 

August alone saw a 55 per cent increase compared to the same month last year, marking the biggest increase of any of the provincially-run heritage sites.

New Brunswick

Fredericton looks at altering rules for building in heritage area

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-heritage-bylaws-meeting-1.3262042 

Fredericton is looking for ways to change the city's bylaws for developing in the St. Anne's Point Heritage Preservation Area after a subdivision on Waterloo Row prompted anger from many people in the neighbourhood. 

Ontario

My London: Visual records an eye-opener 

http://www.lfpress.com/2015/10/09/my-london-visual-records-an-eye-openerThe 

Archives of Ontario shares some of its treasures at the London Public Library later this month.

Separate sessions on Oct. 26 at the Central Library showcase Ontario photographs over a century and the legacy of CFPL-TV.

GENEALOGY WITH JANICE: Celebrating Family History Month in October

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/5952869-genealogy-with-janice-celebrating-family-history-month-in-october/

October is family history month. How will you celebrate? 

Manotiba

Manitoba RCMP #tbt photo offers look at police dog history

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-rcmp-tbt-photo-offers-look-at-police-dog-history-1.3263073

This #throwbackthursday photo posted by Manitoba RCMP is estimated to have been taken sometime in the 1940s.

The image of two dogs on a car is from the personal collection of E.B. (Ted) Bailey, a former RCMP officer who was posted to Headingley. RCMP believe Bailey, who passed away in 1991, was an early dog handler for the force.

Manitoba club goes to court after dispute over allowing women to join 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/06/manitoba-club-goes-to-court-after-dispute-over-allowing-women-to-join_n_8248692.html

A private society is heading to court hoping to settle an internal dispute over its decision to allow women to join its ranks. 

Alberta

Sculpture helps heal history

http://www.prpeak.com/articles/2015/10/07/news/doc561464df758db775444162.txt

Carver Ivan Rosypyske went to Alert Bay with his sister on his birthday last February to witness the demolition of St. Michael’s Indian Residential School, a place where his mother had been forced to spend much of her young life. 

Alberta

Maccoy Cabin approved for long term restoration

http://www.highrivertimes.com/2015/10/08/maccoy-cabin-approved-for-long-term-restoration

As a new provincially designated property, Sheppard Family Park’s historic Maccoy Cabin will receive restoration work to repair damages from the 2013 disaster.

At town council in September, it was unanimously voted that the Maccoy Cabin would be restored for long term use after two proposals were submitted regarding what restoration avenues could be taken.

Canadian news stories this week

October 12th is a day for Canadian to give thanks

It's a tradition that dates back to when Martin Frobisher gave thanks after he and his crew successfully navigated through a treacherous journey from England to the Northwest Passage. 

In genealogy terms, I am thankful that my father, in 1993, phoned me shortly after my husband and I had moved to Ottawa, to ask me if I would go to the Public Archives (the name of the Library and Archives Canada back in the olden days), to see if I could find out any more information about our family name – BARCLAY. My father was hoping that I could find something so that he could give whatever I found to our cousin, who was researching the name.

My father and I know that Andrew BARCLAY was a Loyalists who had come to Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in 1783, but that was about all we knew. 

Shortly after his phone call, I ventured to the archives, and after arriving on the third floor, I was directed to the Port Roseway Associated Loyalists, and there was Andrew Barclay's name as one of the loyalists recorded in the registry.

I subsequently read every book that I could find on the subject, and with a visit to the Shelburne County Archives and Genealogical Society, I was able to put it all together into quite a story. 

So I am thankful that an innocent phone call put me on the road to doing research for others, and my continuing interest in finding out more about Andrew BARCLAY.

And that was the week in Canadian news!

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HALLOWEEN COCKTAILS AND CULTURE

Hallowe'en notices continue!

Earlier this year, in the summer, The Rooms, which is the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador, had an open house to celebrate it's 10th anniversary.

And now they will host a HALLOWEEN COCKTAILS AND CULTURE event on Friday, October 30 from 6 - 8:30 pm and they will have a haunted flashlight tours of the Level 4 Museum Gallery with Dale Jarvis and live music by Charlie Barfoot.

Costumes optional but encouraged!

Adults (19+)

Cash bar

Tickets $15, Members $13.50

For tickets or more information contact Visitor Services at 757-8090.

The website is http://www.therooms.ca/archives/

And why is it called The Rooms? 

The Rooms was a term used by early British fishermen that they used to called the "fishing rooms". The fishing rooms were common at the seashore in every Newfoundland fishing villages. 

You can also go to http://www.therooms.ca/archives/family_history_collections.asp and see what is available as far as Vital Statistics is concerned.

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Haunted Mississauga

The 14th Annual "Haunted Mississauga" Heritage Tour evening will take place on Friday, October 16th, 2015.

Location: Streetsville Memorial Cemetery (299 Queen Street South, Streetsville), Ontario.

Tour times: 7:20pm, 7:40pm, 8:00pm, 8:20pm, 8:40pm, 9:00pm

Please book your tickets in advance as space is limited! 905-828-8411 ext.0

$5.00 for adults, $3.00 for children and seniors

This year the story is set in October of 1831.

The Home District election is set for January 2nd, 1832. William Lyon Mackenzie, the Reform leader, has been ousted from the Assembly, and there is much unrest leading into the January election. Three Streetsville locals are running in the by-election to challenge Mackenzie. They are Timothy Street, Henry Rutledge and John Church Hyde. One is a Conservative, one is a tied and true Orangeman, and one is a Free Thinker with ideas of Reblucanism and Reform.

Who will win?

The characters you will meet are personalities from Streetsville’s past. The actors are volunteers. The story is part of the history of Streetsville.

Go to http://www.heritagemississauga.com/assets/Haunted%20Mississauga%202015%20-%20Flyer.pdf to read their flyer.

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Fall courses in the Kitchener-Waterloo area

Brooke Skelton, and genealogist and a friend, sent me this information about a learning opportunity in the Kitchener-Waterloo area in southwest Ontario. It is fall courses at the Waterloo Campus of the Laurier Association for Lifelong Learning (LALL) of the Wilfred Laurier University. 

 Some examples of the courses that will be offered are - 

You’ve Got Mail: The Story of the Postcard with Rych Mills Mondays, October 19 — November 23, 12:30 — 2:20 p.m.,on the Waterloo campus. 

Before the digital age of email and text messages, the postcard was a common means of communicating to friends and family – whether you were communicating your safety from the front lines in wartime or writing from a sunny beach destination. 

This course will illustrate the history of the postcard, exploring topics such as publishing and distribution, imagery and the emergence of photography, wartime propaganda, the collecting craze, genealogy and local history, as well as the future of the postcard. Mills has authored two books - on Kitchener history, numerous articles for WHS and is the Flash from the Past columnist in each Saturday’s Waterloo Region Record. 

 The “Charming” Christian Eby: Waterloo County Medicine Man or Witch? with Joanna Rickert-Hall Wednesdays, October 21 — November 25, 9:30 — 11:20 a.m. on the Waterloo campus. 

There was a time when fear, superstition and faith were intertwined. If you were sick, you sought the services of a healer or a priest. Depending upon the outcome of the "cure" the healer may have been labelled as a witch and at one time even condemned to death. Fortunately for Christian Eby, a Mennonite healer in early 20th-century Waterloo County, he was both feared and admired.

Courses are non-credit and are intended for personal interest and self-education. Courses are offered at a cost of $70 each.

For more information on courses, and to register for the courses, go to http://legacy.wlu.ca/documents/61880/LALL_Fall_2015_Course_Brochure.pdf

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