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
HistoricPlaces.net www.historicplaces.net I checked the places around Ontario, and there are
some of interest. Besides posting where they are located, there usually is a
picture on the site of the place e.g. train stations, hotels etc
Discover your Canadian family history
and start your family tree. Find resources for all Provinces and access many
genealogy records including Census, Land and Cemetery records.
Blog
No new blogs this week
Facebook
Essex County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society (EssexOGS) www.facebook.com/EssexCountyOGS
Olive Tree
Genealogy www.facebook.com/pages/Olive-Tree-Genealogy/16127378259
Video
No
new videos this week
Newspaper
Articles
Genealogy group
will rent space in library basement www.cornwallseawaynews.com/News/2013-03-14/article-3199915/Genealogy-group-will-rent-space-in-library-basement/1A further update on a story that
was carried a couple of weeks ago by this blog. La Généalogie et archives
Saint-Laurent (GASL) will have the room in the local city library to put their archives.
How to create
your own family tree, step by step http://metronews.ca/features/who-are-you/590960/how-to-create-your-own-family-tree-step-by-step
So you
want to learn about your family history, but you don’t know where to begin.
Lesley Anderson, Content Specialist and spokesperson for Ancestry.ca has some
tips on how you can begin your genealogy journey, and she gives five steps that
she suggests.
Barrington
Street height limit increase considered: Proposal will affect Westin Nova
Scotian, Via Rail and Atlantic Superstore
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/03/15/ns-barrington-height-limit.html
The Halifax Regional Municipality is considering increasing the height limit
for several properties at the south end of Barrington Street.
Chef dyes
trademark moustache for St. Patrick's Day www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/03/17/chef-dyes-trademark-moustache-for-st-patricks-day A well known
chef in Canada, Massimo Capra, became Irish for the day. He changed his surname
to O'Capra, and dyed his moustache green!
A trek across
space and time to self-discovery http://metronews.ca/features/who-are-you/592816/a-trek-across-space-and-time-to-self-discovery Linda Kawamoto,
now Linda Reid, found a story written by a woman with the same name as her
grandmother. Was it her grandmother? Read the article and find out!
Mayor vows to
try and pass a new motion against headstone bylaw www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2013/03/12/mayor-vows-to-try-and-pass-a-new-motion-against-headstone-bylaw
Ron Eddy is hoping to head off a mounting crisis over a prospective order to
remove a Korean inscription from the back of a headstone in the St. George
Cemetery.
Rick Steves:
Museums chronicle migration to America
www.timescolonist.com/life/travel/rick-steves-museums-chronicle-migration-to-america-1.87914A column about Norwegian roots,
and Rick Steves takes a trip to the southern Norway port of Stavanger, where
there is the Norwegian Emigration Center (emigrationcenter.com). This is where the
first boats sailed with emigrants to “Amerika” in 1825.
Picture and Story of
the Week
BIFHSGO
celebrates St. Patrick’s Day http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.ca/2013/03/bifhsgo-celebrates-st-patricks-day.html A band of
hearty BIFHSGO members braved the minus temperature Saturday to march in St.
Patrick’s Day Parade in Ottawa.
The
St. Patrick’s Day parade gave them a good opportunity to advertise the Irish
Theme that will be featured at their annual conference that will be held in September in
Ottawa
See
more pictures on their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/British-Isles-Family-History-Society-of-Greater-Ottawa/149788348437126
To
keep with the Irish theme, BIFHSGO is pleased to have booked Eileen O'Duill,
CG, as a major speaker for the 19th annual conference.
John
D. Reid, and Glenn Wright was over to WDYTYA in London in February, and while there,
John interviewed Eillen, and you can listen to the interview at www.bifhsgo.ca/cpage.php?pt=62
Look
for more articles next Monday March 25th.
