A fellow genealogist has just written to me to let me know that the 1921 Canada Census may
be released by the Library and Archives Canada today or tomorrow.
A daily blog about Canadian genealogy, heritage, and history
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Dog Days of Summer Sale!
This exciting notice just came into the office -
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(1-800-361-5168).
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
FamilySearch.org reaches 100,000 mark
FamilySearch has announced a milestone in its collection of Family History Books.
One hundred thousand books have now been scanned by the
partnership of the Family History Library, Allen County Public Library, and
several other important family history libraries in the world.
These books are online and available to search and use on the
FamilySearch.org website. You can reach the collection by clicking Search
and then Books or by simply clicking the link above.
The majority of the books online are family histories, with a
smaller portion made up of cemetery records, local and county histories,
genealogy magazines, and how-to-books, gazetteers, and medieval histories and
pedigrees.
These valuable aids are viewed by more than 100,000 people a month.
To view the books, go to https://books.familysearch.org/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1375809771058&vid=FHD_PUBLIC&fromLogin=true
Protecting Ontario’s cemeteries
Have you read this invitation from the OGS?
“Do you have a GPS system? Would you like to assist the Ontario Genealogical Society and the Ontario Historical Society in protecting Ontario’s cemeteries? If you do, then we have the job for you!
This is what you can do to help.
The Registrar of Cemeteries requires accurate location information to help identify the cemeteries that are not registered. If you pass an entrance to a cemetery in your travels, could you record the GPS location? We are asking you to be especially mindful of the county and township where the cemetery is located. Therefore, when you send the information to the Society, we kindly request that you list the following information:
• The name of the Cemetery
• The County in which the cemetery is located, if known (i.e., Durham, Niagara, Carleton etc.)
• If possible, the Historical township (as listed on the OGS Ontario Cemetery Locator),
• The street name
• And of course, the GPS co-ordinates
Some of our volunteers have advised us that they take the GPS readings at the entrance of the cemetery as this provides the most accurate location information.
To date we know of 12 Riverside Cemeteries around the province, 48 St. John’s Anglican Cemeteries and 11 Zion Cemeteries just to name a few. Don’t worry if you find that a cemetery has been registered, someone else will have the benefit of your work”.
All GPS information you gather may be forwarded to cemeteries@ogs.on.ca
The OGS web site is at www.ogs.on.ca/index.php
The OHS web site is at www.ontariohistoricalsociety.ca
“Do you have a GPS system? Would you like to assist the Ontario Genealogical Society and the Ontario Historical Society in protecting Ontario’s cemeteries? If you do, then we have the job for you!
This is what you can do to help.
The Registrar of Cemeteries requires accurate location information to help identify the cemeteries that are not registered. If you pass an entrance to a cemetery in your travels, could you record the GPS location? We are asking you to be especially mindful of the county and township where the cemetery is located. Therefore, when you send the information to the Society, we kindly request that you list the following information:
• The name of the Cemetery
• The County in which the cemetery is located, if known (i.e., Durham, Niagara, Carleton etc.)
• If possible, the Historical township (as listed on the OGS Ontario Cemetery Locator),
• The street name
• And of course, the GPS co-ordinates
Some of our volunteers have advised us that they take the GPS readings at the entrance of the cemetery as this provides the most accurate location information.
To date we know of 12 Riverside Cemeteries around the province, 48 St. John’s Anglican Cemeteries and 11 Zion Cemeteries just to name a few. Don’t worry if you find that a cemetery has been registered, someone else will have the benefit of your work”.
All GPS information you gather may be forwarded to cemeteries@ogs.on.ca
The OGS web site is at www.ogs.on.ca/index.php
The OHS web site is at www.ontariohistoricalsociety.ca
Monday, August 5, 2013
Canadian Week in Review 05 August 2013
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
Eagle River History http://eagleriverhistory.ca Eagle River, Ontario is located in Northwestern Ontario, and the origin
of town goes back to the late 1800s.
The website says that “The town has a varied background including being
a Canadian Pacific Railway stop for coal and water in the steam engine period.
Logging, power generation, tourism are some of the other principal
mainstays of the town”.
Blogs
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Canadian
History Association Blog (CHA) www.cha-shc.ca/en/Other_useful_links_68/0/2.html
The site has a list of all Canadian historical blogs in the country, and an Historian Database, where historians put in their profile, so that you
may contact them if they are researching the same area as you.
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Facebook,
Videos, You Tube
Newspapers
Articles of the Week
Social
media buffs help find heirs of property lost in Holocaust on the Internet www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/social-media-buffs-help-find-heirs-of-property-lost-in-holocaust-on-the-internet/article13472564
Read how Gilad Japhet, CEO and founder of Israel-based MyHeritage.com is helping descendants claim their property lost in the Holocaust.
The dark history of the Old Prison of
Trois-Rivieres is brought to light in guided tours www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/dark+history+Prison+Trois+Rivieres+brought+light+guided+tours/8666219/story.html A glimpse into early penal life in Canada
NovaStory…bringing light to your stories www.ngnews.ca/Community/2013-07-28/article-3331396/NovaStorybringing-light-to-your-stories/1
Read how the Pictou County, Nova Scotia library, and how they have an online database of maps,
histories, and cemeteries.
Fire Destroys
Canadian Library, Archive http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/07/industry-news/fire-destroys-canadian-library-archive
Read how the Lac-Mégantic library, destroyed by fire in the train
derailment a month ago, will move to a new facility in November.
Heritage designation sought for St. Charles Church in Vanier www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/preserve+Charles+Church+Vanier+local+resident+applied/8723095/story.html
St.
Charles Church in Vanier may soon be on the market as a "tear down" to make way
for condos. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa says that the church lacks
historic value, a Vanier resident is seeking heritage designation for the
105-year-old building.
Welcome to Internment Camp B70, a little known piece of New Brunswick's
history www.theprovince.com/news/Welcome+Internment+Camp+little+known+piece+Brunswicks/8745969/story.html
Read the article about Camp B70, a internment camp for 700 Jewish people during
the Second World War.
Gore Park buildings likely to receive heritage
status, councillor says hwww.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/07/23/hamilton-gore-park-heritage-building-status.html
Hamilton industrial neighbourhood most likely will receive Heritage Status
Story of the
Week
Operation Husky
2013
In
July and August of 1943, 25,000 Canadian soldier took part in the liberation
of Sicily. My uncle, Perley Arnold BARCLAY, was a member
of the 1st Canadian Division that landed in Sicily in July that year.
Operation
Husky has been formed to help honour the memory of those people who died in the
operation, and they have definite plans to remember the liberation of Sicily.
They
have a new war
memorial to the memory the Canadians who landed there on that date 70 years
earlier, and they are looking for support to erect markers to the men who dies there. Each one of the markers will carry the name of a soldier who
died there.
In so doing, they feel that they can “visually
represent the loss suffered by so many Canadian families in the liberation of
Sicilian soil while funding the legacy initiatives”.
There
are videos onsite at www.operationhusky2013.ca/latest-news/the-latest-videos
For
more information, go to http://www.operationhusky2013.ca
Reminder: Check out
Canadian Week in Review every Monday for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and
History news in Canada. It’s the ONLY news blog of its kind in country! The
next post will be posted 11 August, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Canadian Week in Review
Reminder: Check out Canadian Week in Review every Monday
for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and History news in Canada. It’s the
ONLY news blog of its kind in country!
New workshop at Toronto
They are planning a full day of lectures on
Saturday, 26 October on Tracing Forward – Searching for Relatives in Recent
Times – a day designed to provide researchers with new ideas, strategies
and tools to help them trace members of their expanded family trees, people who
might still be alive or recently deceased.
This is a brand-new workshop topic for Toronto
Branch and we’re quite excited about it – we expect to have program and
registration details available on our website in the very near future.
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