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
Biggar Branch,
Saskatoon Genealogical Society http://biggargenealogy.wikifoundry.com The website says that the “Society members have
recorded and indexed cemeteries in the R.M.'s of Biggar and Glenside, and the
cemeteries at Landis, Cando and Lett (Rosemount). The Biggar Branch has
published a list of births, deaths and marriages from The Independent Biggar,
SK for the period 1913 to 1950 and they are available for purchase. Other
indexing projects have included: obituaries from The Independent -1984
to 2006, undertaker records, census records, Canadian National Railway
seniority lists and early school registers”. Note: These indexes are not
online.
Barnardo’s Homes http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/who_we_are/history/barnardos_homes.htm The website says “Barnardo’s ran hundreds of children’s homes across the UK from Thomas Barnardo’s day until the 1970’s. We don’t run orphanages and children’s homes anymore. However, this is a complete directory of all the homes and what has happened to them”. Note: I have used this list while doing research, and have found it to be a good list to locate Barnardo’s homes in the UK.
Blogs
Genealogy
Home Children in Canada http://coolenconnections.hubpages.com/hub/Genealogy-Home-Children-in-Canada
This is a new site, provides an excellent list of Home Children websites in
Canada.
Gone Researching: Genealogy experiences, thoughts, ... and
we'll see where we go with this http://goneresearching.blogspot.com
This new blogger is following family line in Ontario, among others.
Facebook,
Videos, You Tube
Photos: New Brunswick’s Internment Camp B70 http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Brunswick+Internment+Camp+photos/8746644/story.htmlThis is a photo archives of Internment Camp B70, located in Ripples, N.B. It housed more than 700 Jews in the early months of the Second World War.
Newspapers
Articles of the Week
Ottawa is a work in progress http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Ottawa+work+progress/8842977/story.html
Ottawa’s Carleton University professor Andrew Cohen write about the choice of Ottawa
as the capital of Canada, and how so many people disagreed with Queen Victoria’s
choice in 1857.
http://www.pressherald.com/opinion/to-learn-more-about-maine-make-the-pilgrimage-to-quebec_2013-08-29.html
The Maine Sunday Telegram suggests a trip to Quebec should be on
every Mainer's must-do list.
Blackberry tea honours group's wartime heritage http://www.canada.com/Blackberry+honours+group+wartime+heritage/8883306/story.html Read about how the British Columbia Women's Institute helped the Second World War effort by canning fruit and vegetables and sending them to Britain.
British Home
Children enhanced Canada’s mosaic http://www.sackvilletribunepost.com/Opinion/Columnists/2011-12-07/article-2827996/----British-Home-Children-enhanced-Canada%26rsquo%3Bs-mosaic/1Read
about how a British Home Child stayed in the grandparents home of writer Bill
Hamilton, and how he was able to trace her voyage back to Liverpool, England.
Doors Open in Ontario this fall http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/Canada/Ontario/2013/09/04/21096946.html
See the lineup of the Doors Open in
Ontario this fall.
Story of the
Week
Some
land records have been digitized
(Based on a bi-weekly column I write for the Vankleek Hill’s The Review. Parts of the column appeared on August 28, 2013)
Canadiana.org is a Canadian company in Ottawa which is preserving
Canada's published history and some of these non-indexed records will be – free! Over
the next ten years, it will work with 40 institutions, such as libraries, the
Library and Archives Canada, and archives, to “identify, catalogue, digitize and
store documentary heritage—books, newspapers, periodicals, images and
nationally-significant archival materials—in specialized research databases”.
The part of Canadiana.org which
interests me is the Heritage Project at http://heritage.canadiana.ca.
The Heritage Project is going to take some
of Canada’s most popular archival collections, such as 60-million pages of FREE
primary-source microfilm images from the 1600s to the mid-1900s.
I have read the list and I am impressed!
What would have taken me years to find these documents in the different
institution across the country, will be appearing online right in my own
computer.One of the first projects that they have done is the Heir and Devisee Commission of the Upper
Canada (Ontario) Land Records.
Records can include
(although not always) affidavits, bonds, location certificates, powers of
attorney, orders-in-council, copies of wills, mortgages, deeds of sale, and testimonial
letters.
The digitized copies of the microfilm
reels onsite appear in the same order as on the microfilm reels themselves.
Remember, unfortunately, there is NO index by name.
Alternatively, the records are
arranged by district, then by type of document, then in chronological, alphabetical,
or numerical order.
The
list of microfilm rolls are on http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_205142,
just click on the reel you want to view, and it is there for you to research.
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 on 16 September, 2013
