I have come across the following Canadian websites, social media websites, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too.
Social Media
My Ancestors in Genealogy
http://adventuresingenealogy.wordpress.com/tag/canadian-research
An 1812 cannon replica was to arrive at the Ermatinger·Clergue National Historic Site on Wednesday, April 30. The working replica, to be housed in the 1812 Gallery in the new Heritage Discovery Centre, will be used for re-enactments and special events. (This was reported by Gail Dever).
Negro Brook Road should be renamed, say area residents: Rural route used to be named after the 'N-word'
Residents of a small rural community in south central New Brunswick are pushing to change the name of their street, called Negro Brook Road. A Google search has come up with 36 other places in Canada with the N-word in their name.
Historic Moncton High School put up for sale: Department of Transportation and Infrastructure values downtown property at $1M
Electric transit has returned to Winnipeg for the first time since the city's trolley car rolled into history in 1965.
A tree of Moss
A family history book has been written by Mac Moss from Eastport, Newfoundland called Mosses of Bonavista Bay and Beyond. It is available on
www.blurb.ca in print and PDF format.
Getting to the root of it
The proposed development, a 500,000-square-foot, twin-tower development spanning the block bounded by Granville, George, Hollis and Duke streets and despite concerns raised by the heritage advisory committee, the municipality’s design review committee approved the 22nd Commerce Square development.
Playing with history
Read a moving account of the Ypes Memorial in France, and of a Canadian soldier who died there - William John Howe
'Book of Negroes' films in Nova Scotia
The TV mini-series,
The Book of Negroes, is being filmed in Nova Scotia, and from what I hear, some of it will be shot in Shelburne (my hometown), just a short distance from Birchtown, where is located the Black History Heritage Society
http://www.blackloyalist.com.
Story of the Week
The Ontario Genealogical Society Conference
The Society held its annual Conference this year, and it was at Brock University in St. Catharine’s, near Niagara Falls.
A pall fell over the Conference with the death of Ontario genealogist Brian Gilchrist on May the 1st, and since he was scheduled to deliver the plenary speech, at the conference, a memorial speech gave it on his behalf.
This was the first conference where Social Media was formerly addressed. It has been partly addressed in the past, but this year, Steve Fulton and his crew really put both feet into the pool, as it were, and the Conference was off to the races.
A Google+ Hangout On Air was held at 8 o’clock in the morning on Saturday the 3rd of May, and it was good to hear the panel (Chris Paton (British GENES), Marian Press, Tony Bandy, Kirsty Gray and Daniel Horowitz (MyHeritage), and it was hosted by John D. Reid, blogger of the Anglo-Celtic Roots) discuss the subject. It remind me of the Roots Tech panel of a couple of years ago when panelists were asked what genealogy was going to be like in five years from now, and there were many of the same answers.
Unfortunately, one couldn’t hear all of it, because it crashed after 38 minutes, so I don’t know if my question ‘How has social media changed Canadian genealogy’ was ever asked, and if it was, we never heard the answer.
Some of the reports from the conference were on various blogs and Facebook pages –
After initial missteps, the OGS put on their new website this past week. It is quite a change from the last version, but it fills the bill.
Reminder: Check the Canadian Week in Review next 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 May 12, 2014.
