The
Quebec Family History Society has recently released its Volume 35 Number 2
issue of Connections.
In
this issue, there are a number of pieces that are of interest, for example, the
article entitled The Mintram Family: Barnardo’s and The Titanic Connection
which tells the story of how William Mintram, a Titanic survivor, killed his wife, and three of their children wound up in
Canada after having been taken in by Barnardo’s Home in London.
The
interesting point about this article is the description that Walter (William’s
son-in-law) gave of the sinking of the Titanic. I had never read such an
account before.
In
the article Streetcars Named Tragedies, Sandra Belliveau writes about two
people in her family who were impacted by streetcars in Montreal – a stranger
whom her grandmother Ethel Saunders helped, and subsequently received a
commendation, and her paternal great-grandfather, William Stuart, who was
killed on August 11, 1911.
In
the last article entitled Victoria Bridge and the Irish of Montreal, Dawn Miller
Quellette gives the linkage between the building of the Victoria Bridge across
the St. Lawrence River, and the famous Black Stone Monument to the Irish
immigrants was dedicated in 1859.
This
journal is also a welcome sight when it arrives because of all of the
information it contains. There is an additional article on the British Home Children,
looking for obituaries, and a What Was News to Your Ancestors.
If
you wish to know more about QFHS, you can go to www.qfhs.ca
