Friday, March 6, 2015

Toronto Time Capsule online



Metroland Media, a newspaper company in Ontario, has launched a new history project, complete with stories, columns and resources called Toronto Time Capsule

This online treasure of columns, articles and resources will be dedicated to Toronto’s history and  genealogy. This collection bring Toronto's history to life.

On the site, you’ll find these sections -

- In ‘Flashback’ you can peruse articles on heritage news and events written by Metroland Media news staff.

- In ‘Local Tales’ read interesting columns from local historical associations and expert historians.

- In ‘Genealogy’ you’ll find insider tips from local genealogists and resources to help you with family history research.

As the project grows, so do the opportunities for the public to contribute. They want local historical groups, heritage groups, and genealogical socities to contribute.

Anyone wishing to contribute can email gpeacock@insidetoronto.com

Go to the site at www.insidetoronto.com/history


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Findmypast has just gone FREE for the weekend!


 
 
Just received word that Findmypast has just gone free for the weekend!

 
From now until midday on Monday, March 9th (GMT), they are giving you the chance to bring your past to life for FREE, with unlimited access to over 2-billion records from all over the world on Findmypast.
 
Throughout our FREE Weekend, you’ll be able to access everything you need to build an incredible family tree, including: 
    Census records
    Birth, marriage and death records
    Travel and migration records
    Military records
    Crime and punishment records, and much more, all absolutely free.
 
There is no need to do anything to your account to get started this weekend, just sign in as normal and you’ll be able to explore our record sets from around the world.
To find out how you can get the most from our Free Weekend visit findmypast.co.uk/freeweekend
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Historic train and train stations in Mississauga, Ontario




Kathy Baker, a member from the Halton-Peel Genealogical Society of the Ontario Genealogical Society sent in a newspaper article about the train stations that were built on the Mississauga line at the turn of the 20th century.

In 1856, the Great Western Railway was completed though Port Credit and Clarkson, connecting Toronto and Hamilton.

The article says ‘The railways were built through historic Mississauga: the Grand Trunk Railway arrived through Malton in 1854, which allowed Malton to develop into a major wheat exporting centre, and the Credit Valley Railway in 1878-81, which was built through Cooksville, Erindale and Streetsville. The last railway, of sorts, to come was the Toronto-Guelph Radial Railway, which operated from1917-1931’.

Read the rest of the story on http://www.insauga.com/historic-train-stations-in-mississauga

The website of the Halton-Peel Genealogical Society is at http://www.haltonpeel.ogs.on.ca/

Their Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/groups/774317655963454/



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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Dear Myrt’s Beginning Genealogy - Sessions 6 & 7



As I promised my blog on 06 January 2014 at http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2015/01/beginning-genealogy-study-group.html, I watched Dear Myrt’s Beginning Genealogy Session 6 and 7 yesterday. I will continue to watch the rest of the study group as it proceeds.
 
The top two things that were discussed in Sessions 5 and 6 were -
  1. Session 5 - How reliable are the documents we use? How reliable are newspapers documents vs date of birth documents? See how Dear Myrt explains the difference – and there is a difference. She uses the clothes line graphic to describe the documents. 
  2. Session 6 - The second session was a case study in conflicting evidence. This was an interesting session. Dear Myrt took the evidence of one of her listeners, and went through the exercise of testing the evidence. If you don’t listen to any session, you should listen to this one. You will see why professional genealogists are so particular about the evidence they are given by the casual genealogist to research.  
The website for Session 7 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqS2BCu5IQU
   


Session 3 - http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2015/01/dear-myrts-beginning-genealogy-session-3.html

 

 
Remember to make yourself a member of Dear Myrt’s Genealogy Community before watching the YouTube Google+ Hangout on Air at https://plus.google.com/communities/104382659430904043232
 


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Pictures of First World War Valcartier Camp, Quebec on Flickr



The Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has put pictures of the First World War soldiers stationed at Valcartier Camp, Quebec on Flickr. The LAC says that - 
 
‘With a small army of approximately 3,000 soldiers, a small navy, and some militia units, Canada was able to enlist about 35,000 men in a matter of a few months. They were stationed at Valcartier Camp situated northwest of Québec City for initial training and formed into battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and into a division—the 1st Canadian Division.
 
Comprising 31,000 men, the Division was sent overseas by convoy for further training at Salisbury Plain in England where it continued training through the winter of 1914, and was finally sent to France in February 1915’. 
 
 


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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Quebec Family History Society – Video

Three members of the executive - Gary Schroder, Deborah Robertson and Kelley O'Rourke – of the the Quebec Family History Society (QFHS) has made a YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgOYA6QtXec about the Conference which they will be holding on June 19, 29, and 21, 2015 at McGill University, Montreal.

Already, there have been over 100 viewers of the video, so that shows that there is interest in the Conference.

If you are interested in Conference 2015, you can go to http://www.qfhs.ca/cpage.php?pt=174 to see the programme, the accommodation, the Genealogical Resource Fair, and the registration package.



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UPDATE: OGS Conference – Interview No 4



Shirley Sturdevant, former president of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) has interviewed Dave Obee LLD (University of British Columbia) from Victoria, British Columbia. He will be a speaker at the OGS Conference to be held in Barrie, Ontario from May 29th to May 31st, 2015.

He will be participating in the Saturday morning panel discussion and be presenting lectures entitled A Sense of Place and Time, Western Canada by Rail, and From Eastern Europe to Canada.

Dave is the editor-in-chief of the Times Colonist newspaper. He is also the author of twelve books, including guides to Canadian immigration records and census records. He is a columnist for Internet Genealogy and Family Chronicle, and serves on the board of Canada’s History Society. 

To view the YouTube interview, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5932gCFc5Ig


And to review the other interviews on this blog, you can go to the following websites -

Interview No 1 with Thomas MacEntee and Dr.Janet Few at http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2015/02/update-ogs-conference-interviews.html






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