Found in the household of James Quinn and his wife Mary Ann Vallely in the 1891 census of Lanark (Lanark North, Ontario, p. 33, family no. 140): Dickens, Lizzie, female, age 14, Orphan, Country of Birth Eng [England] Note the…
Continue reading →Found in the household of the widowed Michael Vallely in the 1891 census of Lanark (Ontario, Lanark North, p. 34, family no. 144): Dickison, Wm [William], male, age 16, Orphan, Country of Birth Eng [England] William Dickison’s religion is listed…
Continue reading →Library and Archives Canada has a handy List of Abbreviations Used in Military Service Files.
Continue reading →When Rose Ann Muriel St. Jean married Max Glatt at a Catholic church in Ottawa,1 the couple had to obtain “une dispense de disparité de culte” (a dispensation for [the impediment of] disparity of worship): The reason for this dispensation…
Continue reading →Last Remembrance Day I posted a brief remembrance of Emmett Patrick Sloan and Donald Michael Sloan. I’ve since come across a couple of brief but interesting newspaper notices relating to the two brothers. These I discovered through a search of…
Continue reading →Available online at Library and Archives Canada: Veterans Death Cards: First World War. Here is the card for Charles Alexander Sullivan, son of James Edward Sullivan and Anna (“Annie”) Moran:
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