February 2025 – Ottawa Valley Irish

The Sad Death of Patrick Donahue

Canada, Death and Burial, Ireland, Local History, Newspapers, Occupations18 February 2025by M.C. Moran

Mattawa Hospital ‘A very large floating population of men’ In an 1883 report of his inspection of the Mattawa Hospital, which he had visited on July 23, 1882, W.T. O’Reilly noted that hundreds of men passed through Mattawa “in the…

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Newspaper “Jollies”

East Grand Forks, Grand Forks, Marriage Records, Migration, Newspapers13 February 2025by M.C. Moran

Or, The Marriage of Michael J. Sullivan Michael Joseph Sullivan and Helen Elizabeth Moran Note: Basic genealogical information for this couple can be found here. In brief: the Canadian-born Michael “Mike” Joseph Sullivan (1859-1951), son of Timothy Sullivan and Hanora…

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