I’d be interested in learning more about this case (and whether it ever got anywhere as a court case). From The Ottawa Journal, 20 October 1896, a notice that Robert and Eliza Jane Hemphill of Huntley had filed an action…
Canadian Records, Local History, Newspapers
The Almonte Gazette Online
by M.C. Moran •
Via John Reid’s Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections, the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum now offers The Almonte Gazette online, indexed and searchable from 1861 to 1989.
Military Records, Photographs
William Killeen and Lucy Armstrong
by M.C. Moran •
William Henry Killeen (1857-1904) was a son of Denis Benjamin Killeen and Ellen O’Brien, and a grandson of Denis Killeen and Mary Ahearn. In November 1885, he married Lucy Armstrong (1863-1956), a daughter of James Armstrong and Bridget Kelly, and…
Canadian Records, Local History
Our Roots/Nos Racines: Canadian local histories
by M.C. Moran •
Our Roots/Nos Racines is an online collection of Canadian local histories in both English and French. Well worth searching if you are looking for ancestors in Canada. I have certainly found a few good leads in a couple of local…
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Ancestry.ca is offering free access to its Canadian Military Records until November 12.
Canadian Records, Land Records
“she & her infant family are left totally destitute”: the Widow Hourigan petitions the Crown (part I)
by M.C. Moran •
LAC’s Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865) database is an index to the petitions, with the actual (that is to say, the digitized microforms of the actual) petitions found elsewhere at the LAC site. Somewhat annoyingly, there is no direct link…