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Directories

“Now comes Thos. L. Ryan…”

Census, Death and Burial, Directories, Legal, Migration11 April 2017by M.C. Moran

Where did Michael James McGlade Reside? Sometimes you can’t find a person, no matter how carefully and thoroughly you look. And sometimes you find the same person at more than one address (and in more than one census return) at…

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Occupation: Married Woman (Canada Voters Lists, 1935-1980)

Canadian Records, Census Substitutes, Directories, Occupations, Oral History6 June 2014by M.C. Moran

During the 1930s Alex and Annie operated a small grocery shop in their home on Armstrong St. In the depths of the depression my father, who was a railroader, got very little work and we were often short of cash….

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Red are brick, blue are stone: Goad’s Insurance Plan of Ottawa

Directories, Maps17 December 2012by M.C. Moran

My paternal grandmother Mary Catherine Lahey was probably born at 308 Gloucester Street in Ottawa. Or, if she was not actually born at 308 Gloucester, certainly she lived at this address from her infancy into the second decade of her life….

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Ottawa city directories online

Directories5 December 2012by M.C. Moran

There are a number of Ottawa city directories online at archive.org.

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Where did my great-grandparents meet?

Catholic Records, Directories, Occupations5 December 2012by M.C. Moran

Here is my great-grandmother Anna (“Annie”) Maria Benton in the Ottawa city directory of 1895-6:1 Miss Annie Benton, dressmaker, lodger at 103 Cambridge St. The Ottawa city Directory, 1895-6: embracing an alphabetical list of all business firms and private citizens,…

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Who Baptized/Married/Buried Your RC Ancestors?

Catholic Records, Directories7 October 2011by M.C. Moran

A preliminary, partial and incomplete list of the priests who served the various 19th-century Ottawa Valley area Roman Catholic missions and parishes. I will add more names, dates, and parishes as I come across (and/or organize) more information (which info….

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John Alexander Moran Photo Gallery:

  • Rosemary and John Moran
  • Rosemary and John Moran, at Tunney's Pasture, by the Ottawa River
  • John Alexander Moran, Ottawa (Armstrong St.?), c. 1937.
  • John and Rosemary, in front of Carleton Tavern
  • St. Patrick's Collegiate
  • John Alexander Moran, age 15
  • L. Lahey, John Alexander Moran, and Rosemary Moran
  • Frobisher Bay, mid-1950s
  • At a party, Ottawa, early 1960s, with cousin Orville Lahey in the background
  • Boxing Day wedding, 26 December 1963: John Alexander Moran and Catherine Frances McGlade
  • In the Canadian Rockies, summer 1967
  • At the convent of the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul, Kingston, ON, ca. 1976.
  • Johnny's seafood chowder, Ogunquit, ME, mid-1980s.
  • Johnny's Mystery Tour: Sea-Faring Edition. Somewhere off the coast of New Hamsphire, 1992.
  • On his way out to canvass for cancer research funds, September 2010
  • In hospital, with grandson Emmet visiting, June 2012

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