Yesterday morning I spoke with Robin Averill of The Gaelic Hour. Great chat, and some Ottawa Valley music too.
Podcast is here, and also below:
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Floor plans and photographs of mid-century modern houses in Ottawa.
“Lost Ottawa” Facebook group
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If you’re on Facebook and you’re interested in Ottawa local history, you should definitely subscribe to “Lost Ottawa,” which bills itself as “a Facebook research community devoted to images of Ottawa and the Outouais up to the year 2000.” I…
Ottawa Valley Slang
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Growing up in Ottawa, and with an Ottawa Valley Irish background, I used to say bucko all the time (for boy, my boy, boyo, guy, dumb**se), but with very little sense whatsoever that this was a corruption of the Irish búachaill.…
The Almonte Gazette Online
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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.
Our Roots/Nos Racines: Canadian local histories
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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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A local chant, as told to me by my mother:
Perth! Perth! Get off the earth!
and let the green grass grow.
Smiths Falls! Smiths Falls! Get off the walls!
and let the pictures hang.
Perth = Perth, Lanark Co., Ontario. Smiths Falls is also in Lanark Co., Ontario.
John Vallely (1861-1935)
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John Vallely was a son of Michael Vallely and Mary Ryan. He was born in Lanark Co., Ontario in 1861, and emigrated to Grand Forks, North Dakota about 1882. In 1889 he married another Canadian emigrant to North Dakota: Anna…
“Let’s not have a sniffle…”
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…Let’s have a bloody good cry. And always remember: the longer you live, The sooner you bloody well die. My dad, dying of cancer, singing “Isn’t It Grand, Boys.” They broke the mold.
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The British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) is hosting its 19th Annual Family History Conference in Ottawa, September 20-22, 2013. The focus will be on Ireland.