“Did an operation precede death”? (Ontario civil death records)
Death records often supply interesting (and occasionally rather gruesome) details about an ancestor’s cause of death. And while the information…
Death records often supply interesting (and occasionally rather gruesome) details about an ancestor’s cause of death. And while the information…
James Michael McGlade was born at Perth (Lanark Co., Ontario) on 17 September 1905, the son of Patrick McGlade and…
The following petition is found amongst the Upper Canada Land Petitions, though it concerns a property in Lower Canada (on…
As with baptismal and marriage records, RC burial records adhered to the same formula, whether written in English or French….
I am extremely grateful to Al Lunney for sending me a copy of Alec Lunney’s “A Collection of Family and…
If you come across a marriage record which notes the granting of a dispensation of consanguinity, you should definitely sit…
On the same day. On 3 November 1866, at Ste. Anne, Calumet Island/L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet, Pontiac Co., Québec: James Cahill, who died…
When I first read the Perth Courier’s obituary (January 1941) for my great-grandmother Catherine McCarthy (Mrs. Arthur McGlade), I was…