Emmett and Donny: A Remembrance
Emmett and his brother Donny served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Donny’s plane was shot down; and he spent time as a POW in a camp in Germany. [When my dad was a kid, he…
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BBC: ‘Pioneers boast high fertility, say scientists’
The BBC reports on a demographic study based on the parish records of Charlevoix and Saguenay Lac Saint-Jean, Québec: The towns not only boast dairy farms, charming villages and sandy beaches but some of the best ever-kept marriage records –…
Continue reading →Translating French Records: Canadian Census Returns
Canadian census records might be recorded in English, in French, or in a combination of both languages. Here’s an example of a French-English combination, from the 1901 census of Ottawa (see right; click thumbnail preview to enlarge). This is the…
Continue reading →James Ingram: Home Child
Found in the household of John Killeen in the 1901 census of Torbolton township, Carleton County (Ontario, Carleton, Torbolton, pp. 12-13, family 98): James Ingram, male, white, Orphan, single, date of birth 15 Nov 1887, age 14, born England u…
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