The Almonte Gazette Online
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.
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Our Roots/Nos Racines: Canadian local histories
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…
Continue reading →Canadian Military Records at Ancestry
Ancestry.ca is offering free access to its Canadian Military Records until November 12.
Continue reading →“she & her infant family are left totally destitute”: the Widow Hourigan petitions the Crown (part I)
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…
Continue reading →1921 Census of Canada now indexed (at Ancestry.ca)
Great news for census geeks and other researchers: the 1921 Census of Canada has been indexed by Ancestry, and is now searchable by name (and by several other fields, including birth year and location). I just found out a couple…
Continue reading →Indexing of 1921 Census of Canada
Ancestry.ca is currently reporting “11 days til’ 1921!” I take it this means 11 days until the 1921 Census is indexed and searchable by name.
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