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The Sad Death of Patrick Donahue

The Sad Death of Patrick Donahue

Canada, Death and Burial, Local History, Newspapers, Occupations18 February 2025by M.C. Moran

Mattawa Hospital ‘A very large floating population of men’ In an 1883 report of his inspection of the Mattawa Hospital, which he had visited on July 23, 1882, W.T. O’Reilly noted that hundreds of men passed through Mattawa “in the…

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Heritage Passages Site to be Shut Down

Heritage Passages Site to be Shut Down

Canadian History, Canadian Records, Local History, Occupations13 June 2022by M.C. Moran

Heritage Passages: Bytown and the Rideau Canal will soon be shut down. Many sections of the site are already deadlinked. A message on the website currently reads: This site will be shut down as of Monday July 4, 2022. Ce…

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Memories of the Morans

Memories of the Morans

Canada, Local History, Stories31 May 2022by M.C. Moran

By Emmett Patrick Sloan Emmett Patrick Sloan (1920-2007), RCAF pilot and WWII veteran, was the son of John Percival (‘Percy’) Sloan and Mary Lillian Fagan, and a descendant, through his mother’s side of the house, of James Moran and Margaret…

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Gillespie family history

Local History, Migration16 September 2017by M.C. Moran

Norma Gillespie is researching her Gillespie ancestors, who originally came from Screeby, Co. Tyrone (but very near the border with Co. Fermanagh; and in the McCabe List, William Gillespie gave his townland and county of origin as Screeby, Fermanagh). William…

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Carleton Tavern history

Local History, Oral History, Photographs10 August 2015by M.C. Moran

I was very interested to read Dave Allston’s 80 years of history at the Carleton Tavern (Kitchissippi Times). The Moran family that he references is none other than my own: The Morans immediately converted the house back into a grocery…

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Ottawa Passé & Présent/Ottawa Past & Present

Local History, Maps29 May 2014by M.C. Moran

Ottawa Passé & Présent/Ottawa Past & Present is a remarkable website: an interactive blog which juxtaposes photographs from Ottawa’s past with photographs from the Ottawa of today. Here, for example, is 96 to 102 Wellington Street, in 1938 and in…

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