A Post-Operative Fatality People used to be terrified of entering the hospital for an operation, and for good reason. While going under the surgeon’s knife would hopefully cure you, there was a not insignificant chance that it might instead kill…
Continue reading →I am looking for any living descendants of Margaret (Ryan) Lemieux (1896-1961), daughter of Thomas Ryan and Elizabeth Leveille, and wife of Lorenzo Lemieux. Margaret Ryan had three known children, all daughters. On July 24, 1915, at Misericordia Hospital, Ottawa,…
Continue reading →Or, The Marriage of Michael J. Sullivan Michael Joseph Sullivan and Helen Elizabeth Moran Note: Basic genealogical information for this couple can be found here. In brief: the Canadian-born Michael “Mike” Joseph Sullivan (1859-1951), son of Timothy Sullivan and Hanora…
Continue reading →Edward Francis “Frank” Finnerty was born at Arnprior, Renfrew Co., Ontario on January 7, 1885, the fourth of the nine known children of John Finnerty and Catherine Benton. He was baptized on January 9, 1885 (St. John Chrysostom, Arnprior), with…
Continue reading →I have lost the contact info for the reader who contacted me in April 2014, with a query about William Fitzgerald and his wife Ellen, who emigrated from Ireland to Hastings Co., Ontario. But: I have recently heard from someone…
Continue reading →From 1852, there was a Catholic mission at Fitzroy Harbour (Fitzroy township, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada). A stone church was built in 1861,1 but the mission did not become the independent parish of St. Michael until 1917. The Fitzroy Harbour Mission…
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