In addition to birthplace and religion, one of the most genealogically useful bits of information that the Canadian census might povide is that of the ethnic origin (“Origin” in 1871 and 1881; “Racial or tribal origin” in 1901 and 1911)…
Continue reading →When I first read the Perth Courier’s obituary (January 1941) for my great-grandmother Catherine McCarthy (Mrs. Arthur McGlade), I was puzzled to read that she was survived by, amongst other people, a sister named Miss Mary Mahoney. Miss (as in,…
Continue reading →Browsing through 19th-century death records reminds me of why I support universal childhood immunization. From one page of the Ontario civil registration of deaths for Huntley township, Carleton Co.: 6 deaths, all of them children; one from scarlet fever, five…
Continue reading →My great-grandfather John James Lahey, teamster for the Kingsbury Ice Company. Son of John Lahey and Margaret Jane Killeen; and husband of Bridget Loreto Killeen (daughter of Patrick Killeen and Bridget Galligan). With four of his five daughters. From left…
Continue reading →My maternal grandfather John Eugene McGlade (1900-1964), son of Arthur Joseph McGlade and Catherine Hanora McCarthy; and Buster Brown (c. 1904), comic strip creation of R.F. Outcault: I’m quite struck by the uncanny resemblance, and my grandfather wasn’t even born…
Continue reading →One of the most useful bits of information that the Canadian census can supply is that of the religious affiliation of your ancestor(s). This is worth knowing not only as an interesting and sociologically significant detail about the life of…
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