Forum: Canada Genealogy

Can anyone decipher the occupation of these two young ladies?? (far right column). Whatever it was, they were working on their own account and reportedly earning $480/year. They were living in Montreal. http://s1059.photobucket.com/ albums/t440/Mary_Anne18/ (District 175, sub-district a-48,...

In 1919 2 brothers originally from Canada married in Massachussetts. Their names were Alexander C. Macdonald born about 1893 and John D. Macdonald born about 1877. Why am I interested in these 2 men? The older brother went to the U.S. in 1893 and the younger went in 1916. They both surfaced...

Is anyone else having difficulty accessing the Ontario Cemetery search? I can get anything on the page except the cemetery search. I keep getting "Sorry. Your IP is blocked". I don't know if it's this 'drat-it' windows7 hitch or something else I haven't messed with. Have asked on the help line...

I`m trying to find some official source information on my grand uncle John Clark Born 1859 in Quebec, Canada. Found him on a Canada East Census 1861 with his parents Henry & Catherine, but cant find his actual birth. Colin

Born Sept 9 1857. I have his marriage to Rose Anna Lane on Sept 18 1877. Now here's the curious thing. No parents names of either one of them. Entry merely says "dead". Was that normal? I would have thought that the parents names would be there, whether deceased or not.

To all of you who have done the ancestor search at the Library and Archives Canada site, you may have had results for the Upper Canada Land Petitions (1763-1865). www dot collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/upper-canada-land/index-e.html The index record will typically include information...

I am trying to find out when The family of John Mogg and Elizabeth Taylor came to Ontario. I beleive that it was between 1838 (birth of their youngest child in Devon) and 1843 (marriage of their oldest child in Hannersville, Ontario) John, b. around 1797, and Elizabeth, b. 1794, had the following...

Edmund Simons was born in 1888, Croydon, Royston, Hertfordshire. We know he emigrated to Canada, along with one of his brothers. He married Beatrice in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan and they had 4 children, Betty, Albert, David and Doreen. As a result of the marriages of Edmund and Beatrice's...

Are these available online? I am looking for the following couple and their family: In 1919 a lady by the name of Irma Victoria Eddy married the brother of her Stepfather. I suspect the marriage took place in Cambridge, Middlesex, MA. Her spouse was Alexander Macdonald and he was a...

I wonder if SKS could help? I am looking for the birth of George Clifford CUMMING(S), 10 May 1897, s/o Silas CUMMING(S) and Annie McDonald Lambton County, Ontario that appears on MS929, Reel 138 (GSU 1906132). On Ancestry, I can find only the left-hand pages of these births in Lambton...

Folks Need some eagle eyes on this one, please. Trying to puzzle out the occupation of a young woman on the 1891 Canadian census in Smiths Falls, Ontario: Victoria Tweedy, aged 24 is listed as being a wage earner, and having an occupation whose name I simply cannot decipher - looks like it...

Hi, i have been trying to research my grandfathers family,i have had great help from people here on bg,my grandfather emigrated to michipicoten algoma canada in 1909 followed by my grandmother and three children,but due to ill health they were back in uk 1911,i have since found out that one of...

Hi there, I'm trying to trace my grandfather, George Bishop, who I believe was a Canadian and fought in the Canadian Army during WW2. He was stationed at Fulwood Barracks, near Preston, Lancashire, England and was certainly here in July 1945 because my dad was born in April 1946. At the time my...

I am looking for information on my Great Great Great Grandmother Jane Good. I dont believe Good to be her maiden name, as she married my great great great Grandfather John Good. She immigrated from Ireland in around 1845. She was born approximately 1840, though that is as of yet uncomfirmed. She...

Hi, Does anyone live close to Caledon East Cemetery in Ontario? My grandfather Denis J H Walden was buried there in Dec 1972 and I would love to have a photograph of his grave. He was also member of the local village council and Canadian Legion. I would be most grateful if someone was able...

When looking for something completely different, I just discovered that this is now online free at http://www. collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1871/001101-100.01-e.php Search results are linked to digital images of the census enumerators' books.

Alberta. Early 1950s. Where can I get the details from and he had three children, two girls and a boy. How to trace them? Where do I look/search, from the 1920s? on. Any ideas welcome. john.

Hello, my husbands ancestor, Oliver Beake and his wife Selina emigrated to Canada in 1908. In 1912 they were followed by Oliver's brother, Frederick and then another brother Percival in 1914. Immediately Percival arrived in Canada he joined up, was sent to France and was killed in WW1. I...

My GF David Charles Ponton emigrated from UK to Margo in 1919 with his family. They all returned in 1926. Has anyone any info regarding a publication about the inhabitants of Margo which had information about the Ponton family I recall seeing this book when my father died in 1986 but it has gone...

|help| Can anyone head me in the right direction to find out about Thomas Norman Bradley, known as Norman? Norman was born C1915, in England. His mother emigrated to Canada with his sister in 1923, following the death of the father Albert Bradley. Norman followed at some time, (I've checked the...