High Fives - December 8, 2017

High Fives are articles or blog posts I have read during the week that I find interesting, and perhaps are pertinent to my research. Sometimes there are only a couple and sometimes there are quite a few.

Several posts and news clips this week were honouring the victims of the Halifax Explosion that occurred a hundred years ago on December 6, 1917. My great uncle Wilfred Tait may have been there to witness it, or perhaps to help in the aftermath, as he was in the Navy Reserves at that time. 

Here are some of the posts for the anniversary of the disaster.

Saint Mary's University historian creating Halifax Explosion database

~by Meghan Groff at Halifax Today

The Halifax Explosion: Records at Library and Archives Canada

~by Valerie Casbourn at Library and Archives Canada Blog

Halifax Explosion - 100th anniversary today, Book of Remembrance, mapping the victims’ homes

~by Gail Dever at Genealogy à la Carte

The roots of Boston’s Christmas tree go back 100 years to a disaster in Halifax

~by James Sullivan at Boston Globe Magazine

Halifax Harbour Remembers the Halifax Explosion

~by Dan Conlin at The Marine Curator

Because the explosion at Halifax is more globally known, it tends to overshadow another anniversary - that of the Massacre at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, December 6, 1989. Here are a couple of posts written by those who honoured these victims...

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

~by John D Reid at Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections

28 Years After The Montreal Massacre,Sexism Remains Deadly

~by Heather Barnabe at Huffington Post

I hope you have read down this far, because this is pretty good news for those who have ancestors from Paris, France...

Win a Prize for Your Genealogy Write-Up

~by Anne Morddel at The French Genealogy Blog

For more exciting weekend reading, see what posts these bloggers liked...

Saturday – Gail Dever, Crème de la Crème

Sunday – Randy Seaver, Best of the Genea-Blogs