During our country's 150th anniversary celebration of confederation I will write posts titled Canada 150 with a link to a publica...

During our country's 150th anniversary celebration of confederation I will write posts titled Canada 150 with a link to a publica...

Many countries have an Official Gazette to publish notices. I have touched on the Gazette in other posts, but haven't really explaine...

The Government of Canada published lists of naturalized immigrants as stipulated by the Naturalization Act of 1914 and later acts.  The li...

The Post Office  by Augustus Pugin Senior and Thomas Rowlandson for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1808-11). When my husba...

When hard times hit, many people could not pay their land taxes and their properties were seized and sold.  Past and present, towns list f...

While researching our ancestors we often don't find a female descendant because she changes her name when she gets married. That is par...

( This article talks more about the records in Québec, but the links are global.) This past spring my daughter was proud to accept th...

Even though most people do not read it, the Canada Gazette is considered the Official Notice to all Canadians.  It was first publishe...