This may be a shock to some of my readers, but I have never physically done research at an archive or a library.  I have called to ask f...

My wonderful daughter agreed to my request that when I visited her in Montreal this summer she would drive me the 3+ hours to Kingston, On...

We all know now that ScotlandsPeople website has had an overhaul and it is now free to view the indexes. We get so busy looking for our a...

Free land in the west - easy right? Just sign me up! Not so.  A person could be issued a section of land, but he had to perform certain ...

The first realtors in the colonies were Crown Land Agents.  These agents were government appointed employees. Their role was not only to s...

We have moved many times over the years and with the paper work of each new place was a survey of the property... the lot, placement of bu...

I came across this publication put out by the Upper Canada Crown Lands Office, dated April 4, 1839.  It states as follows:       ...

When a country was at war, after the dust had settled individuals, corporations or even States for that matter could make a claim against ...

People emigrated to make a better life for themselves and their children, and for a lot of people that meant land. For budding countries su...

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...

The Métis are the descendants of mixed First Nations and European people, either French-Métis or Anglo-Métis (mostly Scottish or Engli...