If you have a fishing ancestor in the USA and you know the name of the vessel they worked on, you may find them in our Canadian waters or o...

This week while researching my ancestors, I came across this publication...     The Original Lists of Persons of Quality ; Em...

The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America Search Keyword "colonial dames of America" for other publications of ...

Spring is here for many of us. The risk of frost has past (hopefully, these days you never know) and thoughts are turning to sprucing up t...

With the completion of the railroad systems and people venturing further than their home town for holidays and adventures, the idea came a...

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

My husband has teachers in his ancestry, Angélique and Marguerite Nolin who started the first school in the Red River Settlement for nati...

Canada Civil List My great grandfather's brother William, a clerk in Kingston Ontario, applied for and was appointed to the Depar...

This year one of the movies premiering at Christmas time is a remake of "Annie", the classic story of Orphan Annie who gets adop...

As long as people have been travelling to and from other lands, they have been spreading disease. Most epidemics in New France began shortl...