A Commission , or Royal Commission, is a formal public inquiry created by the government. A commission would be put together to look into...

"The Salvation Army [started in London in 1865] is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization. The or...

Government publications are a vastly underused resource to find our ancestors. We have visited the Sessional Papers a few times in this b...

The Police Gazette was a newspaper in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia issued by the police department giving descript...

In honour of today being  Police and Peace Officers’ National Memorial Day in Canada, which was declared in 1998 to be the last Sunday of...

My grandmother's brother was a wireless operator on submarine chasers during WWI. Looking for naval records and information, I came ac...

The other day I came across this Emigrant's Guide published in 1832, sold in London for one shilling. The title is: "The emigra...

British persons could have been sent to work in any colony under British rule. This book is an account of the services of the offices in t...

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

Living on the west coast and having visited the east coast we have seen many beautiful old lighthouses. One of our neighbours was once a L...