Oct 6-12 is Fire Prevention Week.  Fire Prevention When a residential or business fire occurs it is not only firemen that get inv...

I haven't been posting lately because I'm finally getting around to starting on those projects I've had in my head for a long...

The British were in Egypt and the Sudan because of the Suez Canal. British general Charles Gordon was in the service of the Khedive of E...

Updated from Dec 2015 Those with ancestors that were in one of the World Wars may be interested in watching some Canadian Army Newsreels ...

Ploughing Matches were contests between local farmers to see who was the best ploughman. Whether pulled by oxen, horse, steam or tractor, ...

In 1820 there was an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Savannah Georgia, taking over 700 lives, including two doctors that were tending to the s...

In 1879 the Honorable J H Pope, the Agriculture Minister of Canada, invited tenant farmers' delegates from the UK to visit the Domin...

The Strait Settlements were a group of British territories in Southeast Asia established in 1826 as part of the British East India Compan...

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

The Colonial Magazine and versions thereof were published in London.  Check each issue in the volumes. Fisher's Colonial Magazine h...

My great uncle Alexander George Mavor was wounded at "The Bluff" at Ypres, Belguim in the First World War. He was in the trench...