Some of the bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Religious Records Part 3 – Nova Scotia and New Brunswick by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story.
Resource Guide to Canadian Genealogy on Ancestral Findings.
100th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge: Trench maps on Archives of Manitoba Blog.
“The Story of Us” Is Not Quite Our Story… by Joseph Gagné on Curieuse Nouvelle-France.
The Real First Permanent European Settlement in Canada: Port Royal, Nova Scotia by Diane Tibert on Roots to the Past.
Blog Surfing Research Toolboxes, Part 2 — Professional Sites by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.
Ten Years Blogging by Brenda Dougall Merriman on Brenda Dougall Merriman.
How a Professional Genealogist Approaches Brick Wall Problems by Amy Johnson Crow on Amy Johnson Crow.
Why Did Mom Save That Recipe? by Denise Levenick on The Family Curator.
Arthur’s Baby Book by Janice Hamilton on Writing Up the Ancestors.
Articles
Trent Valley Archives: Where the history of Peterborough and area lives on by Elwood Jones, Peterborough (Ontario) Examiner.
Cape Breton Genealogy Help Centre getting more reference materials by Norman Macdonald, Cape Breton (Nova Scotia) Post.
Exhibit provides taste of social history by Peter Hendra, Kingston (Ontario) Whig-Standard.
Champlain settled here first, N.S. mayor says after mini-series snub by Michael Macdonald, Canadian Press.
100 years ago today, Canada’s black battalion set sail for WWI and made history by Carolyn Ray, CBC, Nova Scotia.
How Canada’s bloodiest day at Vimy defined Great War sacrifice by Brian Bethune, Maclean’s, Toronto.
A century later, what should the battle of Vimy Ridge mean for Canada? by Jake Edmiston, National Post, Toronto.
Hôtel-Dieu’s last rites: Film captures the dying days of ‘the soul of Montreal’ by T’Cha Dunlevy, Montreal Gazette.
‘I feel an obligation to re-engage and better understand what it is to be Irish’ by Michael Collins, Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland.
Beausoleil’s bones by Corey Vaughan, The Daily Iberian, Iberia, Louisiana.
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Thank you for the mention again this week, Gail. It’s always appreciated to have a post picked as part of the cream of the crop.