Today marks the 75th anniversary of women in Quebec receiving the right to vote in provincial elections. While the bill was adopted on April 18, 1940, Quebec women would have to wait until the next provincial general election on August 8, 1944, to vote.
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Some of the genealogy bijoux I discovered this week.
Blogs
Finding/Researching Your Canadian World War 1 Soldier Ancestor- Part 2 on the Ontario Genealogical Society Blog.
Second World War Canadian Unit Diaries and Col. C. P. Stacey by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Roots.
Finding A Family Hero – An Obscure Canadian Database You Might Not Have Used But Should by Ian Hadden on Ian Hadden’s Family History.
Digitized Directory of Schools by Elizabeth Lapointe on Genealogy Canada.
The Irish At Home And Abroad Journal by Joe Buggy on Townland of Origin.
Huguenot Genealogy – Finding Protestants in Notarial Records by Anne Morddel on The French Genealogy Blog.
Hidden gems in newspapers – I hit the jackpost on this website by Diane Gould Hall on Michigan Family Trails.
Colby College: Jack Kerouac and Franco-American Migration by Juliana L’Heureux on The Franco-American Blog.
Back Issues of the Quarterly Publication of the State Historical Society of Iowa Available Online FREE by Julie Cahill Tarr on Julie’s Genealogy & History Hub.
The Storytellers by Ellen Thompson-Jenning on Hound on the Hunt.
Volunteer Appreciation Week: 10 Ways to Show You Care by Amy Johnson Crow on FGS Voice Blog.
Shhh! A Secret list of Reasons to Attend Your Local Genealogy Conference by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on Nutfield Genealogy.
Five dangers of only doing genealogy online by Helen Osborn on The Pharos Blog.
BCG Case Study: Movement! by Jill Morelli on Genealogy Certification: My Personal Journey.
Articles
GÉNÉALOGIE: Ramasseurs de noms vs généalogistes by Jacques Blaquière, L’Étincelle, Windsor, Quebec.
Remember Canada’s victory and its cost at Vimy: Editorial, Toronto Star.
WWI letters: Toronto soldier James Wells Ross and the gas attacks at Ypres by Katie Daubs, Toronto Star.
Old Durham Road cemetery to get pavilion by Rob Gowan, Sun Times, Owen Sound, Ontario.
