Tag Archives: aboriginal

This week’s crème de la crème — September 5, 2020

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsChinese Immigration Act Case Files: Finding aids at LAC by Linda Yip on Past Presence. Japanese Canadian internment: Over 40,000 pages and 180 photographs digitized by the DigiLab by Gabrielle Nishiguchi on Library … Continue reading →

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Your top 15 online genealogy collections in 2016

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Gail Dever

Looking back over the past twelve months at what captured genealogists’ attention, it seems this was not the best year for exciting new Canadian collections. With the exception of Library and Archives Canada’s ongoing digitization of Canadian Expeditionary Forces service … Continue reading →

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10 books to read about Aboriginal history

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Gail Dever

For Aboriginal History Month, Canada’s History has put together a list of ten books about Aboriginal history to teach students, from kindergarten to grade 12. The list is inspired by Dr. Timothy Winegard’s presentation about teaching Aboriginal history at the … Continue reading →

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Canadiana launches online database of Aboriginal soldiers

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Gail Dever

April has been a good month for genealogists researching their Canadian ancestors with several new or expanded online databases, and here is another one. The following is the release Canadiana.org issued yesterday. OTTAWA, ON, April 26, 2016 — The World … Continue reading →

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Private records of Canadian aboriginal World War veterans being sought

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Gail Dever

Canadiana.org announced yesterday it has launched an initiative to keep alive the stories of Canadian aboriginal veterans of both world wars by digitizing their surviving private records and sharing them online with the public. About 12,000 aboriginal (Inuit, Metis, and … Continue reading →

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