Tag Archives: Indigenous

This week’s crème de la crème — March 28, 2026

Posted on March 28, 2026 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsInside the Archives: Digitizing 6 Million Day School Records by Brianne Boucher and Beth Greenhorn on Knowledge Exchange. Research Resource – Kent Wills Index by Teresa Basińska Eckford on Writing My Past. … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — March 14, 2026

Posted on March 14, 2026 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsSome of Your LAC Links May No Longer Work and Library and Archives Canada Eliminates ATIP Fee by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. What is ATIP and why is it so … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — June 21, 2025

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsRevisit – Library and Archives Canada RG 8, C Series How-To by Ken McKinlay on Family Tree Knots. Federal Indian Day Schools: Education under the Indian Act—what did this mean for … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — June 14, 2025

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsResearching Supreme Court records at the BC Archives by Linda Yip on Past Presence. Historic Maritime Weather Records for Voyages from the UK to Quebec and LAC: Broken Records, Broken Search … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — May 24, 2025

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsIndigenous Stories of the Klondike Gold Rush: Part 1 – The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in by Jill Henderson on UBC Digitization Centre Blog. NARA’s two databases ease searches of its collection of 1.7 … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — September 28, 2024

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsNew Free to View on the British Newspaper Archive and FamilySearch Labs Experimental Search Watch by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. 10 Details Not to Miss on Italian Vital Records by DiAnn … Continue reading →

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New docuseries solves 80-year-old Indigenous family mystery

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Gail Dever

The Knowing is a family history journey like none we’ve seen on television. In the four-part docuseries that begins airing on CBC and CBC Gem on Wednesday, September 25, Anishinaabe journalist Tanya Talaga goes on a search to find out … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — November 4, 2023

Posted on November 4, 2023 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsMilitary Monday: For posterity’s sake by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. Indigenous Peoples in the First World War: researching forgotten veterans by Ethan M. Coudenys on Library and Archives Canada Blog. The French-Canadian … Continue reading →

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Gathering and mapping the stories of ’60s Scoop survivors

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Gail Dever

Colleen Cardinal, a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta and a survivor of the ’60s Scoop, has started to map out the stories of survivors. According to an article in Canada’s National Observer, Ms. Cardinal launched an online … Continue reading →

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Indigenous war veteran Tommy Prince honoured with new stamp

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Gail Dever

Canada Post is issuing a new stamp to remember the life and achievements of Sergeant Thomas (Tommy) George Prince, MM (1915-77), one of Canada’s most decorated Indigenous war veterans and a prominent Anishinaabe activist. Born on St. Peter’s Reserve, Manitoba, … Continue reading →

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