Tag Archives: Upper Canada

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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This week’s crème de la crème — November 12, 2016

Posted on November 12, 2016 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs First World War Canadian Veterans Claim Cards and Canadian Veterans Death Cards: First World War by John D. Reid on Canada’s Anglo-Celtic Connections. Searching the Heir & Devisee Commission for Canadian … Continue reading →

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Consider adding these Canadian history booklets to your genealogy toolbox

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Gail Dever

Library and Archives Canada offers a digitized series of historical booklets on its website that should be in the genealogy research toolbox of family historians who research their Canadian ancestors. Published by the Canadian Historical Association (CHA), from 1953 to … Continue reading →

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135 years of McGill University theses a good resource for family historians

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Gail Dever

McGill University has recently completed the digitization of 135 years of theses and dissertations, from 1881 to 2016. This collection of theses is a gold mine of history and social history for genealogists, especially those researching their roots in Lower … Continue reading →

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Records of prisoners of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Gail Dever

Since I am back in my home province for a few days to attend and speak at the Ontario Genealogical Society’s (OGS) annual conference in Toronto, it seems appropriate to write about a free new genealogy resource, Penitentiary Patriots: Upper … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — March 26, 2016

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Early Protestants in Early Canada? Check the Marriage Bonds 1779 – 1858, Upper & Lower Canada on Gone Researching. On almost discovering another chapter in the story of a British Home … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — October 17, 2015

Posted on October 17, 2015 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Montreal’s Old Burying Ground by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Finding Tips for Using the Upper Canada Sundries by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on Legacy Family Tree. What a Great … Continue reading →

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Learn what happened to the French who fled to Canada during French Revolution

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Gail Dever

The Société généalogique canadienne-française (SGCF), the French Canadian genealogical society in Montreal, tweeted yesterday about a new book, Les Français émigrés au Canada pendant la Révolution française et le Consulat : 1789-1804, by Marcel Fournier. The book tells the story … Continue reading →

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Book about 1837 Rebellion contains names of captives and traitors

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Gail Dever

Global Genealogy has added a new book, Patriotes, Reformer, Rebels & Raiders: Tracing your ancestors during the ‘troublous’ times in Upper and Lower Canada 1820-1851, to its catalogue that may interest genealogists with ancestors who lived in Upper and Lower Canada … Continue reading →

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Ontario Historical Society reviews books on War of 1812

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Gail Dever

Are you still reading about the War of 1812 or interested in doing so? The Ontario Historical Society has added two new reviews to its list of book reviews about the War of 1812. The latest books reviewed are The … Continue reading →

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