Wednesday, October 22, 2008

My Ancestors on Halloween Pumpkins?

Can't resist!

Ancestors and relatives carved on pumpkins? What a great idea (and I do have family members who look pretty scary in their photos).

Notions, The Okuda Family, has step by step instructions for making pumpkin carving patterns from photographs: http://notions.okuda.ca/2006/10/27/portrait-pumpkin-carving

Now Photojojo wants more scary ones (and the fake ones sound like a good idea for some of us): http://photojojo.com/content/diy/photo-pattern-pumpkin-carving/

The Sally Hersey Diary, 1804-1850

This morning I am reading "The Sally Hersey Diary", available on CD from the Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.

Sally (Read) Hersey is thought to have been born in Massachusetts in 1768. She married Calvin Hersey in 1792 and began this diary in 1804. The CD includes images of her diary pages along with transcriptions. Sally Hersey wrote about her thoughts and feelings on events, about family and friends and about spiritual concerns, for example,

"Novr 10 [1824] Wednesday night My dear daughters got home from Vermont after an absence of almost seven months. how dear is the Society of those we tenderly love."

August 9 1832 this day is a national fast appointed on the account of that deadfull scurge the cholera that is rageing in our land.

She died in 1850 in West Hawkesbury, Prescott County, Canada West. BMD information on many relatives, neighbours and friends is included, and this continued to be updated in the diary after her death.

A very interesting paper by Dr. Marguerite Evans, "Sarah Hersey's Diary: The Spirituality of a 19th Century Pioneer Woman", is also on the CD.

This diary is well worth a read, if you're interested in this time period in Canada West or Vermont, especially, or in women's history. The CD itself is very well organized and easy to use.

To order, See 'Publications',
Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society: http://www.ogsottawa.on.ca/

OCTOBER IS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH IN CANADA - CELEBRATE!

Monday, October 20, 2008

Genea-Blogger Treasure Hunt - Report

Genea-Blogger Treasure Hunt - Report

Well, a few weeks ago, over at The Family Curator, Denise Levenick issued a challenge to Genea-Bloggers to open up, unpack, sort out, and clean out our ‘Magic Cupboards’ – those spots where family treasures and information has accumulated for ‘later’. I chose to clean up a small bookshelf which I've been using as a ‘genealogy sorting station’ which by now had several layers of ‘unknown’ materials in each various pile.I was able to finish most of this.

I did ‘unearth’ some treasures and they are now carefully put away. The ‘treasures’ included the scrapbook my mum made with my baby cards; the loose cards with the album are now in acid free envelopes. These I knew were there, but I also found a bundle of interesting envelopes that my father had saved (he was a stamp collector). Most related to our old family business, but one was a 1930 letter from my ‘Aunty Grandma’ to her sister, my grandma, which I transcribed and then blogged about separately today. Those special envelopes are now put away.

I set up a better on-going system of files for older projects that were literally 'on the shelf’ and I have put out for recycling a full bag of paper – obvious duplicate copies, etc.

That was the easy part.

I set up some ‘temporary file folders’ for the sheaves of ‘odd’ papers – for instance, surname related documents and information. These I filed, but it did seem to take quite a while. Now I still need to go through these files and put papers in my binders, but this is now a manageable task.

Thanks for the jog, Denise!

Announcing - The Graveyard Rabbit of British Columbia, Canada

Announcing a new blog, The Graveyard Rabbit of British Columbia, Canada, which will feature articles, illustrations and information about cemeteries, grave markers, burial customs, the study of cemeteries, transcriptions of tombstones, or the preservation of cemeteries in British Columbia.


The Graveyard Rabbit of British Columbia, Canada

I am now a Charter Member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits which is dedicated to the promotion, preservation, and photographing of graveyards, grave markers, and to the transcription of information found on tombstones and in burial grounds.

For more about the Association of Graveyard Rabbits, see the website: http://www.thegraveyardrabbit.com/




35 Things...This Meme is Getting Bigger...

I was tagged by “All My Branches Genealogy” and “The Family Curator”, and then, because I just wasn’t paying enough attention, I tagged myself at “AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors”.

Randy Seaver started all this for the Genea-Bloggers at his blog, “Genea-Musings” and he's been trying to keep track of the tags: http://www.geneamusings.com/2008/10/keeping-up-with-taggers-post-3.html

I may be the last to participate and can't see anyone who hasn't been tagged, so I am following Miriam's lead - if you think you've been left out, please consider yourself tagged!


**Ten years ago I was:
  • working in a large retail company’s office and finishing a Post Baccalaureate Diploma at Simon Fraser University, B. C., Canada
  • researching women’s suffrage in British Columbia (still am!)
  • living in Burnaby in an apartment house where I had many good friends – ah, the good old days at Howard House
  • a mum and a grandma and a daughter – spending lots of time with one special little boy and with my mum
  • remembering my trip to Portland to give a paper at the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association's conference and reading the great books I carried all the way home to Canada from Powell’s!

**Five things on today’s to-do list:

  • file the papers left in my Treasure Chest & post my report for that challenge, while thinking hard about rabbits in cemeteries!
  • release the books I’m taking to tomorrow night’s BookCrossing Meetup
  • buy cat food and cat treats – Very, Very Important!
  • finish reading my novel – The Mad Monk of Gidleigh by Michael Jecks
  • e-mail the members of the BC Genealogical Society DNA group about our November meeting

**Five snacks I enjoy:

  • Que Pasa organic blue corn chips and salsa, with guacamole, sour cream and olives
  • Cheddar cheese and soda crackers
  • cashews/almonds
  • mint ice cream with a little bit of chocolate in it
  • almost anything with butterscotch, caramel or toffee

**Five places I have lived:

  • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Burnaby, B.C., Canada
  • Chilliwack, B.C., Canada
  • Port Moody, B.C., Canada
  • That’s it!

**Five jobs I have had:

  • customer service clerk
  • freelance editor
  • museum curator
  • comptometer operator - that dates me, for sure, before calculators even!
  • trainer - no, not a fitness trainer!

**5 places I’ve been that I want to return to:

  • London, England
  • Islay, Scotland
  • Athens, Greece
  • Cairo, Egypt
  • Turkey

**5 places I've never been to that I want to explore:

  • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  • Niagara Falls
  • India
  • Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
  • New Orleans, U.S.A.
Here's something interesting I found in my 'Treasure Chest'.


Mailed from Regina, Saskatchewan to Winnipeg, Manitoba;
postmarked Regina Mar 3 1930 VIA AIR MAIL.
5 cent Air stamp; cover stamp Regina to Winnipeg, First Regular Official Flight


2327 McIntyre St
March 1st, 1930


Dear Sister

Here is to be my first “Air Mail” letter, why live in this modern age and not take advantage of all Modern Methods. It looks as if planes were going to be more popular than they have been. What will be the next thrill to amuse mankind.

Well we are having a bit more winter and it’s surely better now than next June. The days are getting so much longer and the sun warmer and the cold does not seem so severe as before, but I do like the mild weather.

I thought of going over to see Alice Dennison yesterday but did not make it. I haven’t seen them since before Xmas. Alex saw Lionel the other day and he asked why we never went around. I dropped in to Mrs. Ware’s and stayed too long there. Col. had been in hospital for over two weeks and is still in the house but hopes to go to his office next week again.

Dad has got started in his office again. Can’t say yet how they will get along. Chipman has lots of pep and the people he worked with before said he was a good Salesman but business seems pretty dull in every branch, and so many places have laid of a lot of help - however if the wheat price comes back again it will help some. McPhail sounds rather a hopefull note since he came back and forecasts a raise in prices.

What is Walter doing? Did the job he hoped to get develop yet?

Well our bunch are much happier working. Don is like a different fellow you would scarcely know him, he is as cheerful and happy and likes his work so much. Did not get home untill mid night last night. That happens ends of months. Laurie says “You would think Don was Manager of the Imperial Bank” instead of Junior – he walks & talks with such importance.

Was glad to get your letter yesterday had thought you had forgotten us here. Hope your knees are better again. The streets here are in same condition.

Hasn’t Annie Pattison got the big heart in her? She is always nursing some sick one or other. I hope the little girl is soon quite well. How is Tom McIntosh doing now?

Did I tell you I had a letter from Aunt Mary Jane a while ago. She told me, they expect Muriel will be married this next summer, her intended is a teacher too.

You said you were dreaming of us lately. I often dream of you too. Laurie is fairly well. he is thinner than usual, and had a touch of pleursy a couple of weeks ago. Dr Richie put a Bella dona plaster on him and told him to get an XRay of that lung just for to be satisfied as he never seemed to be real well since that bad cold at Xmas however it revealed nothing and puts his mind at ease. He has taken a six weeks Officer’s course and was going three nights a week to Armouries. I think it was too much as well as work.

I am going down town now for the Sundays supplies. We just seem to get away with loads of eats here. Don Mantle comes to dinner here every Sat. and we are always eight at any time.

Love to All - Maggie


This was sent by Maggie (Irwin) Drummond in Regina to her sister, Amy (Irwin) Scott, (my grandmother) in Winnipeg. Both sisters were born and married in Newdale, Manitoba. Alex was Maggie's husband; Walter was Amy's. Don and Laurie are Maggie's sons. Annie Pattison and Tom McInTosh were cousins. Most of the others mentioned, I believe, were 'family friends'.


In Winnipeg, the new Prairie Air Mail service was heralded as "An Epoch in Western Communication" by the Manitoba Free Press. Hundreds turned out to see the first Winnipeg mail flight - so many with motorcars that there was a traffic jam. (WFP, Tuesday, 4 March 1930, p. 1,4 - NewspaperARCHIVE at Godfrey Memorial Library - godfrey.org) Pilot W. J. Buchanan flew into Winnipeg from Regina with the first air mail solo on March 3rd, ten minutes ahead of time, and carried 8 bags of mail - about 500 pounds worth.

UK Incoming Passenger Lists - New at Ancestry.com

Hey, Ancestry.com now has 'UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960' up

I found a couple of 'mine' already - both I had already seen in the outgoing but I'm happy to have this database available.

Is it me or are the entries all pretty fuzzy looking though??

Here's today's announcement by The National Archives of the U.K. : http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/stories/214.htm?homepage=news

Ancestry.com database description - 'UK Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960' - "Original data: Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA). Series BT26, 1,472 pieces."

Sunday, October 19, 2008


Well, now I am back to filing - just finishing up the 'Treasure Hunt' challenge - but look who was waiting patiently in the last pile of paper just to cheer me up! He is apparently a very close relative of Genea-Gnome (can't wait to see his family chart), but he lived in Portugal before coming to British Columbia, Canada. The weather is much more to his liking here - more snow!

Would You Care To Comment? A Genea-Blogger Challenge

Earlier this month, Kathryn Lake Hogan posted the 'Would You Care to Comment?' challenge at her blog, Looking4Ancestors. We were each to make comments on at least 10 blogs we read.

Like at least one other Genea-Blogger, I started well, but didn't keep track! Oh, dear!

This morning when I received the last reminder, I was tired from a great, but long, day yesterday at the local Tri-Stake Family History Seminar, 'Finding Your Roots'. I had planned to spend this morning finishing up some filing, but instead of working, I spent the morning cruising the 'net catching up with genealogy blogs, mostly, but not all, written by Genea-Bloggers. Lots of interesting stuff here - from the serious to the (almost) silly, and the sublime (Randy's vacation!).

Here is a baker's dozen of blogs I commented on today:

The original challenge: Looking4Ancestors: http://looking4ancestors.blogspot.com/2008/10/fun-friday-would-you-care-to-comment.html

Grace and Glory, Grandmas were once little girls too:
http://beckysgraceandglory.blogspot.com/2008/10/grandmas-were-once-little-girls-too.html
(Becky Jamison)

AnceStories, It's All Randy's Fault!:
http://ancestories1.blogspot.com/
(Miriam Robbins Midkiff)

Genea-Musings, I'm almost ready to cruise:
http://www.geneamusings.com/2008/10/im-almost-ready-to-cruise.html
(Randy Seaver)

Creative Gene, Carnival of Genealogy, 69th Edition: http://creativegene.blogspot.com/2008/10/carnival-of-genealogy-58th-edition.html
(Jasia Smasha)

Destination: Austin Family,Genealogy Quip of Yore: http://destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com/2008/10/genealogy-quip-of-yore.html
(Thomas MacEntee)

Walking the Berkshires, Rara Avis from the Suffragist Years in Massachusetts: http://greensleeves.typepad.com/berkshires/2008/10/rara-avis-from.html
(Tim Abbott)

Anglo-Celtic-Connections, Ancestors in the Attic – Spirit Lake: http://anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com/2008/10/ancestors-in-attic-spirit-lake.html
(John D. Reid)

Genealogy: Canada, Canadian Census of Industrial Establishments – 1871:
http://genealogycanada.blogspot.com/2008/10/canadian-census-of-industrial.html
(Elizabeth Lapointe)

Kinexxions, So, What Was In That Box?: http://kinexxions.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-what-was-in-that-box.html
(Becky Wiseman)

GenBlog, All Those Pesky Collateral Folks:
http://genblogjulie.blogspot.com/2008/10/all-those-pesky-collateral-folks.html
(Julie Cahill)

Bootcamp for Genea-Bloggers and more, Leverage PowerPoint To Save Almost Anything As A JPEG: http://fbbootcamp.blogspot.com/2008/10/leverage-powerpoint-to-save-almost.html
(Thomas MacEntee)

TwigTalk, Dad’s Quilt: http://familytwigs.blogspot.com/2008/10/dads-quilt.html
(Sheri Bush)

West in New England, The Family Bible: http://westinnewengland.blogspot.com/2008/10/family-bible.html
(Bill West)

Saturday, October 18, 2008

A Night for All Souls - Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Over the centuries, most cultures and religions have created traditions to commemorate the dead, or to solicit their help, even, sometimes, to appease them. Our Halloween celebrations in North America are perhaps a remnant of the Irish Samhain festival, coming at the end of harvest season and the beginning of a dark and sometimes dangerous winter. The dead may seem especially close then.

The 'Night for All Souls' event at Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver, British Columbia is a new tradition - a special time to honour the dead with art and music, and with offerings of candles and lanterns, flowers, personal memorials and thought.

I've been attending 'Night for All Souls' since it was started in 2005 by Paula Jardine. I'm not sure what all my relatives would think of this, but I like it. It's always felt a very peaceful time, a time for reflection, but also for sharing, if one wants.

My grandpa Rogers worked at Mountain View and I like to think he and grandma would be happy to know so many more people visit the cemetery at this time. My mum would be very interested - she was keen to know more about other cultures, and was especially interested in Mexico, where the Day of the Dead at the very beginning of November is an important holiday. Dad would think it was all daft (but he'd be happy to see I'm remembering them, all the same).

Paula Jardine, a Canadian artist now living in Victoria, B.C., is Mountain View's 'artist in residence'. She creates events like this which blend art, music and dance with community and purpose and was the founding artistic director of the Public Dreams Society, which fosters events like the 'Parade of Lost Souls'.

This year, A Night for All Souls at Mountain View is October 25, 2008 from 6 to 10 pm.

"It will be a family friendly sanctuary of beauty for tender feelings, with fires to warm us, music to uplift us, tea to refresh us and materials to create personal memorials for our dead."

There are workshops during October so that people can fashion particular kinds of offerings or memorials, if they like. And, this year, after 'All Souls', from October 26 to November 2nd, artists will be at the cemetery each evening and so there will be opportunities for smaller, less organized gatherings each night.

LINKS:

A Night for All Souls, Mountain View Cemetery: http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/NONMARKETOPERATIONS/MOUNTAINVIEW/allsouls/index.htm

Paula Jardine, artist: http://islandsinstitute.com/gallery/Jardine/frontpage.htm

Public Dreams Society: http://www.publicdreams.org/

Friday, October 17, 2008

Live Roots is now 'live' - a new genealogy search

Illya J. D'Addezio, of GenealogyToday.com has released his new genealogy search, Live Roots, which promises to assist you in finding your surnames, etc. in not only the 'big' on-line databases but also in resources that are similar or even the same elsewhere and available on-line or off-line from commercial sites or publishers, groups or individuals, either free or for a fee.

Illya has been keeping up with genealogy on the Internet since the '90s, so he has lots of expertise, and any combined genealogy search is a great idea. I was eager to try it out.

Well, nothing for my A-Z names - AXNER and ZETTERBERG - but lots for the more common ones, GILCHRIST, IRWIN, SCOTT, even a very specific one for 'SCOTT and DETROIT'. I'll check that out.

Nothing for 'HOME CHILDREN' (a Canadian term for sponsored child migrants from Great Britain), but it's not all U.S. material, as there were results suggested for GILCHRIST and CARMICHAEL and ONTARIO searches - Department of Ontario Mines Reports from the 1920s - to be found at FamilyTreeConnection.com, a pay website, which has an interesting group of quite unique on-line databases - based on individuals identified in records and publications of churches, schools, clubs, and more.

GenealogyToday is well worth a look too, especially if you have any roots in the U.S.A. There's some excellent free information there as well.

Live Roots: http://www.liveroots.com/

GenealogyToday : http://www.genealogytoday.com/

Family Tree Connections, link to regions covered and databases included: http://www.familytreeconnection.com/sitemap.html#regions

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Cabinet of Curiosities – 10th Edition





This post is part of the Cabinet of Curiosities Blog Carnival – 10th Edition


Time for another look into my own Cabinet of Curiosities.

There are so many bits and pieces in the Cabinet, which is itself a curiosity, but today I’m looking at this block of ‘laminated glass’ which has served as a paperweight for years, first in my Na’s apartment, then at mum and dad’s, now in my place.

I was always told this piece was a damaged ‘souvenir’ from Dominion Glass in Hamilton, Ontario – intended for a World War II plane – in a gun sight. No idea if this could be correct, but grandpa Scott did work at the Dominion Glass plant there during World War II till 1947 when he died. Na brought a couple all the way with her when she moved to British Columbia after his death – she seemed to me to think of this as a treasure, so I do too. It’s quite interesting looking when the sun shines through it; I think I’ll leave it out on the window sill for a change.

I have never been to Hamilton, although I hope to visit some day. I do have some information about Na and grandpa’s life in Hamilton, including Na's well used, well loved cookbook from the Zion United Church in Hamilton. I intend to write up an index of the contributors’ names – the Ladies of the J.O.Y. Bible Class –but that’s for another day. I don’t know why grandpa and Na decided to move to Hamilton from Winnipeg, Manitoba, but it seems likely to me that they knew at least one or two people in Hamilton already and heard there were jobs there. Perhaps I’ll find a connection there.

Women worldwide and Poverty - Blog Action Day 2008



It’s Blog Action Day 2008 today – this year bloggers all over the world are writing about poverty – most are calling us to action against poverty.

I’m most concerned about women and poverty – according to the United Nations, poverty among women worldwide is increasing, not decreasing, and “women’s poverty is a violation of their human rights to health and well-being, food, adequate housing, a safe and healthy living environment, social security, employment and development.”

Accordingly I want to introduce two of the groups I support.

The first is ‘MATCH International’ – “a Canadian women’s international organization guided by a feminist vision of sustainable development which recognizes the diverse realities of women and respects their efforts for self-determination.” Since the 1970’s , MATCH has been partnering with national and local agencies around the world. In Senegal, for instance, MATCH works with Centre Africain Pour Le Leadership Féminin (CALDU) to train women leaders to take places in local government and local community development.

The other group is KIVA – an innovative Internet organization that works with field partner groups around the world facilitating micro-lending to groups and individuals identified by the partners. At the KIVA website, you can search in a variety of ways to find a lending project you are interested in, perhaps, for instance, those associated with Pro Mujer Bolivia which for seventeen years has been assisting poor women entrepreneurs with small loans as well as with business training, health services for women and for children, and with literacy and other needed services. I’ve just this morning loaned a small amount to a women’s group in Mali who need to buy a variety of goods for resell, including smoked fish and firewood. This group is sponsored by Soro Yiriwaso, (a Save the Children partner) which assists rural women in Mali.

MATCH International: http://www.matchinternational.org/

KIVA: http://www.kiva.org/

‘Women and Poverty’, United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW): http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.php?option=content&task=blogcategory&id=143&Itemid=171

Blog Action Day 08: http://blogactionday.org/

Here’s a post about Bolivia that’s just been published by an ‘Action Day’ blogger, Palegoldenrod: http://www.palegoldenrod.com/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-poverty-in-bolivia

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Buda Brown - Women and the Vote in British Columbia, 1956


The Vancouver Sun, Thursday, 20 September, 1956

An e-mail pointing out that women should make sure they vote, considering how long it took for Canadian and U.S. women to get that right, is making the rounds. In fact, the first women in Canada to vote federally did so under the 1917 Military Voters Act which allowed British subjects with close male relatives in the military to vote on those relatives’ behalf.

Manitoba granted women the right to vote provincially in 1916, as did Saskatchewan, then Alberta. British Columbia followed in 1917 and women were granted the federal franchise in 1918. Not all women were included, though, as many women and men continued to be denied the right to vote, if classed as Chinese or Indian, for example.

One of the things I’ve pulled out of my ‘Treasure Chest’ lately is this newspaper clipping from 1956 from the ‘women’s pages’ which headlines a victorious candidate in the British Columbia election that year, Buda Brown, and her bread making skills.

“It was the same old thing Wednesday [election day] at the Point Grey home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Brown.
Buda was baking bread.”


Little wonder that women political candidates and hopeful were sometimes discouraged about making changes.


I know she and I would have had to ‘agree to disagree’ on many issues, but at the time of her election as a Member of the British Columbia legislature (M.L.A.) Buda Hosmer (Jenkins) Brown, then in her sixties, was already well known as a hard-working politician in her own right, having served for years on the Vancouver Parks Board, a sometimes contentious arena.

She is quoted in the article as saying that her husband (who had been an M.L.A. himself previously) was “as pleased as I am, so there won’t be any fuss about me being away from home” but that she would continue to be most concerned with “the welfare of the children of the community”.

Only 2 women succeeded in this 1956 provincial election, Brown in Vancouver for the Social Credit party, and Lois Haggen for the CCF – Cooperative Commonwealth Federation - in Grand Forks. Others had been in the race – Evelyn Fingarson (Social Credit), and Emma Tinsman (Conservative), Grace MacInnis (C.C.F.), running against Buda Brown, and Nellie McCay (Liberal) all in Vancouver, and Lydia Arsens (Social Credit) in Victoria.

In an odd twist, Brown apparently blamed this on women voters, saying - "Women are always screaming the we should have more women in the government, but it appears that when they go to the polls, they forget their own screams and vote against the women candidates." Her view is often echoed even in today's examinations of women's political work after suffrage.


Buda Brown continued as an M.L.A., becoming British Columbia’s second woman cabinet minister in 1960. Sadly, in 1962, she became the first woman sitting M.L.A. in British Columbia to die in office.


LINKS

“Women’s Right to Vote”, Parliament of Canada: http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/compilations/ProvinceTerritory/ProvincialWomenRightToVote.aspx

‘Women Winning the Vote in Canada”, Parks Canada: http://www.pc.gc.ca/canada/proj/fcdv-wwv/index_e.asp

“Voting in Canada, How a Privilege Became a Right”, CBC: http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/elections/topics/1450

Friday, October 10, 2008

Funny Bone - Smile for the Camera


Here's a family photo that always makes me smile!
My 'oh, so tidy' mum, Muriel from Newdale, Manitoba, Canada. Either it was really windy that day or she completely refused to have her hair brushed. I can only imagine!
Happy Thanksgiving, Ma

Thursday, October 09, 2008

Genea-Blogger Treasure Hunt update

Not much time for anything lately, but I have been working on the Genea-Blogger 'Treasure Hunt' though. Everyday I've spent a least a few minutes sorting and filing.

Nothing so far was a real surprise, but I'm sure there will be one or two. Many of these things are things I put 'somewhere safe' , knowing I'd want to get to them 'later'.

I did find the little family posters I will need very soon for the 'Night for All Souls' at Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver - commemorating my great grandparents, Sarah Ann Staines and David Saggers, my grandparents, Sarah Saggers and Joe Rogers, my uncle, David Rogers, and my parents, Muriel Scott and George Rogers. All of them are buried in Mountain View.

I also have one for great uncle Herbert Saggers. He was buried in France during World War I, but I know my grandmother Sarah would want her brother, 'Bert', included.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Votes for Women, 1908 - Wordless Thursday

LEAP-YEAR; or, The Irrepressible Ski [Agitation], from Punch, January 1, 1908


Women's History Network of BC Conference, October 3-4, 2008 Victoria, B.C.
Raising the Bar: Historical Perspectives on Women and the Law

Website: www.members.shaw.ca/whnbc