Thursday, July 30, 2009

Treasure Chest Thursday - Great Grandmother's Rolling Pin


Although I was never much interested in practising the domestic arts when young, I loved my Na's baking. She always seemed to have cookies or perhaps jam tarts for our afternoon treat. Among her treasures was this rolling pin which both she and her mum told me belonged to my Great Grandmother, Janet (née Carmichael) Irwin. Na also had a glass rolling pin, but I don't know what ever happened to that. (If it broke, it wasn't me, I swear!) Mum had a 1950s (?) rolling pin, but I think my brother may have that now.

I've had this rolling pin for a long time, but I've never used it myself. It appears handmade - all one piece - and it certainly has the marks of a lifetime or two of use, although it's really not in bad condition. I have it displayed on top of a cupboard in my kitchen along with some tins and old cookbooks. The cookie tins hold my cookie cutters - both old and new ones.

I once had a nice collection of vintage and antique kitchen/domestic items, but most of the non-family items have been given away now. Even rolling pins, I know, are quite collectible, but I was a bit surprised to see an article about displaying them. Perhaps I can find a better way to show it off.

Cookie cutters are very collectible. In the United States there is a Cookie Cutter Collectors Club. Is there one in Canada?

Here are a few of mine - a vintage cowboy complete with guns, a small round vintage cutter, a modern pottery Canada maple leaf heart cookie press and a handmade woman's symbol cookie cutter (bought at a woman's group sale in Vancouver in the 1980s, I think. I don't believe I ever knew who the maker was).


I do have a number of recipe books but none that I know great grandmother Irwin would have used. I always heard she was a great reader though, and so I found this simple cookie recipe in a local 1893 newspaper.

FOR THE LADIES Useful Recipes, including

Thin Cookies—One cup of butter, one cup of sugar and three eggs. Beat together to a cream, add flavoring to suit, then just enough flour to roll out very thin. Cut out with biscuit cutter, and bake in a quick oven to a very light brown. Watch them constantly as they burn very easily.


Portage La Prairie Weekly Review, 8 March, 1893, page 2.

Na and Great Grandmother would have known a quick oven should be about 375-400 degrees Fahrenheit. (I had to look it up to check.) The hard part, I think, would be keeping an wary eye on these cookies while attending to all the other usual household work, like cleaning, cooking, sewing and washing. Perhaps 'watching the cookies' was sometimes a young daughter's task.

In the same Ladies section of the paper, were other recipes, household hints and decorating ideas. Among these is a long description of the ideal kitchen floor which says that:

"A clean floor is a delight to the tidy housewife, and a soiled one an annoyance which must be removed at the first opportunity."

I'm afraid I remember still how much flour ended up on the floor when I did 'help' Na and Mum too with baking cookies.

Some of you will have noticed that this recipe was published on the 8th of March in 1893. Since 1909, that date has been International Women's Day, so when I saw this poem in the same Ladies area of the same paper, I just knew Mum and Na and Great Grandmother Irwin would have wanted me to mention it here. No author's name is given and a search through some historical newspapers didn't provide any more details, so if you know who wrote this, please contact me as soon as possible. I am reading through the 1893 issues of this paper, so may come across a name or clue.


A Hard-Working Woman

All day she hurried to get through,
The same as lots of wimmin do:
Sometimes at night her husban’ said:
"Ma, ain’t you goin’ to come to bed?”
An’ then she’d kinder give a hitch,
An’ pause half way between a stitch,
An’ sorter sigh, an’ say that she
Was ready as she’d ever be,
She reckoned.

An’ so the years went, one by one;
An’ somehow she was never done;
An’ when the angel said as how
“Mis’ Smith, it’s time you rested now,”
She sorter raised her eyes to look
A second, as a stitch she took;
“All right: I’m coming now,” says she,
“I’m ready as I’ll ever be,
I reckon.


Portage La Prairie Weekly Review, no author shown, 8 March, 1893 page 2.

Located on Manitobia.ca – a website devoted to historically significant documents and publications, including newspapers, from Manitoba, Canada’s past. Manitobia is a project of the Manitoba Library Consortium and its partners (French & English): www.manitobia.ca


Sunday, July 26, 2009

Oldest Relatives and My Genealogy Luck

Yesterday, The Genetic Genealogist posted this question:

"Who Is The Oldest Relative You Remember Meeting?

Did you know any of your great-great-great-grandparents? Great-great-grandparents? Who is the oldest relative you remember meeting?"


See his post and the comments for his answer as well as other people's answers.

I met & remember three of my grandparents - also a great aunt.

My paternal grandparents, Grandpa Rogers and Grandma Rogers, née Saggers, were born in 1877 and 1878; they died when I was five. I do remember them, but not well, I'm afraid.

My great aunt, Maggie Drummond, my 'Auntie Grandma', née Irwin, was born in 1881; she died when I was 18. My maternal grandmother, my 'Na', Amy Scott (née Irwin), was born in 1884 and died when I was in my mid 30s. Both I remember well.

As my mother told me several times, many relatives attended my christening, so I must have 'met' a few relatives who would have been born earlier than these, but I was just too little then to pay attention and it seems no one took any group photographs that day either. I do have my baby book with a list of relatives (and presents) in it.

I found the Genetic Genealogist's question very interesting. I've wondered sometimes myself if life would have been a bit different if I'd had more time with my paternal grandparents, (and not just because I could have got Grandpa Rogers to answer some thorny genealogical questions).

I never knew my Grandpa Scott as he died before I was born, but I know I was lucky that my Na lived long enough to know my children and lucky that she talked so often about family things, both to my mother and later to me. I'd never had had such a good start to my family research without the information she gave me when I was younger and it certainly seems highly unlikely that my Mum and I would have been able to identify so many family photographs without Na.

In fact, I feel very lucky that my maternal great grandmother, Janet Irwin (née Carmichael), lived so long too. In her later years, she lived a lot with my grandparents and my mother said her great grandmother talked about family history to her. Great grandmother Irwin lived from 1851 to 1927; my mother was 13 when she died.

Mum could hardly have remembered her grandfather William Irwin though as he died when mum was four.

Mum never knew her paternal grandfather, Walter Scott, as he died in 1892, but she did know her paternal grandmother, Mary Janet Scott, née Wood, who was born in 1858 and didn't die till 1944 when mum was thirty.

I don't think great grandmother Scott talked to Mum much about family or if she did perhaps it was only what she wanted known. I do know my mother overheard a family secret at Mary Janet Scott's funeral - one I didn't hear from Na - or from Mum till I started seriously researching family.

My mother knew and remembered other relatives too, especially, I think, her great aunt, Maggie Graham, née Carmichael, born in 1863.

This post is really my answer too for Randy Seaver's latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun question too! He asked

"When have you had a dose of good genealogy luck?"

Have a look at the comments to his post to see people's answers.

And now, Randy, start scanning, photographing and writing about your 'lucky find' family treasures and don't forget to share them on Treasure Chest Thursdays!

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Treasure Chest Thursday - New!

The Swiss Family Robinson, edited by G.E. Mitton, Third Edition, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia (no date - 1920s?). Owned and read by George Rogers (signed inside cover) & by daughter M. Diane Rogers, both of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Prices in pencil, inside, 2.00 (crossed out) and 1.00. Stamped - "Mark R. M. Co, Ltd. VAN "


Leslie Ann Florida over at Lost Family Treasures is now dedicating Thursdays to sharing family treasures and has invited other genea-bloggers to do the same. I'm happily following her example here and so today will be my first Treasure Chest Thursday.

Slowly I've been photographing and describing my own family treasures, mainly so that my children will have a record of these and so that they'll be able to read some of the stories behind all that 'old stuff' I like to keep around me.

Almost every family has at least one special memento from the past. Perhaps it's not the far off past - it could be mum's braids, a souvenir plate from Blackpool, England, a hand made baby sweater from the 1930s or Mum and Dad's rock and roll record collection from the '50s. Few of these treasures are valuable in monetary terms, although some families may have heirlooms with diamonds and pearls.

Talking to relatives about ways to preserve and safeguard these family mementos and family heirlooms could bring home to relatives just how very useful their family genealogists can be. And looking at family treasures, even the 'silly' ones, is often a good way to interest those 'non-gens' in the family in a story or two.

I've made up some forms for my 'Family Treasure' inventory which I'd be happy to share. I give these out often to members of groups I speak to about genealogy as I find there is a lot of interest in this topic. I have specific forms for photographs and for books too.

Reading is one of my passions and as a girl I was lucky enough to have a number of older books given to me by relatives. This book, originally my dad's, The Swiss Family Robinson, was a childhood favourite of mine. I thought of it as a very practical adventure story - how to live well if marooned.

In my own collections too are quite a number of bits and pieces that I've brought home myself, mainly from genealogy research trips, which bring back my own treasured memories of places where my various families have lived, like this double decker bus marked as #99 Town Centre Linthwaite (West Yorkshire). I just had to have it!

I'm hoping all my treasured pieces will find a place among someone else's family treasures someday - "Grandson, are you listening?".

Red vehicle model, double decker Yorkshire Traction company bus - #99 Town Centre Linthwaite, with ad for Stardrops Cleaning Magic on both sides.
Marked underneath: Oxford Diecast, Vintage Model, Made in UK.
Two of my ancestors, Samuel WOOD and his father Joseph WOOD, both born in Yorkshire, England, lived at Linthwaite in Yorkshire, before emigrating. Both died in Ontario, Canada.




Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Two Genea-Bloggers Met in Surrey BC Today!


Today two genea-bloggers met at the BC Genealogical Society's Walter Draycott Library in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Serendipity! What fun!

Sue Dombrowski and her mum came along today to have a good look at the Library's collections. Luckily I happened to be right there when they arrived.

Here's the proof for our on-line friends at Genea-Bloggers and at Scrapaholics! (Wish we'd had some Mardi Gras beads handy though. Next time...)

Sue and I met on-line through the Scrapaholics scrapbooking Meetup group and this May, Sue started blogging at Scrap Your Roots. I wrote an article then about her and her blog. Both Sue and I are members of the Genea-Bloggers group and we read each other's blogs regularly.

I was very glad to meet Sue's mother too as she was the family genealogist till she got Sue interested in family history.

Sue's been participating in an on-line scrapbooking workshop - 'The Challenge of Me'. This does sound like something many of us should do. Have a look at her blog to read how Sue's doing with that project.

Sue's also started her own business developing family heritage scrapbooking kits. Great idea! Beginners will love these and they will be a good 'jump start' sometimes too for scrapbooking people like me - long on ideas and short on time.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Annual Free Library Week & Open House - BCGS Walter Draycott Library - Surrey BC

BRITISH COLUMBIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Walter Draycott Library
Open House & free Library Week
www.bcgs.ca

July 19, 2009 - from 1- 3 pm - British Columbia Genealogical Society
Annual Open House - Walter Draycott Library - Surrey BC
Free; refreshments.
Address: Unit 211, 12837 - 76th Avenue, Surrey, BC
Telephone: 604 502 9119
Website: www.bcgs.ca

July 20-25, 2009 - 10 am to 3 pm daily - British Columbia Genealogical
Society Annual Free Library Week
Walter Draycott Library - Surrey BC

Featuring different research areas each day
of the week; visitors are welcome to come any time the Library is open.

Monday - Scotland; Tuesday - Ireland; Wednesday - England and Wales;
Thursday - Canada; Friday - USA;
Saturday - all others - Europe, including Scandinavia, also Australia and New Zealand.

Over 13,000 publications, microforms, CDs,
etc. for worldwide genealogical research. Check the library catalogues on
our website: www.bcgs.ca

On-line databases available during BCGS Library Week at the Walter Draycott library: FindMyPast (UK research - Explorer edition) www.findmypast.com
and the New England Historic Genealogical Society: www.newenglandancestors.org

BCGS Walter Draycott Library address:
Unit 211, 12837 - 76th Avenue, Surrey, BC
Telephone: 604 502 9119


British Columbia Genealogical Society
Mailing address only - P.O. Box 88054, Lansdowne Mall, Richmond, BC, CANADA, V6X 3T6

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Carnival of Genealogy - Summer Vacation Lake Louise 1963




Here's a photograph of me at Lake Louise in Canada, taken by my mother, I believe, while we were on a trip together in 1963. Luckily for me, Mum identified the photos from this trip on the back. I believe this was my first visit to Lake Louise, but she had been there several times before.

Note my matching shoes and bag and the fancy glasses. We 'always' matched our accessories, and only used white till Labour Day. This was just before beehive hairdos were popular in our town, so my do is pretty plain, but I did wear high heels from quite early on. Anything to make me taller! (Even later in the 60's, I was in my brother's old jeans, wooden beads and sandals, but that's another story.)

And then, as now, I had my whole life in my purse, including a pen and notebook and a novel to read in any spare moments. Wonder what I was reading that year? I'll bet I took some Canadian history along - perhaps a Thomas Costain novel or two (or maybe one of the Angélique books).

This photograph has surprisingly good colour, I think, at least compared to some of the 1970s colour photographs I have. But, the edges of this photo are all yellowed.

This was written for the Carnival of Genealogy - the 76th Edition. The topic:
How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Watch for the full Carnival to be posted soon at Creative Gene.

For more about other family vacations, including mine, read the latest Canadian Carnival of Genealogy too - over at Looking For Ancestors.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Canadian Genealogy Carnival - Canadian Vacations

Dad, Dave & Diane, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada 1956. Private collection.

Most of the vacation trips I remember from when I was little were short ones close to our home in Vancouver. My parents ran a business together and didn't get away much. Sometimes Dad came to meet us on weekends only.

When I was a bit older, except for Victoria, I don't remember us vacationing locally. Instead my mother and I used to take trips to Portland, Oregon to shop (no sales tax) and with my brother, we also went to California and to Hawaii. I also went to camp, first with the Salvation Army Brownies and Girl Guides at Camp Sunrise, Gibsons Landing, and once? twice? to Camp Fircom on Gambier Island for weekend 'work' parties with a United Church youth group.

The more memorable childhood holidays for me were weekend and week long jaunts to Bowen Island, Sechelt and to Alta Lake, or to Victoria on Vancouver Island. All of these involved boat or ferry trips but all were popular local vacation spots for Vancouverites. My Dad always seemed to know someone wherever we stayed.

Once my mum and I went to Calgary on the train to see the Calgary Stampede. That train ride I remember quite well, and seeing Jay Silverheels in the Stampede parade. (Dreamy!) Oddly, there aren't any photograph of that trip, although I do have the tickets still and a bit of a trip diary. I did bring home a white cowboy hat for myself, but that's long ago 'bit the dust'.

These are the only two photographs from one of our Bowen Island summer vacations. I know I always, always took a doll with me on holidays and there are a few photos like this one which show that. I've been thinking lately that Bowen Island would be a good place for a short 'writing' holiday for me now. Lots of interesting places to stay and things to see too. (Is there a used bookstore, I wonder? I do know there's a Library.)

Mum, Diane with doll and Dave, Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada, 1956. Private Collection



We had a boat of our own at one time and often went out in it with our parents and Na. I remember little about these excursions except what the boat looked like, but one emergency run when my brother hit his head on a battery is imprinted permanently on my consciousness.

Other vacation activities were day trips. We took commercial cruises up Indian Arm to the now one hundred year old Wigwam Inn, for example. Last summer I noticed Chuck Davis had written about a trip along a similar route - Vancouver City certainly looks different now, but some things are the same.

I don't have any photographs that I can identify as ones from these day trips. I do remember once my mother and I arguing about what I'd wear on an Indian Arm trip. I wanted to wear a green seersucker dress with a darker stripe. My mother wanted me to wear some summery frock, no doubt with a few frills or ribbons. I won! and later she said I was right to wear it as it didn't show the dirt. Her summer whites were much the worse for wear during that voyage! Fancy my remembering that all these years. (Sorry, Ma.)


This was written for the 5th Edition of the Canadian Genealogy Carnival - it's all about favourite Canadian vacations. Where did your ancestors like to spend their summer holidays? Did your family enjoy a favourite beach or cottage? Or did your family travel from sea to shining sea?

The Carnival will be posted on July 15, 2009 at Looking For Ancestors.

The Suffragette In Court - Festival of Postcards

The Suffragette In Court - "Two months without chocolates."
Postcard front. Note the
Tuck trademark on your lower left.

The Festival of Postcards is a carnival celebrating both vintage and modern postcards.
Each issue features members’ postcards gathered around a certain theme.


This time, for July 2009, the theme is 'Signs'.

Everyone is welcome, from Postcrossers to vintage postcard collectors, from beginners to experienced deltiologists*. There’s just one requirement – you must love postcards!

For my Carnival entry, I've chosen this women's history related postcard from my collections, c. 1910. What kind of sign does it refer to?

Why protest signs, of course!

This is one of many British anti-suffrage postcards. It illustrates a very young girl in the prisoner's dock facing a judge in wig and gown sitting at a desk. The little girl's eyes seem to be closed - perhaps she is holding her breath till she hears the verdict? She is well dressed in green and pink. Could it be her ribbons and socks were meant to be violet? The colours green, purple and white were associated with woman's suffrage. She has a 'Votes For Women' sign beside her in the dock.

This 'scene' appears to have been set in a photographer's studio; the edge of the plain backdrop is visible.

There are anti-woman's suffrage postcards from Canada and from the United States too, but British postcards seem to me to have far more pointed references than the others. The mention of the sentence given - "Two months without chocolates" not only trivializes the sentences given to adult suffragettes, but likely refers to the consequences of imprisonment for suffragettes who went on hunger strikes - forcefeeding - which went on from 1909 -1913. Thus the card may well date from this period or afterwards.

Tuck's was a very well known and a very prolific postcard publishing company. This card was bought from a Canadian dealer and it, or ones like it, may have circulated in Canada. Canadians were well aware of woman's suffrage events and activities in Great Britain. These were widely reported in Canadian newspapers and often mentioned in discussions (pro and con) concerning woman's suffrage in Canada.

In 1910, a group of western Canadian teachers visited England and mainland Europe and one of them spoke to a Winnipeg newspaper about her impressions of a large suffrage parade in London, likely the one held 23 July, 1910.

“An Impressive Parade

One of the Canadian teachers, who returned this week form the trip to England and the continent saw the suffragette parade in London, a parade of forty thousand women, and heard Mrs. Pankhurst speak. She says the parade was wonderfully impressive, and it was timed to be just forty years later than a parade of laborers who desired the vote, and who when the gates of Hyde Park were closed against them, tore the gates down and went in, despite the protests of the police. Mrs. Pankhurst illustrated the progress made by the fact that the women did not need to tear the gates down. In the park were forty platforms, and forty speakers urged the cause of women, frequently interrupted by men when a good point was made. In the parade were eight hundred university graduates in caps and gowns; there were carriages of the wealthy and aristocratic and hundreds of the middle class and poor walked. Every class of society was represented in that immense parade, a parade that will never be forgotten by the Canadian women who saw it.
The following day the anti-suffragettes had a parade, which was such a poorly managed, weak affair, that had the supported aimed to show their losing cause they could not have taken a better way. It was a surprise to many the number of men in the old country who are strongly in sympathy with the suffragettes, and who point out that forty years of quiet constitutional work of earnest women did not do so much for the cause of women as two or three years of stones and brick-bats.”

Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,
Friday, 9 September, 1910, page 9.


Woman's suffrage related postcards seemed once almost neglected by collectors, but today's prices often reflect a new interest.

Here's a display of 'Suffragette Postcards , c.1910' including ones from Great Britain, from the University of Waterloo Library, Archives and Rare Books Division, in Ontario, Canada. The Exploring 20th century London website has others on-line.

Suffrage women's groups also published pro-suffrage postcards in Great Britain. Some were done by members of the Artists' Suffrage League allied with the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The
Women's Library (London Metropolitan University, England) holds NUWSS records, as well as records of the Artists' Suffrage League.



Tuck's Post Card (back), Carte Postale Postkarte "Raphael Tuck & Sons" "Rapholette" "The Suffragette"
Series 8090 Art Publishers to their Majesties The King & Queen. Processed in Saxony.
See also trademark, etc. Divided back; unused; poor condition. Private collection.


For more about both suffragette and anti-suffragette use of images, including postcards, particularly in Great Britain, see:

The spectacle of women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907-14 by Lisa Tickner (London: Chatto & Windus, 1987).
Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866 -1928 by Elizabeth Crawford (Abingdon, England: Routledge, 2001 - originally published London UCL Press, 1999).

*deltiologist - from the Greek δελτίον, deltion, diminutive of δέλτος - deltos, 'writing tablet, letter' and from λογία - logia - 'speech', also 'study' - thus someone who studies and collects postcards. See Deltiology at Wikipedia.


If you're a postcard collector or interested in learning about postcards, visit the Vancouver Postcard Club, British Columbia, Canada


Friday, July 10, 2009

They Worked - Smile For The Camera - Beekeeping in Ontario Canada

Samuel WOOD, 1820-1908, at home in Nottawa, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada, c. 1900. He was born in West Yorkshire, England; he died at home in Ontario and is buried in Duntroon Cemetery.
The woman is probably either Hattie or Annie SCOTT, his granddaughters (sisters of my grandpa Walter).



Samuel WOOD had been a weaver in England. He emigrated to the US in the 1850s where he worked as a weaver in Bean Hill, Connecticut and in Newark, New Jersey, then with his family, he went to Ontario, Canada where he lived the rest of his life. He is listed in Canadian censuses from 1871 to 1891 as a weaver but is thought to have kept bees during that time. In the 1901 census, his occupation is given as beekeeper.

I believe he was a member of the Ontario Beekeepers' Association and I intend to do research about this on my next trip to Ottawa. Library and Archives Canada holds some materials relating to beekeeping and beekeepers in Ontario, including a membership roll for the Ontario Beekeepers' Association 1892-1894 and a list of names of non-member beekeepers in Ontario in 1883 (in the Apiculture collection donated by P. W. Burke, 1985).

In this photograph, the only one I know of showing anything to do with Samel WOOD and beekeeping, Samuel is holding what appears to be a newspaper along with a magnifying glass. (I suspect the glass is to help him read the paper.) Since I love reading old newspapers, I hope to find an article about Samuel WOOD and his beekeeping in a local paper someday. I had thought perhaps this photograph might have been sent along to family in Manitoba with a mention of such an article, but, so far, no luck in that search.

This post was written for the 15th Edition of the Smile for the Camera! Carnival.

The word prompt for the 15th Edition of Smile For The Camera is "they WORKED hard for the family." The professions of our ancestors are almost as interesting as the people themselves. Some of our ancestors worked very hard; they took in laundry, worked the land, raised many children, or went to school and became professionals. Photographs of them working are called occupational photographs and are rather hard to find. If you do have a photograph in your collection or family photographs, bring them to the Carnival. If not, post a photograph of one of your relatives or ancestors and tell us what they did for a living. Use your imagination, this one is tricky. Admission is free with every photograph!

Watch for the Smile for the Camera Carnival to be posted soon.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Family Treasures - Lions Gate Bridge Pin Cushion


Pin cushion? showing Lions Gate Bridge - named for the Lions mountain peaks on the North Shore (also known as the First Narrows Bridge), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This bridge, linking Vancouver and the North Shore through Stanley Park, opened in 1938 with 2 lanes for traffic and a 25 cent a car toll charge.
In 2005, it was designated as a national historic site of Canada.
Modern photographs and a bit of Lions Gate Bridge history at Beyond Robson.
Cushion of printed fabric, no identification. Family collection.


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Monday, July 06, 2009

THE HAMMOND STORY SO FAR... B.C. Genealogical Society General Meeting - July 8, 2009

The next B.C. Genealogical Society General Meeting -
Wednesday, 8 July, 2009, 7:30 pm

Edmonds Community Centre, 7282 Kingsway (Kingsway & Edmonds), Burnaby V5E 1G3

Our speaker will be Brenda Smith, well known in British Columbia as a genealogical speaker. Her topic will be:

THE HAMMOND STORY SO FAR...

The Hammond Family Project is an ongoing activity of the Family History Committee of Maple Ridge Historical Society.

Since 2002, the project has gathered and compiled information about the family of John and William Hammond, founders of the British Columbia community of Port Hammond.

Hear how this project furthers the community story, contributes to the
history of British Columbia, and helps participants develop and practice
research skills.

BCGS website: www.bcgs.ca

Also coming up at the BC Genealogical Society this month -

BCGS Annual Open House at the Walter Draycott Library,
July 19th, 1 -3 pm. Members, friends and relatives are welcome.

BCGS Annual Library Week at the Walter Draycott Library,
July 20-25, 10am - 3 pm daily. Free to all interested.
Plan now to bring a friend or relative to introduce them to our
genealogical collections and to the BC Genealogical Society.

During Library Week this year, you will be able to use databases for
England and Wales research, etc. at FindmyPast.com for free at our library as well as the on-line databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Findmypast: www.findmypast.com
New England Historic Genealogical Society: www.newenglandancestors.org


B.C.G.S. General Meetings: the second Wednesday of every month, 7:30 pm at Edmonds Community Centre, 7282 Kingsway (Kingsway & Edmonds), Burnaby V5E 1G3

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Happy Canada Day from Vancouver BC Canada


Happy Canada Day to all, or Fête du Canada, or even, Dominion Day, as it was.
July (Year undisclosed), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Family Collection.