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Research in Other Countries => Canada Lookup Request => Canada => Canada Lookup Requests Completed => Topic started by: Janine on Sunday 02 May 04 19:14 BST (UK)
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I have done quite a bit of research on my relatives in Canada ... if anyone in the UK needs help with relatives who have emigrated to Canada, I can come up with some helpful links for you.
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Janine,
We would love to have you Canadian links. ;D
I will move this message into the Emigration board where they will be of most use.
Kazza.
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I have done quite a bit of research on my relatives in Canada ... if anyone in the UK needs help with relatives who have emigrated to Canada, I can come up with some helpful links for you.
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Janine, can you kindly help regarding my great-uncle, please? - Isaac Newton b 1878 emigrated early 1900s possibly joined the police force.
Thanks.
Joy
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Hello Janine
I have just posted a query for Emigrants to Canada.
My James O'Neill born 1850 Galway Ireland,son of James & Mary O'Neill (nee Walker) had his name scratched from a departure list "Strathmore" that departed from London on 6th October 1870.
His mother and sister departed and arrived in Australia in January 1871.
Did Young James get other ideas and head for Canada or America !! Any ideas...
Kimberley
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It has just come to light that my grandmother emigrated to Canada, probably in 1949 or 1950. She gave my mother up for adoption in England, and did not turn up for the final hearing in October 1949. We know she was a State Registered nurse, very possibly QARANC (British army). We have no idea where she went after arriving in Canada.
I seem to be going round in circles, because there doesn't appear to be one nice central records office like there is in the UK, with all births, marriages and deaths. Or am I just looking in the wrong place?
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Pam,
Is your area of interest the 1950s? If so, finding the kind of information you are looking for online may be difficult.
Here is the link to the Canadian Genealogy Centre, hosted by Library and Archives Canada:
http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/index_e.html
I hope you will find something there that might help in your search.
~meg
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Thank you for the link. While there were loads of bits and pieces that looked like they may be useful, they seem to be pre-WWI. Is that normal for Canadian geneaology? They seem to be much tighter on timescales for releasing information than we are in the UK.
One thing I wondered - does Canada have a register of nurses, like the UK does?
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Pam, Health Records are a provincial responsibility, and each Province and Territory have custody of their own records. If you go to the Canadian Genealogy Centre's Website again, it will give you contact info for each Province or Territory --
On the Home Page:
Click on 'Sources by Topic' (at top)
Click on 'Employment' (column on left)
Click on 'Medical Personnel' (on left)
Hope this will be of some assistance. As far as your question as to what is 'normal' for Canadian genealogy, I'm afraid I can't answer that one...
~meg
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Pam: The Vital Indexes British Columbia have Death records from 1872-1983. If your grandmother resided in B.C. you might find her death here.
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm
If, she spent her life in Ontario you could try this site.
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/vsmain.htm
Also, the National Archives of Canada "Library & Archives" page might be of some help.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/index-e.html
Good luck!
Pat
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Meg: My apologies for duplicating your information.
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Hi Janine,
I wonder if you can advise me on how to further my rsearch in trying to find my rellies in Canada?
My g.father & his two sisters were sent to Ontario in 1885 from the Stoke on Trent Workhouse, I have the details of my g.father`s marriage, he married Mabel Grant in 1894, & my mother Laura Maud was born there in Hastings County 1896. They left Canada in 1900 and went to Scotland.
His sister Grace Gagan, married Augustus Gartland in 1894, Napana Ontario, in 1903 she had twin sons Jerome & Jerrold, the trail goes cold from then, I cannot find out any more info, such as, when did she die,or did the twins die, have been unable to trace them. Their birth was registered by her sister in law, Maggie Driscoll, she was wife of Michael Gartland, wonder why she registered the birth and not the parents?
G.father`s other sister, I found on the 1891 census, she had been sent to work as domestic servant with Mr & Mrs Hayes, in 1891 she was still with Mrs Catherine Hayes, then a widow, cannot trace Laura Gagan from then, imagine she may have married, but cannot find evidence of her marriage on the sites that are available, I know there has to be relatives there somewhere, my mother had correspondence with them until after WW2, then she stopped writing.
Think she wanted to avoid her family finding out about the past? so I never knew where they were or their surnames, I have only gleaned the above information after a great deal of research (and expense!).
I would welcome any advice you may be able to offer?
thank you
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I am particularly interested in sources of immigration records and bearing in mind that I have only the vaguest of year numbers and no idea of the place of landing, I fear that such may prove an impossible task. My relatives (surname CRAIGEN) left Aberdeen/Kincardine early 1900s.
Any and all help will be appreciated.
Les
Bedford UK
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Les,
If you go to the Canadian Genealogy Site (link already posted in this section), under the topic for Immigration, there are sixteen Craigens listed. More information can be found on the site, but here is the list:
Immigration Records (1925-1935)
Surname Given name Age Nationality Year of arrival
1 Craigen Ben 50 Ir 1926
2 Craigen Charles 26 Sco 1926
3 Craigen Charles 26 Sco 1926
4 Craigen Charles 40 Sco 1926
5 Craigen Elizabeth 4 Sco 1927
6 Craigen George 11 Sco 1927
7 Craigen Helen 28 Sco 1926
8 Craigen Henry 21 Ir 1926
9 Craigen Henry 27 En 1928
10 Craigen Jean 37 Sco 1927
11 Craigen Lee 27 Ir 1925
12 Craigen Lee 28 Ir 1926
13 Craigen Peter 5 Sco 1927
14 Craigen Thomas 37 Sco 1927
15 Craigen Thomas 7 Sco 1927
16 Craigen William 2 Sco 1927
Good luck in your search,
~meg
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Hello Janice trying to find my relatives in Canada.
The family emigrated in the 1930's.I saw my fathers cousins during the war .One was in the canadian Navy and one in the Airforce.They are dead now but thier families are in Calgary.Name of Cannings.The Family originated from Leicester. Story in the family that they once owned a large bingo Hall in Calgary.Sylviao
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Thanks Meg, appreciate the trouble you took to get that list for me.
Subsequent research indicates that the ancestors left Scotland in 1907 so none of those on the list could be mine. Nevertheless, it is all safely filed away 'just in case' !! :)
Les
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My John Jenkins left Ireland during the potato famine w/wife Mary/Maria J. Salmon Dwyer Jenkins and kids John , Charles, Ralph and Eliza. Mother Mary (m) before to a Dwyer but prob. (m) to Jenkins by 1840 due to kids ages. Son John may actually have been Dwyer but went by Jenkins, he was 5 years older than next child. Kids all (b) between 1833 and 1842 in Ireland. Family history says came from County Cork. May have gone to Canada first but were in New York by 1850. Living w/them in 1850 was a Catherine Hanson or Henson age 22 (b) Ire.. Her relationship unknown. Father John (b) between 1797 and 1817, Mother Mary (b) between 1804 and 1816. Different records give different ages so unsure exactly when born. Were either Catholic or once found connected to Church of England. If they went to Canada first prob. arrived there between 1842 to 1850 before going on to N.Y.. Can you check any records which may help me find them in Canada? I have checked many ships lists w/no luck. Don't know if they left from Ire. or England as I know it was cheaper for them to travel to Eng. and ship from there. Do Know they prob. went to Quebec in Canada if they did go to Canada. Thanks in advance for any help. Wish I could locate them in Ireland!!!
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Hi Group:
Have been off searching out all sorts of goodies about a Great Great Uncle who rode with the 90th Battalion out of Fort Garry, Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1885 during the Louis Riel Rebellion. Very intresting and much learned along the way.
After trying to get into Manitoba Vital Stats (can be googled) and never getting anywhere, suddenly discovered that the least information given them, brings the best results. BMD - l00, 90 and 80 years old are available with certificate numbers, but just use the SURNAME only. Had tried every manner of getting info on G. Grandparents marriages, etc. and SURNAME only finally brought the desired results.
Also found out that in 1881 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada already had HENDERSON DIRECTORIES - these gave addresses of city (town?) dwellers and in some cases the earlier gave names and land descriptions of persons living outside Winnipeg. The Winnipeg Library - Librarian Research Assistant looked up things in Hendersone's Directory for me and also pulled 3 items from the Free Press of 1888. The free press is available at the library on film. One should never overlood their library in Canada. Am now on the trail of photos of (hopefully) this G.G. Uncle who fought at Fish Creek and Batoche in the Louis Riel Rebellion with the 90th. Librarian gave me a couple of sites for Archives and Museums that hold pictures from that era. Hope this helps someone looking for persons in Canada. Good Hunting.
Lauraine
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I would like to get your links. I am trying to find out when my great grandfather immigrated to Canada from Hitchins, Hertfordshire, England. Family legend says about 1894-96. He was born 1876 name Albert Kingsley. Also his brother William came at a later date, 1900? And a Dorothy Kingsley aged 14 in 1901. Can you give me any idea where to look? I have a bunch of lookerupers. Herbert Kingsley born 1886 in St. Ippolyts,Hertfordshire, England. I can track them in England but lost some in Canada. Any help would be great
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All right I am wearing a huge load of guilt on my shoulders now. I have been very busy for many months and have neglected my searching. And obviously helping.
Canadian provinces differ greatly in being helpful ... British COlumbia where I live is a very good website. As for questions regarding central info for nurses, our lawyers (solicitors/barristers) have a "Bar Association"; physicians have a "college" in each province which lists them. Canadian census is same as in UK, 1901 has been released and is sort of helpful ... but not transcribed and difficult to decipher handwriting. www.collectionscanada.ca
www.canadagenweb.blogspot.com
Alberta Family Histories Society www.censuslinks.com
"canada 411" or "teldir" are good sites for current addresses and phone #'s
http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca
all canadian provinces also have counties, although we do not refer to them as much as the UK does
hope this helps anyone searching, will add more and look up what I can on those requests
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Mars Barr - that would be NAPANEE, Ontario. And for others ...
From my own research on Irish ancestors, (among the million or more who left Ireland in famine) most of them settled in Ontario and some in Quebec. I gather from extensive research that many farm workers travelled quite freely back and forth over the border for work, marrying willy nilly - each other, canadians, americans ... unlike today with our soon to be armed customs gates! I did find a skeleton in my closet ... a Great Grandad who had 7 children, one of whom was right in the middle and was illegitimate ... so the entire family sort of disappeared from the records for a bit, very hard to trace.
It takes a lot of work and imagination. For example I know that my grandfather Collier moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta, from County Erin, Ontario around 1903 - so I typed in search "postmasters canada" as I knew he was one, and found a most interesting list in Canadian archives. I have written to all the Colliers still in that area and have had no replies. Disappointing, but .... never give up. If you have any idea what city or county your ancestors may have emigrated to, just type that and province in your search box. You never know.
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www.automatedgenealogy.com
this is the site that has the complete transcription on the canadian 1901 census done by volunteer transcribers, and most if not all of the western provinces census - manitoba, alberta and sask. from 1906. These are also all matched to a link window to the original image form the archives of canada. It is an amazing project and I have found it very handy - since in 1901 they asked for your birthday - not just your age.
(I was gonna look up the name sin the string - but i thought you all would enjoy the link..)
Tom
P.S. - I am in Toronto - always glad to help out with ideas from this side of the pond :-)
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Wonderful Tommy, thank you! I was not aware of this one. I am in Vancouver B.C. ;D
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Les,
There are 10 CRAIGENs listed here:
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02010602_e.html
Soldiers of the First World War
(Government of Canada website)
If you view the images, the first page of the attestation form should list place of birth. Depending on your relatives' ages, perhaps you might find them here.
Regards,
Josephine