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Category: World War II

  • Protestant Schools in Quebec City

    Protestant Schools in Quebec City

    The question started with “Did my grandmother attend school while she was living in Quebec City?” And it snowballed as it usually does when doing genealogy. I found a book on the BAnQ (National Library and Archives of Quebec) website about Protestant Schools in Quebec. The book is called “Molding our tomorrows: a survey of…

  • WWII Honours & Awards Indexed on Library and Archives Website

    WWII Honours & Awards Indexed on Library and Archives Website

    Looking around the Military Section of the Library and Archives Canada website I came across a link to a searchable database of WWII Canadian Army Overseas Honours and Awards. For fun, I put in a couple of surnames in the hopes of finding a relative mentioned. You how it is, if there is a searchable…

  • What I Found in a WWII Canadian Service File

    What I Found in a WWII Canadian Service File

    While I was working on the book I was compiling for the Jordan family I learned that William or Syd as he was known had served in WWII. I filled out the paperwork from Libray and Archives Canada, sent away for the file, and waited. Yesterday it arrived, an initial look through of the file…