Tag: Montreal

IT’S ALL THERE IN BLACK & WHITE Sorry, still doesn’t mean it’s true

Digging into the family tree often leads to more questions than answers. This time I found the answer. Long before Library and Archives Canada started adding their WWI soldier files online I was systematically ordering the records of family members. (On a side note these records are a treasure and the fact that they are…

The Gazette, Montreal B/M/D – Oct 12, 1957

Here is another installment of birth, marriages, and deaths from newspapers kept by my grandparents, John & Beatrice Dever. Indexed names – The Gazette Oct 12, 1957 Births Arnold Cliffe Connolly Dyson Heath Hyde Lariviere Mathewson Phelan Ross Saunders Ward Whitman Engagements Callicott-Paul Deaths Axelrad Blair Brodie Cleary Clement Dalton Davey Dever Doyle Duplex Dupre Elsy…

The Normandie Roof in Montreal

Here is a great picture of a men’s social gathering on the Normandie Roof in Montreal. A Google search tells me that the Normadie Roof was located in the Royal Hotel in Montreal. My grandfather John Melody Dever is a part of this group of men. Grandpa appears to be in his late thirties so…