Tag: Montreal
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A Family Court Dispute Found in Google Books
Covering all your bases when doing a search for your family should also include a great resource that Google has called Google Books. How to find this treasure trove of information is by using the Google search bar and either typing in ‘Books’ or on the Google toolbar is a More button which creates a drop-down…
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When Grandma Became President of the Rebekahs
Today is the day of my grandmother Beatrice Mary Victoria Jordan’s birth in Quebec City. In wanting to mark the day I also realized it is also the 60th anniversary (one day late) of her becoming the International President of the Rebekahs at their Annual Session in Miami, Florida. Beatrice had worked hard in the…
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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…
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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…
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A Moment in Time
My dad was born Feb. 1, 1938 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. This was a huge event in my grandparents lives. They had married later in life, she was 29 and he was 31 on January 28, 1928 and the event took place at Taylor Presbyterian Church. It would a month short…
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Tracking Peter Jordan in the Quebec City Directory
A wonderfully useful tool when tracking an ancestor’s movements is the City Directories. My ancestor Peter Jordan was born in 1878 in Quebec City, in the 1881 census he is living with his grandparent’s as his father was a widow and off soldiering in Kingston, ON. In the 1891 census Peter is reunited with his father,…
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