History & Genealogy
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Family Tree Maker
2012 for PC
Family Tree Maker
For Mac
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Stories of Love... Well Documented
Column published: 06 February 2007
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Éva Gauthier
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The collections of Library and Archives Canada are filled with fabulous romantic treasures! A number of these gems, such as manuscripts including love letters and musical works, have been digitized and made accessible on our website.
With Saint Valentine's Day drawing near, we invite you to come online and listen to countless love songs from the past. Visit our Virtual Gramophone site, which has been expanding since 1998, and click on Podcasting to access songs grouped by theme in the Gallery of Podcasts.
All recordings that are accessible on the Virtual Gramophone site date from the 1900s to the 1940s. Superstars of classical and popular music are featured, as is a variety of styles and genres, including opera, folk, love songs, musicals and show tunes.
Rose Ouellette
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Among the classical vocalists is Emma Albani (1847-1930), the first Canadian opera singer to attain international stardom; the mezzo-soprano Éva Gauthier (1885-1958) of Ottawa, first classical singer to perform the songs of American composer George Gershwin; and baritone Joseph Saucier (1869-1941), the first French Canadian to make a recording (ca. 1904).
Popular music is equally represented, with the talented Alexandre Desmarteaux (ca. 1880-1926), an actor who loved to punctuate his songs with laughter; Rose Ouellette or "La Poune" (1903-1996), star of the stage, radio, television and movie screen; and Mary Travers Bolduc or "La Bolduc" (1894-1941) who delighted in mixing romance with everyday humour.
Continuing the romantic theme, Library and Archives Canada will launch a website in 2008 on love and marriage. Excerpts from personal diaries, civil and church records, newspaper clippings, photographs and artwork will illustrate how the rituals of love and marriage became part of 19th-century mores in Canada.
Library and Archives Canada is pleased to share these treasures of romance and wishes you a Happy Saint Valentine's Day!
Website: The Virtual Gramophone
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French & Native North American
Marriages & Genealogical Records Series,
Vol. 1 to Vol. 6
Author and compiler Paul Brunnell, a descendant of Hurons from Ontario and Quebec, has published his many years of French, Native, Mi'kmaq, and Metis research into the six volumes that you find here. In his own words Mr. Bunnell says......
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The Roman Catholic Parish
of "Our Lady of The Angels"
Moose Creek,Ontario Baptisms,
Marriages and Burials 1882-1925
NOW ON CD
The content is organized alphabetically by surname. There is also an index to help researchers find others who are mentioned in the transcriptions, such as witnesses, named relatives, etc.....
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Research Guide To
Loyalist Ancestors
(Updated and Revised)
This updated research aid lists most of the locations where United Empire Loyalist records may be found throughout the world, and.......
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The New Loyalist Index
Vol. 1 to Vol. 7
Author and compiler Paul Brunnell, UE has researched United Empire Loyalists for more than 30 years, publishing his findings into the seven volumes that.....
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Trimming Yankee Sails:
Pirates and Privateers
of New Brunswick
Pirates and privateers sailed from New Brunswick ports throughout the 19th century, but their exploits began in earnest during the War of 1812. Amid tales of battles at sea and fortunes lost and won......
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New Brunswick and the Navy:
Four Hundred Years
In 1881, the new Dominion of Canada chose New Brunswick as the base for its naval operations. This the story of New Brunswick's contribution to Canada's storied naval heritage......
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Family Tree Maker for Mac 2
(version 2012)
Makes organizing, researching and sharing your family history easier than ever, whether you're just getting started or already an expert........
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Methodist Obituaries
From The
Christian Guardian,
1891 to 1895
This 11th volume from D.A. McKenzie provides carefully transcribed obituaries for Methodist deaths across Canada with Ontario most heavily represented, Scroll down to Vol. 11 after clicking.......
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