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Canada Lookup Request / Re: B.C. Lookups please - Completed
« on: Saturday 31 December 22 02:24 GMT (UK)  »
Sandra,

Wow!  Thank you so much for following up on this old post.  A lot has happened in the interim, retirement, moving, Covid, etc. and I think a number of these relationship questions have fallen off my radar.  I will circle back and make sure they are complete.

I really appreciate the newspaper obit links and look forward to seeing what new gems of information they might provide.

I wish you all the best of the season and a safe and healthy New Year!

Thank you again!  :)

Joellen

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Thursday 24 August 17 22:41 BST (UK)  »
I saw your post on Ethel's phone listing as I just finished checking 1969.  Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.....  Lots of plodding, sip, sip. ;D  followed....

I started at Sep 1964 assuming changes would be needed at the publisher 2-3 months before year end for the 1965 "widow" entry i worked backwards, but got through all of 1964 without any luck, started last night and finished today.  At that point I was hoping I had not missed the entry or that the missing editions (all of Jan 1964) were not the ones I needed. Considering that if Frank may have died before the publishers deadline for the 1964 Directory, then it was possible Ethel had been a widow during 1964 also.  Fortunately I was successful on the second item for 1963 which I checked.  Frank passed away Dec 1, 1963 and is buried at Montreal Memorial Gardens also.  The Obit was in the Dec. 3 paper.

While I could not search the papers, most editions had an index on Page 1 which was reasonably accurate. With the Go To page number inserted it became quicker checking each edition. It was quite interesting to see the old headlines and recall events from the 60's. 

I appreciate your help as I would not have gotten the Dand family "wrapped up" so to speak without your suggestions.

Many thanks and Cheers!
Jo


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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Wednesday 23 August 17 19:51 BST (UK)  »
DB,
Thanks for the nudge, I probably typed in the wrong date.  I did go back and check and it appears there was more than one John McFetrick living in Montreal or in this case Pointe Claire.  I was actually looking for John Francis McFetrick and assumed the Francis was omitted.  The Gazette Obit was more detailed than the Ottawa Journal item and mentioned the wife's name which was not Ethel Dand.  So, I am back square one and hoping another clue to Frank's death crops up either on-line or in the boxes I am sorting through.  And failing that, I have will have lots of browsing in the Montreal Gazette (accompanied by a glass or wine, or two!) ;)

Hoping for more successes,
Cheers,
Joellen

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Saturday 19 August 17 18:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi DB,

Yes, the Urgel website was circular to say the least :P.  Given the current interest in family research I was surprised there was no link or direction given such as provided by other like facilities.

Thank you for info on Stuart Robertson, I was going to circle back to see if I could find the husbands.  Both had one liners in the Ottawa paper so was hoping for something more locally with specifics.  Ethel's husband had a notice in the Feb 1. edition of the Ottawa paper but I see that the January editions of the Gazette are not available.  I presume that Frank McFetrich is also buried in Memorial Gardens so I may have to follow up with Urgel either by calling or snail mail. Surely I can't be the only person looking for older records these days.  At least they are on one site now and your thoughts on Find a Grave bear consideration.

I am over the moon with the information we have found.  I still cannot positively date and identify the fourth sister in the family photo pre/post Mabel's passing in 1941, so Mabel or Margaret in the photo.  I will continue to pour through the old photos and hope something there helps.

I have bookmarked the news site as I know it will come in handy again. ;)

Cheers,
Jo







 

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Friday 18 August 17 17:56 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the explanation as my search engine was not giving showing me any options on the renaming of Memorial Gardens.  Find a Grave only shows 774 entries for this cemetery and naturally none of the ones I hoped to find, presume still a work in progress for this group and location.

I found the (English) website for Urgel Bourgie Memorial Gardens but they do not have a Genealogy link, nor even an e-mail contact listed the offices, although lots of other information  :).  Perhaps at some point I will call and ask if they can provide a grave location but I now have the DOD's and the Obits which are most important.

Thank you again and Cheers,
Jo

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Friday 18 August 17 02:54 BST (UK)  »
Eureka :o
Plodding along through the Montreal Gazette (and a glass or 2 of wine later) I found Catherine Dand died January 25 1948, burial arrangements to be determined.

Thank you DB for the Gazette link, fortunately I did not have to plod through too many issues and they were ones that still survive digitally.  This has been a huge brick wall so tickled pink it has been broken.

Now on to the next (after a celebratory glass, of course!) ;D

Cheers,
Jo




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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Friday 18 August 17 01:27 BST (UK)  »
 :)
Wow! I got lucky! 
I just found obit for John Dand, "died May 2 1948, beloved husband of the late Catherine Smith...Funeral at DA Collins Chapel, on Tuesday.. to Montreal Memorial Park."  However, searching on Montreal Memorial Park, it seems to come up as Notre-Dame des Neiges.  Are they one and the same?

So back to looking for Catherine, one down, one to go!
Thanks so much for the Gazette link!

Jo

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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Friday 18 August 17 00:43 BST (UK)  »
DB

Thank you for your search suggestions.

I saw the Montreal Cemetery Group site last week and searched with no luck.  Tried again today as I was not sure I was using it correctly, still nothing.  Double checked using Mabel Smith/nee Dand and she showed up. So I searched correctly on the site, just no parents to be found.

The family likely attended Westmount United Church/Melville as Mabel's burial 1941, Jessie's marriage 1933 and Ethel's marriage 1938 show up but I cannot find any records after 1941 on the A* website for Drouin records.  The name is sometimes mis-transcribed as "Daud" and I checked that but still no success.

I went through the directories from your link and found listings for John Dand from 1941 to 1947 at 5936 Iberveille.  Did not check earlier dates based on Mabel's death.  So am assuming (referencing my father's photo notes) that wife Catherine likely died sometime in 1948 . 

At this time I am plodding through the Montreal Gazette link that you sent me hoping to find an obituary for Catherine Dand.  Have completed March 1948, so many more to go and hoping that something was actually submitted by the daughters and it is not one of the missing editions.

So, plodding along ::)

Jo


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Canada Lookup Request / Re: Dand deaths in Quebec
« on: Wednesday 16 August 17 20:55 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Skoosh.  I did not know that.

Looking at my tree, there are several named Andrew Dand.  Interesting!  I also recall my Grandmother nee Dand calling all her little dogs "Dandy", so her little play on the surname no doubt.

jojo

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