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Offline peakoverload

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Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« on: Saturday 25 March 17 22:56 GMT (UK) »
I'm trying to trace a few people that I know emigrated to Canada.

Leonard Ashley Cooper b 02/05/1886 in Plaistow, Essex, England but moved to Canada some time after 1901, possibly 1908. He appears on a few passenger lists and border crossing documents. I know he worked as a tanner and later as a machinist and the last record I can find for him was on a passenger list returning to Canada on 19/07/1960

I also know he married Ethel May Barnett (nee Hanbridge) on 11/02/1922 in Wellington, Ontario, Canada

The thing is I can't find any other record for him in Canada. According to a family tree on Ancestry they had two children:

Frederick Ashley Cooper b 26/04/1924 Windsor, Ontario - d Aug 1994 North Bay, Ontario

Leonard George Cooper b 06/08/1925 Windsor, Ontario - d 10/10/2002 (don't know where)

But I cannot find a single Canadian record to confirm these people even existed. I've got accounts for Ancestry and Find My Past and both draw blanks. Is there a better or specific site for locating Canadian BMD's or are these dates too recent to be online for Canada?
Johnson: London & Maidstone
Foster: Essex
Leach: London
Jennings, Camberwell, London
Gray: South London
Dashwood: London
Mason: Maidstone & London
Neville/Stiff: Hampshire & USA

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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 25 March 17 23:19 GMT (UK) »
This any good? I found some for Nova Scotia there

https://www.deathindexes.com/canada.html
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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 25 March 17 23:30 GMT (UK) »

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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 25 March 17 23:36 GMT (UK) »
Here is the index search for obits in the Windsor Star paper

http://projects.windsorpubliclibrary.com/digi/obits/index.php

Looks like your Leonard Sr's obituary was in the Windsor Star on July 28 1971

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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 25 March 17 23:38 GMT (UK) »
Ethel Hansbridge Cooper (wife of Leonard A.) obit is in the Jun 14 1983 paper.

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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 25 March 17 23:58 GMT (UK) »
I don't have a current Ancestry sub, but you can take a look at their "Canada, Voters lists 1935-1980" collection.  You should find Leonard and his family..

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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 26 March 17 12:27 BST (UK) »
Looks like your Leonard Sr's obituary was in the Windsor Star on July 28 1971

You need to scroll up from where the link goes to. The entry is 3 notices above it.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jsu/

According to the notice, Leonard and Ethel also lists a daughter although her maiden surname is not Cooper. Was Ethel married more than once?

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Canada: Patterson, Brown, Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Johnston(e), Gorsuch, Kitchin/Kitchen
United States: Patterson, Smith, Brown, Vance, Bower(s), Newberry, Best, Love, Gorsuch
England (Northumberland): Brown, Whitfield, Henderson
Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, East Lothian): Johnston(e), Bell, Galloway, Campbell, Robertson, Williamson, Thomson, Crawford
Germans from Russia: Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Meach, Lorenz

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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 26 March 17 12:33 BST (UK) »
Ethel Hansbridge Cooper (wife of Leonard A.) obit is in the Jun 14 1983 paper.

That's a mistake in the database. In checking that edition of the Windsor Sun the only obit is for Ethel Lucy Cooper (nee Hill). Also the entry that gives the Hanbridge maiden name gives a middle initial of "L" while Leonard's wife's was "M" for May.

The entry for Ethel M. Cooper whose obituary was in the 28 Jan 1983 edition is the correct one. Here's a link (scroll down to the right - it's the second under the Deaths heading): http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jsv/

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Canada: Patterson, Brown, Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Johnston(e), Gorsuch, Kitchin/Kitchen
United States: Patterson, Smith, Brown, Vance, Bower(s), Newberry, Best, Love, Gorsuch
England (Northumberland): Brown, Whitfield, Henderson
Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, East Lothian): Johnston(e), Bell, Galloway, Campbell, Robertson, Williamson, Thomson, Crawford
Germans from Russia: Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Meach, Lorenz

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Re: Cannot find BMD's for Canada
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 26 March 17 12:49 BST (UK) »
Here's a link to the grave marker for Leonard and Ethel in Windsor Memorial Gardens:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jsw/

Jacquie
Canada: Patterson, Brown, Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Johnston(e), Gorsuch, Kitchin/Kitchen
United States: Patterson, Smith, Brown, Vance, Bower(s), Newberry, Best, Love, Gorsuch
England (Northumberland): Brown, Whitfield, Henderson
Scotland (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, East Lothian): Johnston(e), Bell, Galloway, Campbell, Robertson, Williamson, Thomson, Crawford
Germans from Russia: Haidenger/Heidinger, Meyer, Meach, Lorenz