Re:Sharing Useful Links

[Janine]

I have done quite a bit of research on my relatives in Canada ... if anyone in the UK needs help with relatives who have emigrated to Canada, I can come up with some helpful links for you.
 

[Kazza]

Janine,

We would love to have you Canadian links.  

I will move this message into the Emigration board where they will be of most use.

Kazza.

[Joy Dean]

I have done quite a bit of research on my relatives in Canada ... if anyone in the UK needs help with relatives who have emigrated to Canada, I can come up with some helpful links for you.
 

Janine, can you kindly help regarding my great-uncle, please? - Isaac Newton b 1878 emigrated early 1900s possibly joined the police force.
Thanks.
Joy

[Kimberley]

Hello Janine
I have just posted a query for Emigrants to Canada.
My James O'Neill born 1850 Galway Ireland,son of James & Mary O'Neill (nee Walker) had his name scratched from a departure list "Strathmore" that departed from London on 6th October 1870.
His mother and sister departed and arrived in Australia in January 1871.


Did Young James get other ideas and head for Canada or America !! Any ideas...
Kimberley

[pampreston]

It has just come to light that my grandmother emigrated to Canada, probably in 1949 or 1950. She gave my mother up for adoption in England, and did not turn up for the final hearing in October 1949. We know she was a State Registered nurse, very possibly QARANC (British army). We have no idea where she went after arriving in Canada.

I seem to be going round in circles, because there doesn't appear to be one nice central records office like there is in the UK, with all births, marriages and deaths. Or am I just looking in the wrong place?

[~meg]

Pam,
Is your area of interest the 1950s?  If so, finding the kind of information you are looking for online may be difficult.
Here is the link to the Canadian Genealogy Centre, hosted by Library and Archives Canada:
http://www.genealogy.gc.ca/index_e.html

I hope you will find something there that might help in your search.
~meg



 

[pampreston]

Thank you for the link. While there were loads of bits and pieces that looked like they may be useful, they seem to be pre-WWI. Is that normal for Canadian geneaology? They seem to be much tighter on timescales for releasing information than we are in the UK.

One thing I wondered - does Canada have a register of nurses, like the UK does?

[~meg]

Pam, Health Records are a provincial responsibility, and each Province and Territory have custody of their own records.  If you go to the Canadian Genealogy Centre's Website again, it will give you contact info for each Province or Territory --
On the Home Page:
Click on 'Sources by Topic' (at top)
Click on 'Employment' (column on left)
Click on 'Medical Personnel' (on left)

Hope this will be of some assistance.  As far as your question as to what is 'normal' for Canadian genealogy, I'm afraid I can't answer that one...
~meg

[Tunbridge]

Pam:  The Vital Indexes British Columbia have Death records from 1872-1983.  If your grandmother resided in B.C. you might find her death here.

http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm

If, she spent her life in Ontario you could try this site.

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/vsmain.htm

Also, the National Archives of Canada "Library & Archives" page might be of some help.

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/index-e.html

Good luck!
Pat