Ottawa Genealogy

Timeline Mar 15 to 17

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Mar 15
44 BC Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1778 Captain James Cook reaches the west coast of Vancouver Island with his ships Resolution and Discovery, on the way to search for a North West Passage from the Pacific.
1827 Shades' Mills became the town of Galt.
1918 "Punch" Imlach, who coached the Toronto Maple Leafs to four Stanley Cups, was born in Toronto.
1964 Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton were married for the first time.
2003 The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).

Mar 16
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
1649 A war party of 1,000 Iroquois overran the town of Saint-Ignace. Father Jean de Brebeuf was tortured to death at the near by Saint-Louis mission.
1846 The Earl of Cathcart was appointed Governor General of British North America.
1916 Canada signs Migratory Bird Treaty with the US; due to Jack Miner's work.
1983 The Rideau Centre opened in Ottawa.

Mar 17
461 According to tradition, St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, died. Other sources list the year as 493.
1649 Father Gabriel Lalement was tortured to death by the Iroquois at Sainte-Marie des Hurons.
1776 British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War.
1829 In Bytown, Irish labourers celebrated St. Patrick's Day by parading. Fighting erupted and one man was killed and many injured.
1858 In Toronto a brawl broke out during the St. Patrick's Day parade. One man was killed.
1964 Canadian Government introduces Canada Pension Plan Bill in House of Commons.

Timeline Mar 13 & 14

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Mar 13
1781 The planet Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
1832 A testimonial dinner for Col. John By, builder of the Rideau Canal, was held at Carmino's Hotel in Kingston.
1855 Percival Lowell, the American astronomer who helped discover Pluto and believed that there was life on Mars, was born.

Mar 14
1782 Sir John Johnson (1742-1830) became Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in British North America.
1860 Thomas Leopold "Carbide" Wilson (1860-1915) was born on a farm near Princeton, Ontario. [My home town - Edward]. He designed and patented the first electric arc lamps in Hamilton, Ontario. Later he discovered an economical process for creating calcium carbide which is used in the production of acetylene gas. He also lived in Ottawa where he built a carbide plant and also built a summer house on Meech Lake, which is now owned by the federal government.
1879 Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was born.
1962 Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores his 500th goal against the New York Rangers; second NHLer to score 500 goals, after Maurice Richard.

Ottawa Branch Meeting - 17 March 2012 Webcast

2012-03-12T09:34:00.001-04:00

The next meeting of Ottawa Branch on Saturday 17 March at 1:30pm will be our first attempt to webcast to our membership. The physical meeting will take place in Room 115 of the new City of Ottawa Central Archives at 100 Tallwood Drive, Ottawa. But Branch members who cannot make it to the venue are welcome to join us via Live Meeting, courtesy of the National Institute of Genealogical Studies.

Topic: Discover the World of Webinars! We will showcase some free providers of webinars as well as let you know how to access them from home!

The webcast service is only available to paid up members of Ottawa Branch. The physical meeting at the City Archives is open to the public.

Timeline Mar 11 & 12

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Mar 11
1756 Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm appointed commander of French military forces in New France.
1903 Lawrence Welk, American bandleader and showman, was born.
1904 The Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 for the Stanley Cup.
1935 The Bank of Canada began operation in Ottawa.
1941 US President Roosevelt signed into law the Lend-Lease Bill, providing war supplies to countries fighting the Axis.
1879 Guelph incorporated as a city.
1949 Canada helps draft North Atlantic Security Treaty with Britain, USA, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Norway. This leads to the creation of NATO.

Mar 12
1820 Alexander Mackenzie, explorer, North West Company partner and the first person to cross the North American continent and reach the Pacific over land, died in Scotland.
1930 Lt.-Col. William George "Billy" Barker was killed in a crash at Rockcliffe airport in Ottawa. During WW I he had shot down 53 German planes.
1930 Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt.

Ontario Genealogical Society Conference 2012

2012-03-08T22:55:00.000-05:00

The Early Bird deadline for Conference 2012 is almost here.

OGS Conference 2012: Borders & Bridges: 1812 - 2012, will be held 1-3 June 2012 at St. Lawrence College, 100 Portsmouth Avenue, Kingston, Ontario.

The War of 1812 was a border dispute between England and the United States. Issues such as borders; land settlement and pension records (on both sides of the border) of participants in the war of 1812 and other wars; immigration and migration; and genealogical resources in areas bordering eastern Ontario as well as in Ontario will be among the topics covered by speakers at the Conference. Other sessions will cover 21^st century topics such as DNA, Google and other technology relevant to genealogical research.

Of particular interest to people curious about family history may be the pre-conference workshop “Starting Out in Genealogy”, offered Friday, June 1, 9:30 am – noon. People can register for this or any other Friday workshop without registering for the entire conference.

Registration is now open at http://www.ogs.on.ca/conference2012/registration and the early bird rate ends on 31 March.

Organizations that would like to exhibit in the Vendor area can find information at http://www.ogs.on.ca/conference2012/marketplace.

Timeline Mar 6 to 10

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Mar 6
1475 Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter and architect, was born.
1834 York was renamed Toronto and incorporated as a city.
1836 The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
1981 Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."

Mar 7
1792 Sir John Herschel, English astronomer, was born.
1800 Philemon Wright founds Wrightsville, which he later renames Hull, after the birthplace of his parents in England; Wright led a group from Woburn, Massachusetts to the Ottawa Valley.
1842 Queen's University opened at Kingston, the first university in Ontario.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
1878 The University of Western Ontario in London was incorporated.
1913 Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) died at age 52.
1926 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.
1939 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians record their signature tune, Auld Lang Syne, for the First time, on Decca Records; Lombardo born in London, Ontario.

Mar 8
1702 England's Queen Anne ascended the throne upon the death of King William III.
1867 The British House of Lords gives final reading to the British North America Act.
1896 Charlotte Witton was born in Renfrew. She became the Ottawa's first woman mayor in 1951.
1945 International Women's Day first celebrated on this day in Canada and around the world.
1982 British House of Commons passes the Canada Act, allowing Canada to patriate its constitution.

Mar 9
1934 Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut, first space traveler, was born.
1959 Mattel's Barbie doll, created by Ruth Handler, made its public debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

Mar 10
1496 Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain.
1861 Pauline Johnson was born at Chiefswood on the Six Nations Grand River Reserve. She was the daughter of Chief Henry Martin and Emily Howells of Bristol, England.
1876 The first successful voice transmission over Alexander Graham Bell's telephone took place in Boston as his assistant heard Bell say, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
1927 A bill was introduced in the Ontario Legislature establishing the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

Timeline Mar 4 & 5

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Mar 4
1681 England's King Charles II granted a charter to William Penn for an area of land that later became Pennsylvania.
1791 The Constitutional Act dividing Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada was introduced into the British House of Commons by Prime Minister William Pitt.
1814 American and British troops fought the Battle of Longwoods on Battle Hill at Wardsville, between London and Thamesville.
1871 Sandford Fleming appointed engineer in charge of the Canadian Pacific Railway survey.
1881 St. Thomas gets city charter.
1971 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau married Margaret Sinclair of Vancouver. First Prime Minister to marry while in office.

Mar 5
1512 Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer, was born.
1770 The Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers, taunted by a crowd of colonists, opened fire, killing five people.
1838 Founding of the village of Paris, Ontario.
1838 The town of Kingston was incorporated.
1967 George P. Vanier, Canada's 19th Governor General, died at age 79.

Timeline Mar 1 to 3

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Mar 1
1632 Samuel de Champlain appointed first Governor of the royal colony of New France.
1815 Governor George Prevost is officially notified of the Peace of Ghent.
1881 Henry Birks opens a larger jewellery store on St. James Street in Montreal.
1944 The Canadian Government ends meat rationing.

Mar 2
1831 Upper Canada Assembly passes act legalizing marriages by Methodist ministers.
1877 City of Belleville incorporated.
1877 City of Brantford incorporated.
1916 Ontario's Temperance Act was passed.
1965 The movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere in New York.

Mar 3
1838 Five hundred American sympathizers of the Upper Canada rebellion were repelled at Point Pelee.
1847 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1890 Norman Bethune was born at Gravenhurst.
1921 University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announces their team's discovery of insulin.
1942 First combat flight of the Toronto-built Avro Lancaster bomber.
1962 Carine Wilson the first woman senator in Canada died.
1967 The federal government appointed a royal commission on the status of women.

Anniversaries

2012-03-01T07:03:00.002-05:00

To blow my own horn a bit;

8th Anniversary
Yesterday I completed 8 years of 'virtual' Walking around Canada. Since leaving St. John's NFLD on 1 March 2004 I have walked over 10,550 K's and am now walking up the 'Top of the World Highway' just west of Dawson City, YK and am heading thru Alaska back to Whitehorse, then ?? Last stop was Inuvik, NWT, at the top of the Dempster Hwy.

100th Anniversary
On 19 April 2012 it will be the 100th Anniv of the sinking of the Titanic. A connection to Ottawa was the fact that Charles Melville Hayes, the President of the Grand Trunk RR, was on board heading home for the opening celebrations of the Chateau Laurier Hotel which were to be held on 26 April 1912. The opening was not held and Sir Wilfred Laurier signed the register on 1 June 1912 to begin operations. This year they will celebrate the 100th anniv. starting 1 June 2012.
Ref; Ottawa Citizen 17 Feb 2012 pgs C1 and C8.

200th Anniversaries
In 1811 Ira Honeywell settled in Nepean Twp, Con. 1, Lot 26 with his wife and son. This lot is just up Woodroffe Ave not far from new Ottawa City Archives. The Nepean Museum has built a representative cabin in which they would have lived. There is no known Genealogy of this family available locally altho I have started one on PAF on branch computer.
In 1812/13 Braddish Billings settled in Gloucester Twp on a lot in Junction Gore. An extensive genealogy of his family is on the branch computer and also on the branch website. I would like to know if anyone has a connection to these two early settlers or to those who settled in present day Ottawa before the start of the Rideau Canal construction.

Timeline Feb 29

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Feb 29
Leap Year Day

1704 The Deerfield, Massachusetts massacre took place with the attack by Major Jean-Baptist de Rouville and Abenaki Indians on this frontier settlement. About 43 civilians were killed and over 100 taken prisoner and marched back to Quebec. A number of my ancestors were killed in this raid and Benjamin Burt and his wife Sarah Beldin were taken prisoner. After extensive negotiations they were returned to Boston by ship about two years later. A son was born on board ship and named Seaborn Burt, my ancestor. [Edward]

1796 The Jay Treaty was proclaimed defining the boundary between Canadian and American lands.
1812 John Burrows Honey settles 200 acres in what is now downtown Ottawa.
1980 Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers becomes the First NHL player to score 800 career goals. This is his final year in pro hockey.

Timeline Feb 28

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Feb 28
1860 Woodstock College opened, Woodstock, Ontario.
1901 Linus Pauling, the American Nobel Prize-winning chemist and political activist, was born.
1925 Ottawa was shaken by an earthquake for the first time in its history.
1952 Vincent Massey installed as First Canadian-born Governor General of Canada; serves 1952-59; former President of the Massey-Harris Company 1921-25; Canada's First Ambassador to the United States 1926-30; Canadian High Commissioner in London 1935-46.
2010 Closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC. Canada wins the gold medal in men's hockey with the overtime goal of Sydney Crosby. Canada wins 14 gold medals the most ever won by one country in the Winter Olympics.

Timeline Feb 26 & 27

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Feb 26
1794 Augustus Jones began his first official survey of Yonge St.
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the island of Elba to begin his second conquest of France.
1920 Parliament assembled for the first time in the rebuilt Parliament Buildings. The old building were destroyed by fire in 1916.
1920 The government passed the Dominion Elections Act giving the federal vote to every eligible Canadian over 21, male or female. With exceptions.
1960 Ann Heggtveit of Ottawa won the 1960 Winter Olympics Slalom gold medal at Squaw Valley. CA.

Feb 27
1796 Yonge St. from York to the headwaters of Lake Huron was opened by a detachment of the Queen's Rangers.
1862 Nicholas Sparks died. He was Bytown's first tycoon and served on the first town council in 1847.
1909 Ontario received its official coat of arms by a proclamation issued on behalf of King Edward VII.

Timeline Feb 22 to 25

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Feb 22
1732 George Washington, the first president of the United States, was born in the Virginia Colony.
1813 Lt-Col "Red George" Macdonnell of the Glengarry Light Infantry set out from Prescott with a force of some 400 regulars and militia to attack Ogdensburg, New York. They routed the American garrison.
1903 Morley Edward Callaghan was born in Toronto.

Feb 23
1633 Samuel Pepys, English diarist and naval administrator, was born.
1685 George Frideric Handel, German born English Composer, was born in Germany.
1782 Guy Carleton named Commander in Chief of British North America.
1836 The siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.
1875 Hull incorporated as a city; formerly Wrightville.
1893 Former Governor General Lord Stanley donates the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, later known as the Stanley Cup, to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Champions.
1909 John McCurdy flies the AEA-designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about 9 metres for 2.5 km at speed of up to 65 kph across the ice of Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia; First airplane flight in Canada by a Canadian; First powered flight in the British Empire.
1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they had cloned an adult mammal, producing a lamb named Dolly.

Feb 24
1582 Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.)
1825 Sir Richard W Scott, secretary of state for Canada from 1874-78 and 1896-1908, and father of the Canada Temperance Act of 1878, was born in Prescott.
1836 The Bytown Independent and Farmer's Advocate ws established in Bytown by James Johnson.
1986 Tommy Douglas, former Saskatchewan CCF Premier and national NDP leader was the First in North America to bring in government Medicare health plan, dies.
2006 Earthquake of 4.5 in magnitude strikes the Ottawa Valley ranging from Eastern Ontario to Western Quebec.

Feb 25
1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated England's Queen Elizabeth I.
1752 John Graves Simcoe, first Lt. governor of Upper Canada, was born in Cotterstock, England.
1836 Inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.
1873 Enrico Caruso, Italian operatic tenor, was born. Died Aug. 2, 1921.
1903 Frank Michael "King" Clancy was born in Canada.
1972 Ontario Hydro opens $75 million Pickering Nuclear Generating Station; first commercial nuclear power station in Canada.

Timeline Feb 19 to 21

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Feb 19
1473 Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, was born in Torun, Poland.
1878 Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph.
1882 Egerton Ryerson, Methodist minister, journalist and educator, died in Toronto.
1897 Adelaide Hoodless (1857-1910) organized at Stoney Creek the world's first Women's Institute.
1960 Figure skaters Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul won the 1960 Olympic pairs event at Squaw Valley, California.
1970 Canada claims jurisdiction over waters of Northwest Passage, and between islands of Arctic archipelago.
1996 Royal Canadian Mint puts new $2 coin design into circulation.

Feb 20
1887 Vincent Massey, later to be the first Canadian governor general, was born in Toronto.
1930 Cairine Wilson of Rockcliffe became the first woman appointed to the senate.
1945 The Government issues Canada's First Family Allowance cheques.
1959 The Diefenbaker government cancelled the Avro Arrow program.
1962 Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth as he flew aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.

Feb 21
1916 The World War I Battle of Verdun began in France.
1935 John Buchan (1875-1940) was appointed Governor-General of Canada as Baron Tweedsmuir.
1941 Sir Frederick Banting, one of the discoverers of insulin, died in am aircraft crash in Newfoudland.
1947 Edwin H. Land publicly demonstrated his Polaroid Land camera, which could produce a black-and-white photograph in 60 seconds.

War of 1812

2012-02-16T18:19:00.002-05:00

16 Febuary 1813

On this date 199 years ago the 104th Regiment started their march to Quebec City. They would eventually end up in Niagara area via Montreal and Kingston. A short description of their march is in Burton's 'Flames Across the Border, 1813-1814' pages 15-17, accessable thru Google Books.
Six Companies made the march, one leaving each day, the first was the Grenadier Co leaving on 16 Feb and the last was the Light Company leaving on the 21st of Feb. In a fortnight the entire Reg't was in Quebec City. They went on to Kingston arriving 12 Apr. " In just 52 days, close to 600 troops have marched more than 700 miles, most on snowshoes under the worst possible conditions without losing a man"
Latimer in his '1812 War with America' tells another version pages 122-124.

I read somewhere where a unit from Petawawa, Ont will re-enact this march on its 200 Anniversary next winter

Timeline Feb 16 to 18

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Feb 16
1796 A group of Queen's Rangers, working under Deputy Surveyor Augustus Jones, completed the opening of Yonge Street as far as Holland Landing.
1813 Sir John Sherbrooke orders six companies of the 104th Regiment of Foot, plus 4th New Brunswick Regiment, to proceed from Fredericton, New Brunswick to Kingston, to strengthen the defences of Upper Canada against an expected American invasion in the Spring.
1842 Richard Beasley, a pioneer Hamilton area merchant, died.
1867 John A Macdonald married Susan Agnes Bernard in London, England.
1923 The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.
1937 Wallace H. Carothers, a research chemist for Du Pont, received a patent for nylon.
1949 The House of Commons passes the Newfoundland Union Act.
1971 Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as 'fuddle-duddle.'

Feb 17
1859 A railway line from Smiths Falls to Perth opened.
1874 Thomas J. Watson, Sr., the American industrialist who built IBM, was born.
1919 Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's First Prime Minister of French ancestry, dies at age 77.

Feb 18
1546 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died.
1564 Michelangelo died in Rome.
1745 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and inventor was born.
1815 Treaty of Ghent - Proclamation of the Treaty of Peace and Amity between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, concluded at Ghent, December 24, 1814.
1972 Neil Young receives a gold record for Harvest, the only #1 album of his career; includes the #1 hit single Heart of Gold.

Timeline Feb 12 to 15

2012-02-15T18:48:00.000-05:00

There have been no timeline posts for the last few days because I was in hospital. Back on the road to recovery now!

Feb 12
1554 Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the throne of England for nine days, was beheaded after being charged with treason.
1663 Cotton Mather, American congregational minister, was born.
1733 English colonists led by James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, Ga.
1809 Charles Darwin, English Naturalist, was born in Shrewsbury, England.
1842 Councillors assembled in Brockville to hold the first meeting of the Johnstown District Council.
1949 Ottawa announces creation of a far northern radar chain later called the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line.
2010 Governor General Michaëlle Jean declared the Vancouver Winter Olympic games officially open.

Feb 13
1841 Meeting of the first Parliament of the Province of Canada in a converted hospital in Kingston.
1900 Founding of first chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE), a women's patriotic and philanthropic organization. Fredericton, New Brunswick
1910 William Shockley, the controversial Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose work led to the miniaturisation of radio, TV and computer circuits, was born.
1923 Chuck Yeager, test pilot, was born.
1945 The Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans during World War II.

Feb 14
1826 Lt. Colonel John By (1781-1836) of the Royal Engineers arrives in Hull to plan construction of the Rideau Canal from Ottawa River to Lake Ontario.
1859 Governor James Douglas proclaims the capital of the new Crown Colony of British Columbia to be at New Westminster.
1911 David Boyle, pioneer archeologist and first secretary of the Ontario Historical Society, died in Toronto.
1917 Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden announced the formation of a volunteer Canadian Defence Force for home service which would release some 50,000 men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force stationed in Canada for overseas service.
1942 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down.
2010 Alex Bilodeau makes Canadian Olympic history in Men's Moguls with first Olympic gold medal on Canadian Soil.

Feb 15
1564 Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, was born in Pisa. Died Jan. 8, 1642.
1841 Lord Sydenham, having selected Kingston as the capital of the United Canadas, issued a proclamation summoning the new parliament to meet on May 26.
1845 Bytown residents submitted a petition to the legislature requesting the incorporation of their community as a city and the establishemnet of municipal institutions.
1881 The House of Commons passed a bill incorporating the Canadian Pacific Railway and
providing for the payment of a subsidy of $25,000,000 and 25,000,000 acres of land.
1895 University of Toronto students went on strike with Mackenzie King as their leader.
1930 Carine Wilson was appointed to the Senate by Mackenzie King; Canada's first woman Senator.
1965 Canada's new maple leaf flag was unfurled in ceremonies in Ottawa.
1968 Nancy Greene wins the Gold Medal in Women's Giant Slalom at the Tenth Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Grenoble, France.
1977 The Canadian Citizenship Act, passed in 1976, comes into effect.
2002 Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were awarded a gold medal to resolve a judging controversy at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Timeline Feb 9 to 11

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Feb 9
1760 Captain John Byron 1723-1786, grandfather of poet Lord Byron, begins tearing down the fortifications of Louisbourg on orders from British PM William Pitt.
1870 Fire destroyed a courthouse erected in 1842.
1883 Ontario's First free public library opens at Guelph, Ontario.
1894 William Avery "Billy" Bishop, World War I flying ace, was born in Owen sound.
1937 Patent # 364047 was issued to the Lightning Fastener Company of St. Catharines and its president Gideon Sundback, for the zipper.
1943 World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.
1964 The Beatles made their first live American TV appearance, on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Feb 10
1763 France ceded Canada to England under the Treaty of Paris, which ended the French and Indian War.
1802 Alexander Mackenzie 1764-1820 knighted for achievements in the North West, and for being First to cross the North American continent by land.
1840 Britain's Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.
1841 Upper and Lower Canada were officially united as the Province of Canada.
1846 Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - the Mormons - began an exodus west from Illinois.

Feb 11
1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, English chemist/pioneer photographer, was born.
1847 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor with more than 1,000 patents, was born in Milan, Ohio.
1869 Patrick Whelan, convicted of the murder of Thomas D`Arcy McGee, was executed on the gallows outside the courthouse in Ottawa.
1897 Fire destroys the West Block on Parliament Hill.
1922 Frederick Grant Banting 1891-1941 announces the discovery of insulin, used to treat diabetes, at the University of Toronto.
1940 John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir), the first novelist and historian to become governor general of Canada, died in Montreal.

Timeline Feb 7 & 8

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Feb 7
1792 Lt. Gov. John Graves Simcoe issued a proclamation advertising the availability of vacant crown lands for new settlement.
1792 The first map of Cornwall was issued by surveyor William Chewett. It recorded 40 landowners.
1804 John Deere, American inventor of agricultural implements, was born.
1812 Charles Dickens, English novelist, was born in Portsmouth, England.
1964 The Beatles arrived in New York for their first American tour, touching off rock 'n' roll's "British invasion."
1984 Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk.

Feb 8
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1677 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer, was born.
1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician, was born.
1828 Jules Verne, French author, was born.
1853 A petition by Mayor J.B. Turgeon was presented to the Executive Council requesting that Bytown be converted into a city named Ottawa.
1879 Sandford Flemming read a paper before the Canadian Institute in Toronto, outlining his concept of a world-wide, uniform system of reckoning time.
1906 Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor of xerography, was born.

Blogs that commented on Rootstech

2012-02-05T10:06:00.003-05:00

These two blogs are usually interesting. Have a look!

Genealogy's Star http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/

Marian's Roots and Rambles http://rootsandrambles.blogspot.com/

Timeline Feb 5 & 6

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Feb 5
1856 Queen Victoria institutes the military Order of the Victoria Cross.
1889 The Catholic Oblate College of Ottawa becomes Ottawa University.
1946 A royal commission was appointed to investigate charges of Russian spying after Igor Gouzenko defected.

Feb 6
1802 Sir Charles Wheatstone, English physicist, was born.
1813 American troops crossed the frozen St. Lawrence River from Morristown, NY and attacked Brockville.
1865 The legislature of the Province of Canada began debate on Confederation.
1948 Barbara Ann Scott of Ottawa, age 19, won the ladies' singles ice skating gold medal at the winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
1952 Britain's King George VI died; he was succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II.
1959 The National Capital Commission came into existence and the National Capital Region was enlarged from 567,000 acres to 1,552,000 acres.
2012 Diamond Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II. Sixty years as Queen.

War of 1812

2012-02-04T07:47:00.003-05:00

Calender of Events Jan 2012 - Dec 1814

There is a web site dealing with events during the 3 year war
It is easy to read and no doubt will be updated often as it becomes more well known. I noted
Winterlude entries and our Conf. in Kingston in June
http://www.warof1812online/com/eventcentral/index.php

Timeline Feb 3 & 4

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Feb 3
1816 Edward Jessup, founder of Prescott, died.
1831 Lord Aylmer was made governor general of British North America.
1843 Sir William C Van Horne, American born Canadian railway official, was born.
1916 The original parliament buildings in Ottawa were destroyed by fire. The Library is saved.
1953 Elizabeth II officially named as Queen of Canada after her coronation.
1959 Rock 'n' roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson died in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

Feb 4
1623 Louis Hebert was granted the seigneury of Sault-au-Matelot by the Duc de Montmorency; first of 150 seigneuries founded during the French regime.
1783 England declares formal cessation of hostilities with the United States, ending the American Revolutionary War.
1789 Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
1793 Lt Governor John Graves Simcoe and entourage set out on an overland journey to Detroit.
1858 Gold is discovered along British Columbia's Fraser River, leading to gold rush.
1987 Pianist Liberace died at age 67. [I used to watch him on TV when I was a kid!]
2004 Facebook was launched as a social networking Web site limited to Harvard University students.

Rootstech Live

2012-02-03T10:42:00.002-05:00

If you want a good experience go to rootstech.org to to listen to several live streaming presentations from the Rootstech Conference, in Salt Lake City. Today and Saturday only!

For more information see:

Marian's Roots & Rambles by Marian Pierre-Louis
http://rootsandrambles.blogspot.com/
My First Day at the RootsTech Conference

Lunch and Learn 11 Feb

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We will be holding our first POTLUCK LUNCHEON on Saturday, 11 February 2012; 1:00 – 4:00 PM at the City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive, Room 115!!

Contact chair@ogsottawa.on.ca to let us know what you are bringing so we don’t end up with a dozen macaroni salads! Or just fill in a comment on our website and we will get back to you. The web page will be updated to show what’s being brought by others.

To cut down on the amount of garbage, please bring your own plate, cutlery (and a plastic bag to take the dirty dishes home afterwards).

BOOK and CD Sharing: Along with your contribution to the Potluck Luncheon, bring along your favourite genealogy book or CD. Everyone will have a chance to peruse each other’s favourite genealogy book/CD and maybe have a EUREKA! Moment. The branch library CD collection will also be available for viewing.