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    Alternate Cemetery Name: Whitefish Grassy Lake Cemetery County/District/Region: Sudbury District Historical Township: Denison Current Municipality: City of Greater Sudbury Historical Municipality: Whitefish Lot: 7 Concession: 5 Location Address: 732 Grassy Lake Road Cemetery Status: inactive Transcription Status: Not Transcribed Registration Status: Registered

    Articles: The Malin Thesis of Grassland Acculturation and the New Rural History; Class Interests in the Emergence of Fruit-Growing Cooperation in Lincoln County, Ontario, 1880-1914; Contrasting land Development Rates in Southern Ontario to 1891; Boosterism and the Settlement Process in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, 1890-1914; Agricultural Colonization in Ontario ...

    Articles: Feudal Society and Colonization: A Critique and Reinterpretation of the Historiography of New France; "Do You want Your Daughter to Marry a Farmer?": Women's Work on the Farm, 1922; Corporate Structures and Local Economies: The Case of the Williams lake District Lumber Industry; The North American Wheat Futures Market ...

    Articles: The Blacksmith in Upper Canada, 1784-1850: A Study of Technology, Culture and Power; "Labouring at the Loom": A Case Study of Rural manufacturing in Leeds County, Ontario, 1870; A Motley Crowd": Diversity in the Ontario Countryside in the Early Twentieth-Century; Nicol Hugh Baird and the Construction of the Trent-Severn ...

    Articles: An Orderly Reconstruction: Prairie Agriculture in World War Two; Farm Making Costs in Early Ontario; Tenant vs. Owner Occupied Farms in York County, Ontario, 1871; Corporate Farming on Vancouver Island: The Puget Sound's Agricultural Company, 1846-1857; Commercial Agriculture in the Region North and Northeast of Calcutta During the Nineteenth ...

    Articles: The National Policy and Prairie Economic Discrimination, 1870-1930; The Growth of Prairie Agriculture: Economic Considerations; The Development of Farm Produce marketing Agencies and Competition Between Marketing Centres in Eastern Simcoe County, 1850-1875; The Social and Economic Development of Settlers in two Quebec Townships, 1851-1870 Published between 1978 and 1996, ...

    Articles: A Reconsideration of the State of Agriculture in Lower Canada in the First half of the Nineteenth Century; Time, Context, and House Type validation: Euphrasia Township, Ontario; The Activity of an Early Canadian Land Speculator in Essex County, Ontario: Would the Real John Askin Please Stand Up?; Robert Gourlay's ...

    A collection of memories of teenage girls from cities, towns, villages and rural areas throughout Ontario who signed up to "Lend a hand" and devote their summers to agricultural labour on market garden farms and orchards in Southern Ontario during and after WW 2 (1941-1952). Contains a history of the ...

    Through nursing work from the first Canadian women in uniform in 1885 in the Northwest Rebellion, the Yukon Field Force in 1898, and the South African War of 1899-1902 women had the greatest influence on Canada's early military history. The Canadian Nursing Service was created in 1901 and nurses served ...

    The history of CCM from the founding in 1899 with Walter Massey as President until the demise in 1983. In 1911 the company was renamed the Russell Motor Car Company with Thomas A Russell as President and CCM as a subsidiary. Contains a list of Patents obtained by the company. ...

    A guide for researching Scottish family history - civil registrations, church records, land records, testaments, dispositions & settlements, people and professions. Contains a glossary, list of repositories and a list of the old parishes.

    Stories of the people who settled in the Canadian West from all over the world before the first World War; the lure of "free " land, hardships, loneliness, railroad, settlement of towns & villages, linking Ontario and British Columbia.

    The true story of Thornton & Lucie Blackburn, fugitive slaves from Kentucky who settled in Toronto in 1834 and went on to become wealthy and successful businesspeople. Signed by the author

    An overview of genetics - DNA, chromosomes & inherited traits

    Proof - "evidence sufficing or helping to establish a fact" and "evidence sufficient to establish a thing is true or to produce belief in its truth." A guide for genealogists to prove relationships (or linkages) between individuals / generations. Proving a pedigree involves knowing the methodology or processes needed as ...

    A view of Ontario's history by taking a new look at the landscape; the land system, place naming, elements of the architecture of the buildings - houses, barns, schools, churches, community buildings, industrial structures, fences, graves & monuments and power & mills, townscapes & transport systems; how the cultural landscape ...

    A practical guide to organizing, file storage, preparing for a research trip, organizing a research project and preparing for the future. Includes organizational forms for genealogists.

    The six steps to success starting with goal setting, learning the basics, strategies for research (plans), effective research and recording, documentation of findings, and presenting and preserving your research. Contains abbreviations & Latin words, symbols and examples of useful forms for research.

    Social networking is "a way of using online resources and services to create and maintain a community of individuals who share a common interest." Learn about RSS, Tags, message boards & mailing lists, blogs, Wikis, collaborative editing, photo & video sharing, social bookmarking, podcasts, virtual worlds and genealogy specific social ...

    A guide to using records in libraries, archives churches, genealogical & historical societies, and lineage societies; includes checking indexes, examining records and making abstracts.