Sunday, January 6, 2008

New Exhibit at the Museum of Civilization

The Canadian Museum of Civilization has just opened an exhibition where you will meet people who have made Canada what it is today.

It is a permanent exhibit comprised of 27 people and is called, "Face to Face: The Canadian Personalities Hall".

There are five different aspects that the people demonstrate, and they are - those who built; governed; fought; founded; and inspired their fellow Canadians.

Some of the people on the exhibit now are Samuel de Champlain, Joey Smallwood, and Timothy Eaton.

The museum plans to rotate new faces into the lineup starting in 2009, and you are asked to submit the names of Canadians you believe that should be in "Face to Face".

The website is <www.civilization.ca/facetoface>.

Recent Publications in "Internet Genealogy"

In the November issue of Internet Genealogy are two articles on mine in this issue -

Page 36, "The Perfect Genealogy Partnership". This article covers the partnership between the Library and Archives Canada and Ancestry.ca, which was announced at the Ontario Genealogical Society in June of 2007.

Page 54, "Nova Scotia Vital Statistics Database Now Online". This article covers the release of Nova Scotia birth, marriage and death databases on the archives website at <www.novascotiagenealogy.com>.

The Barclay Diary

While I have been working on "Notes on" for nearly twenty years now, I started to put the finishing touches on it in order to have it printed in time for the celebrations happening in Shelburne, Nova Scotia the summer of 2008.

The celebrations will highlight the founding of the town as Canada's first Loyalist city in 1783 by 16 captains who brought 400 settlers from New York. Andrew Barclay, my g-g-g-g-grandfather, was one of the captains, and although he suffered the same difficulties as others did, he was successful in raising a family, and many of his relatives still live there today.

In November, I read an account of a diary which had been published in the Argyle Archives of Tusket, Nova Scotia that I did not know existed. For the past twenty years, I was hoping that I would come across such a document, and I finally have done it, with great thanks to the people at the archives.

The diary was written by Annie Louisa (Barclay) Haley, the second-eldest daughter of Andrew Barclay (grandson of the elder Andrew Barclay) when she lived in Tusket in the late 1800s.

I was extremely lucky to find her great-grandchild, Brian Haley, in California as well as his sister, who also lives there, and they filled me in on some other things, but unfortunately, Annie Louisa did not continue to record her life in a diary in California.

So I have been busy fitting in her memories in the book and getting it ready to send to Shelburne, as they get ready to celebrate their 225th anniversary this summer.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Welcome to the Genealogy Canada blog!



Genealogy Canada now has a blog, effective Jan 1, 2008.

It still keeps the style and name of www.genealogycanada.com, and will present the news of Canadian genealogy, history, and heritage in a quicker, more up-to-date fashion.

GenealogyCanada.com will still remain the same - but the news posted here will be more current.

We can still be contacted at our regular email address of <genealogycanada@aol.com>.

Thank you for visiting us, and we hope you will continue to enjoy what we have to offer.

May we wish you and yours a Happy new Year, and a successful 2008!

Elizabeth