A wooden cross first marked the spot where Parkdale’s Roy Victor Jones lost his life in April 1917—one of about 3,600 Canadians who fell at Vimy Ridge. When the wooden crosses at Vimy were replaced with stone markers, Roy’s parents had his cross brought home. John and Helen Jones are now buried in Etobicoke’s Park Lawn Cemetery and a fragment of their son’s cross stands beside their shared grave stone. Roy Jones is also remembered […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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Toronto Branch is entirely staffed by volunteers. We rely on volunteers to organize, promote and provide technical support for Branch meetings and workshops, maintain the Branch website and social media communications, respond to queries, contribute to and produce our newsletter Toronto Tree, develop Branch publications, coordinate and work on our special projects, and much more… Volunteering does require some commitment of time and effort, but it’s a gift that gives back. In addition to the satisfaction […]
Our last Toronto Branch meeting of 2015 will take place on Monday 23 November starting at 7:30 pm at the Burgundy Room, North York Memorial Hall, 5110 Yonge Street in Toronto (convenient access from the North York subway station). In keeping with Branch tradition, we’ll be marking the close of the year with a celebration of our own Great Moments in Genealogy. Eleven Branch members will take the podium in turn to share one […]
Family historians may want to look at school records for various reasons—to research an ancestor who was a teacher, to find out where an ancestor went to school and for how long, or to get a taste of what an ancestor was learning and what his or her school days were really like. The good news is that there are many different collections to explore—yearbooks, admission registers, teacher and student lists, school archives and histories, […]