By Jane E MacNamara There may have been a bite in the air on October 29, 1861, when Samuel Wedge applied for relief from the House of Industry.[1] Certainly the days were getting shorter and the approach of winter was hard to ignore. Winter made the Lake Ontario dangerous and […]
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By Jane E MacNamara I would like to have met Rose Foley, I think. A bit cantankerous, independent, determined. This post will demonstrate how the newly indexed minute books of the Toronto House of Industry gave me a window into eight years of Rose’s life and led me to other […]
by Michael Nettleton, House of Industry Project Coordinator Toronto Branch volunteers will soon complete the first phase of transcribing the manuscript records of Toronto’s House of Industry. In the first phase, Branch volunteers have been transcribing six volumes of minute books and case recommendations of the House. Transcriptions from five […]
by Irena Lewycka Irena Lewycka joined the House of Industry project as a volunteer transcriber in 2018, and recently switched to the role of proof reader. While reviewing the pages of Volume 1, 1855-1859, one entry in January of 1859 caught her attention. 1859 page 249 Case 65 (January 7, […]
by Michael Nettleton Our dedicated team of Toronto Branch volunteers continues to transcribe and proof the minute books and case recommendations of Toronto’s House of Industry. The records being transcribed date from 1855 to 1882 and total more than 2500 pages. Each year has about 1000 case entries. We celebrated […]
Jane E. MacNamara It is about a year, now, since our FamilySearch indexing team completed the Toronto Trust Cemeteries project, making some 368,000 names from the burial registers of four major cemeteries available for free to researchers around the world. As we quickly realized it would, it has become an […]
Fifty-two people are listed on page 183 of the register of Prospect Cemetery in Toronto. Fifty-one of them were buried in Prospect from May 2 to 11, 1935. Their ages ranged from 1-month-old Margaret Mech to 91-year-old Frances Hubble. There were four stillborn babies, but very few infants and children—perhaps […]
by Jane E. MacNamara I’ll admit to getting sidetracked from time to time with an intriguing entry in a burial register—hard to resist digging a little further into some of the stories. But sometimes the information is almost too easy to find. A burial register page for Mount Pleasant Cemetery […]