Our next Toronto Branch meeting will take place on Monday, February 24 starting at 7:30 pm at Lansing United Church in North York. We’re looking forward to a fascinating presentation on York County and the Underground Railroad. In the mid-1990s, archaeologists searching for artifacts along the Yonge Street corridor dug up the remains of a cabin. Had they actually unearthed a secret hideout? What would draw fugitives escaping slavery to Richmond Hill? Join us […]
Heather Ioannou
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Thanks to two determined Toronto Branch members, a Scottish family’s long search for a lost relative has come to an end… and a First World War gunner has been honoured with a military headstone at an east-end Toronto cemetery, nearly 100 years after his death. In January 2016, a query arrived on the desk of Sue Henderson, who manages the Genealogy Room of the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries, from a Reverend Harold Steven, […]