March 6 marks the 190th anniversary of the incorporation of Toronto as the first city in the province! Back in March 1834, the population of “Muddy York” was just 9,254, and you would reach the city limits at Bathurst Street to the west, Parliament Street to the east, a little north of what is now Queen Street to the north and the lakefront to the south. Outside these official boundaries were the “liberties”, land […]
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When it comes to putting flesh on the bones of your genealogical research, a great place to start is by seeking out any accounts of your ancestor’s life that may already have been written. Toronto family historians are in luck because we have several sources of compiled biographies and biographical indexes to draw on. These include the Biographical Card Index at Toronto Reference Library as well as an extensive collection of obituaries compiled by Library […]
Newspapers can be a goldmine for family history researchers. Nuggets of information can be gleaned from birth, marriage and death notices, from lists of ship arrivals, from reports on crime, accidents and court proceedings, and even from local ads. What you may not know is that Toronto researchers are particularly fortunate when it comes to newspapers. Not only are two of our major papers–the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail–digitized, but they can be accessed free of charge […]