Summary: The original nominal return of the various nineteenth-century censuses are among the most commonly used and most useful of genealogical sources, providing the name, age, birthplace, ethnic origin, and occupation of every resident at a point in time, in this instance 2 April 1871. It is the only source that comes close to being a comprehensive listing of the population. Why 1871? There are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1986
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3713 INDSummary: The original nominal return of the various nineteenth-century censuses are among the most commonly used and most useful of genealogical sources, providing the name, age, birthplace, ethnic origin, and occupation of every resident at a point in time, in this instance 2 April 1871. It is the only source that comes close to being a comprehensive listing of the population. Why 1871? There are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ontario Genealogical Society 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3713 INDPunch, Terrence M.
Summary: Erin's Sons not only sheds light on many of the Irish immigrants who resided in Atlantic Canada between 1761 and 1853 but also provides an invaluable tool for U.S. researchers, since many New England Irish families can trace their ancestry through Atlantic Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2008
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4 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. ICall number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. II
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Call number: R GEN 929.3415 Punch VOL. IV
Larson, Denise R.
Summary: The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield Co. 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 LARBunnell, Paul J. (Paul Joseph)
Summary: The author has collected information about marriages between French Canadians and native Americans from various websites and compiled sources including the Jesuit Relations and Tanguay's Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 2004
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.371 BunnellMorin, Gail.
Contents: v. 1. 56 families -- v. 2. Jean Nicolet and a Nipissing Woman -- v. 3. Martin Prevost and Marie Olivier Sylvestre Manitouabeouich -- v. 4. Pierre Couc dit Lafleur and Marie Mitequamigoukoue an Algonquin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2012
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4 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 VOL. 1 FirstCall number: R GEN 929.3714 VOL. 2 First
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Curtis, Christopher Paul
Summary: In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC CURFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Centre canadien des recherches généalogiques. 1968
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17 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1968 Vol. I No. 1-2Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1968 Vol. I No. 3-4
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1969 Vol. II No. 1-2
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Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1971 Vol. III No. 1-2
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Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1972 Vol. IV No. 1-2
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1972 Vol. IV No. 3-4
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1975 Vol. V No. 1-2
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1975 Vol. V No. 3-4
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1978 Vol. VI No. 1-2
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1978 Vol. VI No. 3-4
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1979 Vol. VII No. 1-2
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1979 Vol. VII No. 3-4
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1980 Vol. IX No. 1-4
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1980 Vol. VIII No. 1-2
Call number: R GEN 929.371 French 1980 Vol. VIII No. 3-4
Leboeuf, J.-Arthur
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1957
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3 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.371 LeBoeuf No. 2 Book 2 (I-Z)Call number: R GEN 929.371 LeBoeuf No. 6
Call number: R GEN 929.371 LeBoeuf No. 2 Book 1 (A-H)
Angus, Charlie
Summary: "The world is desperate for cobalt. It fuels the digital economy and powers everything from cell phones to clean energy. But this 'demon metal,' this 'blood mineral,' has a horrific present and troubled history. Then there is the town in northern Canada, also called Cobalt. It created a model of resource extraction a hundred years ago -- theft of Indigenous lands, rape of the earth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anansi 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ANGPicard, Marc
Summary: "Monsieur Picard, who has previously written about the etymologies of the French migrants who settled Quebec and Acadia in the 17th and 18th centuries, now follows the spread of those surnames to various English-speaking parts of North America. Besides its derivations and Anglicizations, this resource references the first French-Canadian settlers bearing the names found in the dictionary....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.4 PicardDilts, Bryan Lee
Summary: Index for genealogists, historians, demographers, and other researchers who wish to quickly determine where specific individuals are located on the available portions of the 1848 and 1850 censuses of Canada West (approximately the same in boundaries as modern Ontario).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Index Pub. 1984
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3713 CEN 1848 1850Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
Summary: "Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pajama Press Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HODill, Khodi
Summary: "An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives readers tools to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.896 DILDavid, Saul
Summary: In December of 1943, as Nazi forces sprawled around the world and the future of civilization hung in the balance, a group of highly trained U.S. and Canadian soldiers from humble backgrounds was asked to do the impossible: capture a crucial Nazi stronghold perched atop stunningly steep cliffs. The men were a rough-and-ready group, assembled from towns nested in North America's most unforgiving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019