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A Canadian Family
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To share our family history and help others with genealogy research on Acadians & French Canadians of Quebec and New Brunswick and to promote deltiology and postcard collecting through the blog carnival "A Festival of Postcards".
Recent Posts
Buckingham Sawmill (Gatineau, Outaouais, Quebec) – Forestry Fridays: Historic Views of Lumber Mills & Logging Scenes in Eastern Canada
This is a vintage postcard of the Buckingham Sawmill and Dufferin Falls in Buckingham, Quebec. In recent times, Buckingham has been amalgamated into Gatineau. Gatineau is located in Quebec’s Outaouais region. Reverse of Postcard Some Bucki...
Caughnawaga – Natural Kodachrome Vintage Postcard
This is a relatively modern postcard with the following text on the back: Caughnawaga: The Chief And His Tribe In “Roti-tsien-ha-len” Council. This week I was working on some genealogy for someone who mentioned that one of their relative...
The Bellevue Casino On A Swizzle Stick
As I’ve mentioned before, during the 1940s and 50s my parents often frequented nightspots that were part of Montreal’s heyday as the jazz and nightclub capital of Canada. As my mom would leave me with the babysitter she always promised t...
Verdun in Black and White (4): Family Photographs from the 1940s/1950s – Wordless Wednesday
A b/w photograph from WWII (ca.1945) My Leger (m.Theriault) grandmother and uncle in front of their Cool St. flat in Verdun, Quebec. Related Posts: In Living Memory: The Twentieth Century ...
Tram in front of Montreal Street Railway Company & Bank of Montreal | Montreal In The Time Of Tramways
Historic views of Montreal’s trams in the early 20th century (8/12) I learned from Tom Grumley’s A Retrospective History of Montreal Streetcars that the M.S.R. was first established in 1861, though at that time the streetcars were horse-dr...
Early French Canadian Pioneers: The Thibaults of Quebec
Francois Thibault | Elisabeth-Agnes Lefebvre October 14th, 1670 Louis-Paul Thibault | Therese de Saint-Ours April 25th, 1735 Jean Milot dit Lebourguignon | Mathurine Thibault November 26th, 1663 Related Posts: Evelyn in Montreal: Chartrand m. Thibau...

