Family Compact(redirected from Family Compact (Canadian history))Also found in: Encyclopedia. Family Compactn 1. (Historical Terms) the Family Compact the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century 2. (often not capitals) any influential clique...
WHY ARE CANADIANS RESEARCHING THEIR FAMILY HISTORY? RESULTS FROM THE CANADIAN GENEALOGY SURVEY Canadian Issues / Thèmes CanadiensNEILSON, LEIGHANN C.
Family Compact (in Canadian history)Family Compact (in Canadian history) from The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. Read Family Compact (in Canadian history) from The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. now at Questia.The Columbia Encyclopediath ed...
Victoria Day, Canadian holiday on which the British sovereign’s birthday is celebrated. In 1845, during the reign of Queen Victoria, May 24, the queen’s birthday, was declared a holiday in Canada. After Victoria’s death in 1901, an act of the Canadian
EARLY HISTORY The first explorers to visit North America, as opposed to the indigenous peoples, were said to be the Vikings. Around 1000 A.D., Norwegian Leif Ericson's ship first landed in what is now Labrador and went on to what is now Massachusetts, stopping on the coast of modern-day...
For 10 years, this database provided Canadians at home and across the globe with access to a collection of records that document an important part of their family histories and connections to a shared national history. Library and Archives Canada is committed to maintaining and expanding that leve...
Your family history may include a relative who sailed on the Empress of Asia as a passenger, perhaps as a new immigrant, business person, politician, diplomat, or missionary. Or perhaps your relative was part of the crew, or as a soldier coming home from the war. If so, we’d love to...
Anderson Abbott was a doctor and surgeon who was the first Canadian-born person of colour to graduate from medical school. He served in the Union army as a civilian surgeon during the American Civil War. Abbott was born to an affluent family. His parents
A records check of that B-17’s serial number shows it at Morrison Field near Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 19, 1945. Three months later this combat-tested bomber was unceremoniously sold for scrap at the huge aircraft boneyard in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. I like to think of our anonymous...
Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums . McGill-Queen's University Press. xiv, 250. $44.95 This book is a welcome contribution to public history and material culture scholarship in Canada. Andrea Terry uses three house museums of central Canada as case studies to explore the ...