Lymburner Reunion 1936
A reader sent a photo of a Lymburner Family Reunion in 1936. Thanks so very much, Linda. In the detail above, you see the oldest person present. She is #104,…
Kennel Club Show
The 143rd Westminster Dog Show is on television today through Tuesday. So from Jan. 13, 2011 here is my St. Thomas Dog Blog post about that year's Elgin County Kennel…
Ford Ontario
The Ontario Progressive Conservative party yesterday chose Doug Ford as its leader. That's Doug, brother and advisor to the late Rob Ford who has to have been the weirdest mayor…
Newspaper Clippings
My mother kept a lot of newspaper clippings, and pasted them in scrapbooks. These ones date from the 1940s on. They are about family and our towns as well as…
Pittie Myths
I don’t often agree with Peter Worthington, but I did with what he wrote (March 14, 2012) about Pit Bulls and Ontario’s Breed Specific Legislation. He calls BSL a “Ku Klux…
I’ll Have Another
This was first posted on my St. Thomas Dog Blog, May 10, 2012. This Saturday, May 7th 2016, it's Derby Day again. It feels different this year - it's the…
Burwells in US & Canada
There is a Burwell family in southwestern Ontario and one in Virginia. No one is sure if they're related. I wonder if the link might be through Burwells in Connecticut.…
Mabee Photos
Mabee Family Tree McConkey Family Tree George Anger with Herb on his minibike, I think about 1970 near Goderich ON. George was son of Murel (Mabee)…
G. Frederick Anger UEL
In colonial times Georg Frederick Anger, a native of Germany, lived on the Susquehannah River in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he joined Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara.…
McConkey Family Tree
I was told by my aunts that this photo is Emma Jane McConkey's father's mother in the 1830s. That would be Andrew's wife Lorana. She would have been in her…