Which province are you researching in?

I've been researching my family history for more than 30 years. My Canadian research has been limited to Ontario, primarily the Hamilton-Wentworth area. By no means am I an expert but I'm pretty familiar with what type of records are available to anyone researchig in this area.

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Permalink Reply by William Bruce Hillman on July 8, 2009 at 7:58pm

I am based in London, Ontario. My family can be found mainly in Elgin and Middlesex County's. I have gone further afield as one of my great grandmothers was from a Pennsylvania Mennonite family. As well, my direct ancestor's brother immigrated to Michigan and I have done some research there. Sooner or later I will need to go on a research trip to England, Cornwall, and Scotland to see what I can dig up there.

Permalink Reply by Earline Hines Bradt on July 8, 2009 at 8:10pm

I am researching mainly early Ontario, Quebec and the maritimes. I am currently researching the UE Loyalists in Upper Canada and early pioneers in Essex County.

Permalink Reply by Jeanie McCully on July 8, 2009 at 10:06pm

I'm researching the family of Jonathan Wade who came to the Long Point settlement in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1798; also that of his wife Elizabeth Sovereign/Sovereen, daughter of Jacob the tavern-keeper.

Permalink Reply by Andy Tinkham on July 8, 2009 at 11:27pm

My Canadian connections are predominantly in Nova Scotia. Mostly Ouderkirks (and a bunch of alternative spellings) and Nichols, moving there from New York at the time of the Revolutionary War, and coming back to the states with my great grandmother. I'm pretty new to all this, and still figuring out what records I've gotten from my father and grandmothers.

Permalink Reply by Wendy Macdonald on October 18, 2010 at 11:18pm

Hi - my friend and boss is an Ouderkirk, with I am sure, ties to Nova Scotia, if I recall. If you like, send me your email and I will have her get in contact with you.
Take care,
Wendy

Permalink Reply by Elaine O'Neill on July 9, 2009 at 9:48pm

I'm researching my husband's parternal lines, primarily in Russell, Prescott, Carleton counties in Ontario, with some overlap into Quebec.

Permalink Reply by Wendy Macdonald on October 18, 2010 at 11:28pm

My husband's family is from Prescott County mostly, what names are your searching?

Permalink Reply by Scott Oldford on July 10, 2009 at 6:28am

Sometime in the early 1900's my great-grandfather, Richard Oldford, and his wife Dora Jane (Rowsell) moved to Pictou County, Nova Scotia. Prior to this they called Newfoundland home; he from Elliston (formerly Bird Island Cove) and she from Point Leamington.

I'm also researching my Rideout roots as well which originated in Twillingate, NL.

If you have any information on any of these lines (Oldford, Rowsell, or Rideout) I'd greatly appreciate you contacting me.

I live in Halifax, NS and if I can be of any help to you please don't hesitate to contact me.

Permalink Reply by Pat Hawkins on July 21, 2009 at 5:12pm

Hi Scott,

I don't have anything on your Oldford's but I do have a Dorothy Oldford from Musgravetown who married Archibald Gardner. Dorothy is the daughter of Ackman/Ackerman C. Oldford. She came to Cambridge in 1923 and married Archie about 1925. Archie was from British Harbour. Any connection to your Oldford's?

Permalink Reply by Pam Waugh on July 10, 2009 at 7:30am

I have many ancestors in the Eastern Townships of Quebec -- Loyalist settlers to Caldwell's and Christies Manors (Salls, Tryon, Covey, Vaughan, Tallman and Scott), and later additions were Patterson, Derick, Young, Wait and Longeway -- mostly settling originally in Missisquoi Co and spreading out.

My Dad's line is Nova Scotia and New Brunswick...Wood and Williams as Planters to Cornwallis, NS area; Penobscot Loyalists Daley and Hammond to St Andrew's, Charlotte Co; and Loyalists Belding, Howard and Kerr ending up in Saint John, NB; Hepburn, Darrah, and Stanley also Saint John Co, NB

Permalink Reply by Jeannette June Creswick on October 13, 2009 at 2:19pm

Pam, I am also a Scott from Quebec. My George B. Johnson/Johnston family in Elgin Co. moved to Michigan and was married to Miranda Lucas whose family included the Scott line and Lucases from New England.

Permalink Reply by Carolyn F. (Bassow) Landry on October 27, 2009 at 9:41am

I am researching the Tallman name in Quebec Providence.....Daniel Tallman was born 1819, Quebec, died 1900, LaPraire, Quebec, Canada. Is the Tallman name derived from an Indian tribe?