Posted on: General Alberta<br>Canada Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Canada/Alberta/General/11449 Surname: Gardipee ------------------------- My greatgrandmother was Rosalee Gardipee. She was born on May 5, 1899 at Medicine Hat, Alberta. On January 14, 1904 she married my greatgrandfather Robert Alexander Howse, who was born July 12, 1879 at Poplar Point, Manitoba, Canada. I am looking for when her parents (Benjamin Gardipee and Catherine Rock) were born and married. If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate. Patrick K. Best e-mail: bestp44@hotmail.com Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Posted on: General Alberta<br>Canada Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Canada/Alberta/General/11448 Surname: Shafford ------------------------- My father was Keith Arnold Shafford and the rest are uncles and aunts. It might be I could fill in a couple of blanks but not many. I knew Glen W Shafford the best and that wasn't much. Drop me a line as I would love to hear what you might know about my family as my sisters and brothers and myself lost our parents at a young age.

I'm looking into the Allen/Allin family which came from to Alberta from Ontario in the early 1900's. Thomas Henry Allen b.1850 near Bowmanville, Ont. married 1879 Alice Mary Ward and then moved west in early 1900's following her death. He came with some of his children and homesteaded originally in the Kitscoty area. He was supposed to have died in Lloydminster in 1913 and to have been buried there. Neither the Prov of Sask nor Alta have a death record of him in that area. Alta has a record of a Thomas Allin born near Bowmanville, Ont. who was killed by a falling tree near Padstow in 1913. The informant on the death certificate was Edgar Allin, a prominant surgeon in Edmonton at the time. Edgar also came from the Bowmanville area of Ontario and was probably one generation younger than Thomas. The name of the attending physician on the certificate is "none". My thinking is that Edgar acted as a friend or relative rather than a physician. One of TH's daughters married in 1918 George William Adams and they lived and she died in Ronan, which is not far from Padstow. Does anyone have any info on TH Allen or family? The name has been spelled variously as Allen/Allin. Many thaks. Al.

Posted on: General Alberta<br>Canada Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/Canada/Alberta/General/11446 Surname: Pullen, White ------------------------- Hi I am trying to trace a "lost" member of our family. Her name was Ada White born 8 Sept 1882. She went to Canada and either just before or in Canada married a Ronald Pullen. Ada came from Scarborough in Yorkshire. Her father was William White, who was a tailor and boot maker. She had 9 brothers and sisters. If you know any details of the Pullen family please contact. Thanks

I am looking for a William Mulligan (my grandfather) who married a Charlotte Ann Pike. They had one daughter together, Ellen Charlotte Mulligan b. Jan 2, 1922. I suspect they were married shortly before the birth and he left shortly after. Some sources have said that he went to BC. Any help would be appreciated. Darlene

-----Original Message----- From: Debbie <jjparty@telusplanet.net> To: Jane.Bowe-McCarthy@gov.ab.ca <Jane.Bowe-McCarthy@gov.ab.ca> Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 9:28 AM Subject: Marriage and birth Hello, I was wondering if any of the records there have surname lists or a Census of some sort. I have a Lillian STRINGER b. July 4th 1913 who was born in the Hat and the parents were Walter and Violet STRINGER. Thankyou for your reply, Also: I'm looking for details of a marriage between: Walter STRINGER and Violet STRINGER around the 1912 time give or take a couple of years. Maybe married in Medicine Hat Alberta. Both are dead now. Thankyou, Debbie

Hello, Looking for MEDLAND's in Calgary AB and STRINGER's in Medicine Hat AB Thankyou, Debbie

Hi Listers...I am new on this list and I am searching for any MCGOWAN who is a descendant of CARY MCGOWAN from Hairy Hill, Alberta...I want to communicate with them for my wife is a close relative...Any help by any lister would be greatly appreciated!!!! Jim in Darke County, Ohio, USA

Greetings One and All. As a follow up on my posting of a few days back wherein I advised I had been invited to participate in roundtable discussions conducted by the Access to Information Review Task Force, I have an announcement: I AM GOING TO OTTAWA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been advised that the government will pick up the tab for transportation and accomodation to attend these roundtable discussions. This was the only consideration that would have blocked my participation. I shall do my best to convey to them the position of genealogists and historians that public access to Historic Census records must be restored. I have also recommended to the person with whom I spoke that Lyn Winters would be a valuable addition to these discussions and I expect him to be invited to participate as well. Lyn is a member of our Census Committee, a former member of the RCMP, and a retired investigator for the Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada. He is well versed in the ATI Act and is also into genealogy. It was from a posting from Lyn that I first became aware of the withholding of Post 1901 Census records some years ago. I look forward to finally meeting Lyn in person, and to working with him during these discussions. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC Keep up to date on Post 1901 Census information at http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm

Posted on: General Alberta<br>Canada Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Canada/Alberta/General/11444 Surname: MacKay ------------------------- My G Grandfather was John MacKay b 1841 in New Glasgow N S his wife was Janet Inglis of Locharber N S. They were married on May 13 1870 in N S. They had the following family: Daniel b 1871 ; John E b 1873; Inglis b 1875; Willian Fraser b 1876 (my grandfather); Robert b 1878; George 1881; Arther b 1881 and Henry b 1887. At least one of these boys headed west to Alberta or Saskatchewan. I would like to hear from any one having information on these MacKays

Posted on: General Alberta<br>Canada Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/Canada/Alberta/General/11443 Surname: MCghee, Lewis ------------------------- I am looking for any information on the McGhee family in Edmonton. Ernest McGhee son of John and Jessie McGhee married Phyllis Hitchmough in Edmonton in 1915. What happened to this family? Phyllis's mothers name was Dorothy Lewis, what was her husbands name.

This is a long-shot, but I am trying to find anyone who is researching the Waite families. If sks has a family that came over from England between 1817 and 1891 could you please contact me. I am especially interested in a Yorkshire family from the Bradford area. Tks Ron McIntosh Calgary _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Hi Listers: Does anyone out there have access to a Morinville History? I am looking for the name of the parents of Alexandrine Dubuc. They left Longueil near Montreal abt. 1890 and were among the first settlers in the Morinville area. Alexandrine married Ernest Chartrand in Morinville 20 Oct. 1908 (Fr. Normandeau.) Your help is appreciated Donna in Bonnyville

Hello Group, As a slight change on my site prompted a problem, I have also converted my homepage url to the 'index' mode instead of using default, therefore, any link you may have to my site may have been discontinued. Please check the link and if it does not work, convert it to the url listed below. Sincerely, Barry Hovelson Camrose County GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~abcamros/

Thankyou Martha and Norma, Very much appreciated. Barry H.

Hi Listers, Thanks to Sue Wilkin,Norma Wolowyk,Kathleen Brock and Barb Bowles for their responses to my previos query about Land Grants.........we're making progress! My current question is whether the Grants give details beyond the original grantee. My ancestor moved from Quebec to Calgary in 1905 so I wonder whether he would have been a Grantee. I have the legal land description and wonder if there is another area where I could trace ownership. Earl.

Greetings All. In my last message I stated that I would be away from the computer until tomorrow (Saturday) however here I am again. I guess I am addicted. I do, however, have a reason for coming back tonight. Life has it's ironies, and it would appear that I have been subject of some of them today. After a delay of almost six months, because I made an Access to Information Request for the Report of the Expert Panel on Access to Historic Census Records, Industry Minister Brian Tobin made the Report available to the public on 15 December 2000. Along with the release of this report Mr. Tobin issued a press release in which he stated that "further broad based consultation with all Canadians is needed. This consultation will take place as part of the already announced administrative and legislative review of the Access to Information and the Privacy Acts." His reference here was in regards to a press release of 21 August 2000 which announced the establishment of "An Access to Information Review Task Force". While it is expected there may be some progress reports, the press release stated "A final report will be released in the fall of 2001, which will analysze the administrative and legislative aspects of Access to Information and provide recommendations for improvement." Anything here sound familiar? Our response was, and still is, to deplore the refusal of Mr. Tobin to accept the recommendations contained in the Report of the Expert Panel. We opposed the inclusion of the Census issue in the mandate of this Task Force. We viewed his announcement of "further study" as a delaying tactic and have our doubts as to whether or not he has actually read the Report. We feel the idea is to "study the Census issue to death", or at least to the point where they finally manage to get a report that states what they want, rather than what the public wants - i.e. access to Historic Records. We continue to urge Mr. Tobin to accept the recommendations of the Expert Panel. We continue also to urge our MPs and Senators to vote in favour of Bill S-12, introduced in the Senate by Senator Lorna Milne, and an identical Bill soon to be introduced to the House of Commons by MP Murray Calder. This afternoon I received a phone call from Keith Lafrance, a member of the BC Genealogical Society, as am I. He called to advise he had received a fax addressed to me as Editor of the Global Gazette. The facts are that I am simply a writer for the Global Gazette, not the Editor, and the number to which the fax was sent is not mine. Fortunately Keith knew who I was or I would not have received the fax intended for me. Now comes the irony. The fax had been sent by Andrée Delagrave, Chair of the Access to Information Review Task Force mentioned above. The purpose of the fax was to invite me "to participate in a roundtable discussion on the federal Access to Information framework." The message further stated that I was "being invited to discuss aspects of access to information related to the specific interests of the stakeholders represented. You are being invited to participate in the first roundtalbe for those with expertise in the information busines, libraries, archives, genealogy, history, science associations, and publishing of government data." There you have it -- I am invited to participate, in a small way, in the Task Force which I have decried as not being necessary to our purpose. I would very much like to attend this roundtable discussion, however the hooker is that it is scheduled to take place at the Rideau Club on Monday, 26 March 2001 (10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.). While the message did not say so, my assumption is that the Rideau Club is in Ottawa and I live 25 kilometers east of Vancouver. The message makes no mention of the government paying for transportation or accomodation. My pension, while normally adequate, is not sufficient to pay for day trips to Ottawa. I will be checking on Monday to see if the government will be funding the trip, but otherwise I will be unable to attend. The message does make provision for someone other than myself to attend and I have someone in mind to take my place if I am unable to attend. I will keep you informed on what happens. Life's little irony #2 to follow tomorrow. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC Keep up to date on Post 1901 Census information at http://globalgenealogy.com/Census

Earl, The film C-6089 will have a copy of the patent registration issued to the homesteader on that land. You can order the film through inter-library or archival loan from the National Archives of Canada. Something else you might be interested in doing is contacting the Research Group at the Edmonton Branch Alberta Genealogical Society. A member of that group could copy the homestead application which would have been completed at the time of applying for homestead land. These homestead applications are on microfilm at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. Norma Wolowyk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Earl Costello" <jayearl@home.com> To: <ALBERTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:04 PM Subject: [ALBERTA] Dom.Land Grants Hi Listers, Having accessed the data base for Dominion Land Grants ( @ Nat'l Archives for Canada) in connection with the hamlet of Indus,AB.......I found : - Reference : Liber: 198 Folio: 74 File reel number: C-6089. Can somone tell me what information such a microfilm might contain and how I might obtain the info. it contains. (For the moment I'm living in Toronto soon to move to Montreal.) Earl. ==== ALBERTA Mailing List ==== Questions or comments about the mail list? Email Darlene - dhomme@telusplanet.net

Hi Listers, Having accessed the data base for Dominion Land Grants ( @ Nat'l Archives for Canada) in connection with the hamlet of Indus,AB.......I found : - Reference : Liber: 198 Folio: 74 File reel number: C-6089. Can somone tell me what information such a microfilm might contain and how I might obtain the info. it contains. (For the moment I'm living in Toronto soon to move to Montreal.) Earl.

Greetings All. I am pleased to announce that this afternoon the Post 1901 Census Project Website is back up and fully operational. Many have been aware that for the past week, following transfer of the website to new servers, many of the pages have been inaccessible. At this time all functions on the website are working. All pages are accessible, and all petitions are downloable. Most of the main pages are available in either English or French languages. Debates of the House of Commons and the Senate are available in both languages, as is the "Whats it all about" page. The MP Scoreboard is fully accessible, and the MP response totals are also available in both languages. Work continues on the remaining pages to complete the bi-lingual conversion. The move to the new servers should show an improvement in the speed of accessing the pages. I will be taking steps also to convert very large pages to smaller ones to further improve access speed. Those who have the Post 1901 Census Project website bookmarked please note that with the move to the new servers the URLs are now case sensitive. Please note the URLs to the main pages of the site: http://globalgenealogy.com/Census for the English version. en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm Normal updating of correspondence logs and link pages will now resume after getting the site working again. Not today however. As of this message I am shutting down the computer, going out for a beer and some dinner, and staying away from html files until tomorrow. Have a great day, and Happy Hunting. Gordon A. WATTS gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC Keep up to date on Post 1901 Census information at http://globalgenealogy.com/Census http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm Permission to forward without notice is granted.