Jackie recently asked what the designation C.E. meant. Briefly, it means Canada East. In a nutshell, it means Quebec. To go back into history a bit, you may remember that in 1763 the Treaty of Paris forced France to cede control of its colonies in North America to the British. In 1774 the British government attached Ontario to Quebec. Then the British lost the American Revolution and the Loyalists poured over the border at the end of the war and were given land grants in the Niagara region, along the north shore of Lake Ontario, and the areas south and west of Montreal. This put the English-speaking and French-speaking cultures together in one political unit, with predictable results [which are still with us today]. The Constitutional Act of 1701 split Quebec into Lower Canada [present-day Quebec] and Upper Canada [Ontario], with the Ottawa River as the boundary line. A few more political upheavals followed, and 1841 the two halves were joined and became known as Canada West and Canada East. This didn't work well either, and in 1867 the Dominion of Canada was formed, with the two provinces of Ontario and Quebec joining with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to form a confederation. But I have seen records after 1867 in which people identified themselves as being from CW or CE, so the designation hung on for awhile in popular usage. Whoops--I got carried away. That's probably more than anyone wanted to know about the subject. Maggie