Hi, everyone, As you may know, Ancestry-Rootsweb has announced that all Rootsweb lists will be closed as of 1 March 2020. The Archives will be saved and available for viewing only. I have set up a new list - CANADA-WOMEN-HISTORY - at groups.io for anyone interested in the genealogy and history of women anywhere in Canada at any time. Information on events, activities, museum and archival collections, etc. if closely related to women's history in Canada is welcome. This list replaces both the Rootsweb Can-Hist-Women and the Can-BC-Hist Women lists, now discontinued. [ https://groups.io/g/CANADA-WOMEN-HISTORY | https://groups.io/g/CANADA-WOMEN-HISTORY ] You will receive an invitation to join the list later today. I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity. Many Rootsweb lists have moved to groups.io already. Diane M. Diane Rogers Rootsweb Can-BC-Hist-Women and Can-Hist-Women administrator

Hi, everyone, The Rootsweb lists like this one are working again, but under a new system. Rootsweb has saved your subscription lists, but no old passwords. So some list members, although subscribed to this list, may not be registered with RootsWeb. Please register with RootsWeb. It takes only a few moments and likely will fix any posting issues. Instructions begin at http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/setupmail A few things are not yet fixed; please be patient. Diane M. Diane Rogers, Can-Hist-Women Rootsweb list can-Hist-women-owner@rootsweb.com

Canadian Committee on Women’s History - the Hilda Neatby Prize recognises each year the best articles in French and English on women's history. http://www.cha-shc.ca/english/what-we-do/cha-prizes/cha-prizes.html#sthash.pF7XwbgO.dpbs WINNER OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE ARTICLE Sophie Doucet, « Sur le chemin du paradis : les joies d’aimer, de croire et de s’accomplir de Marie-Louise Globensky (1849-1919) » Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, Vol 70, no 3 (Hiver 2017) WINNER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTICLE Meaghan Longstaffe, “Indigenous Women as Newspaper Representations: Violence and Action in 1960s Vancouver”. The Canadian Historical Review, 98, 2 (June 2017) WINNER OF THE BOOK PRIZE Gail G. Campbell, I Wish to Keep a Record’: Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick Women Diarists and Their World. University of Toronto Press, 2017. Posted by M. Diane Rogers Rootsweb Can-Hist-Women Admin can-hist-women-owner@rootsweb.com

Hello, I am looking for assistance, on the following surnames in Trois Rivieres Canada. Presse' Girard Deschamps Vanasse dit Precourt. I descend from Pierre Girard Presse' married Marguerite Deschamps dit Laliberte, April 21, 1760 at Cathedrale des Trois - Rivieres, P Quebec. Pierre was the adopted son of Joseph Francois Girard and Marie Anne Vanasse dit Precourt. Hyacinthe-Oliver Presse' drew up a contract for Joseph & Marie Girard to raise Pierre Girard Presse'. Pierre was born between 1735-1740 and died July 1, 1809. Marguerite Deschamps dit Laliberte was born July 20, 1742 and died March 4, 1791. I have the following children listed for Pierre & Marguerite: Cecile, Pierre, Marie-Marguerite, Jean Baptiste, Marie-Therese, Michael-Ange, Joseph, Marie-Cecile, Francois, Louis, Charles-Antoine, Joseph Modeste, and Marie-Louise. I am actually trying to trace more information on Pierre Girard Presse' I am hoping to possible locate information on his biological parents, and also any other information on Joseph & Marie Girard (the people who raised Pierre). I'm uncertain whether they legally adopted Pierre, if they were actually blood relatives to Pierre, or what? Anyone that could help solve this mystery it would be greatly appreciated. My line from Pierre Girard Presse' moves on into Missouri, and Illinois, USA. Thank you very much. Rhonda (Roni) Pressey Miller

Women's History Network of British Columbia 2006 Conference, September 29-30th, 2006 Victoria, B.C. "DESIGNING WOMEN: Historical Perspectives on Women and the Visual Arts in B.C." Opening reception, Friday night, at Emily Carr House, 207 Government St., Victoria, B.C. with a film screening, discussion & dessert. 'Emily Carr' will be there. Viewing of the Mohini Singh film, "The Indo-Canadian Community Celebrates 100 Years in Kelowna," This includes the Ajit Kaur story. Saturday conference sessions at St. Ann's Academy, 835 Humboldt Street between Blanshard and Quadra Streets), Victoria. Conference Presenters include: Jacqueline Gresko: on Sister Mary Theodore, historian of the Sisters of Saint Ann in Victoria. Tusa Shay: on Martha Douglas Harris & the Vancouver Island Hand Weaving Industry Jolene Cumming: on photographer Mattie Gunterman Connie Brim: on watercolour artist Julia Bullock-Webster Karen Avery: on watercolour artist Sveva Caetani The Women's History Network of British Columbia is a broadly based not-for-profit society, incorporated in 1996, that exists to celebrate the contributions women have made to the history of the province. For more information, see the website: www.members.shaw.ca/whnbc or e-mail whnbc@shaw.ca Contact: WHN/BC, Unit 402-9603 Manchester Drive, Burnaby, B.C. Canada V3N 4Y7 Diane Rogers 604 294 5369

Many excellent women writers on the speakers list, including Elizabeth Shown Mills, author of Cane River, past president of the American Society of Genealogy, & past editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Forwarded by Diane Rogers Original Message ----- From: "George G. Morgan" <aha@ahaseminars.com> To: <CGC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 2:59 PM Subject: [ISFHWE-CGC] Historical Novel Society's North American Conference (4/15-17/05) in SLC Greetings! The Historical Novel Society is holding its North American Conference in Salt Lake City on the weekend April 15-17. If you are interested in a very professional conference at which you can learn about writing historical materials, including your own family history, this is an event you will want to consider. This is the first time the conference has been held in the U.S. There will be agents there, too. You can learn more at the Web sites: The program is at http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/USA/schedule.htm Bios of the speakers are at (http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/USA/authors.htm George George G. Morgan President Aha! Seminars, Inc. 15611 Jericho Drive Odessa, FL 33556-3016 813.920.0619 President of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE) Director, Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG) Member, Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) Director, Florida Genealogical Society, Tampa, FL forwarded by Diane Rogers, from ISFHWE-CGC e-mailing list

I was reading the British Columbian, 14 December 1915, page 4 yesterday and came across the following article, which might interest others. Port Hammond News A meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Pye on Tuesday, Dec. 7, for the purpose of organizing a band of girls called the Maple Ridge Girls Patriotic Band. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Pye; secretary, Miss Edith Trembath; treasurer, Miss Birdie Anderson. Two committees were chosen - a social committee of three girls, Misses Marie Lapp, Anneta Pye, Myrtle Hampton, and a lookout committee of four girls, Misses Laura Mowatt, Rose Coughlan, Vera Anderson, and Mona Irving. The latter, it is hoped, will bring in many new members. About fifteen girls were present at the last meeting. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Pye on Tuesday Dec.14.

I found this ad in the British Columbian, 14 December 1915, page 4: Lady (experienced) starting kindergarten class in Queen's Park district would be glad to hear from any parents interested, Mrs. Tuckett, Box 36, Edmonds.

forwarded by Diane Rogers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:28 AM Subject: [CAN-BC] Post 1901 Census -- NEW petitions available. Greetings All. For some time consideration has been given to having a NEW Petition for release of Historic Census records. Our previous petition was worded in general terms. It had an effect. It did not, however achieve our ultimate goal -- that being the continued public access, without conditions or restriction, of ALL Historic Census records of Canada 92 years after collection, in accordance with provisions of the Access to Information and Privacy Acts and Regulations attached thereto. Our NEW petitions are worded in very specific terms -- giving explicit direction regarding what we seek, and the reasons for our request. There are petitions available for the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada, as well as a petition of support for those living outside of Canada. The NEW petitions in English are downloadable NOW from the Post 1901 Census Project website at the URL following my signature. French versions of the petitions will be available as soon as they can be translated by a member of the Canada Census Committee. We ask that concerned individuals, Family History and Genealogical Societies, and Historians -- anyone wanting to regain public access to Canada's Historic Census records, download and circulate these petitions. Attend the meetings of your local organizations to ensure that they are aware of the Census issue and the NEW petitions. Ask them to advise their membership through their newsletters. Ask them, if possible, to include copies of the petitions when mailing their newsletters to their membership. The current thought is that signatures will be collected and held -- probably until after the upcoming expected federal election. This would likely mean that the first signatures would be presented to Parliament after the summer. This would give us several months to collect signatures. There will be no deadline for collecting signatures on the NEW petitions. We will continue until we have achieved our goal. We would like to receive completed petitions as soon as they are available. Our original petitions sent more than 62,000 signatures to Ottawa. Let us make a concerted effort to beat that number with our NEW petitions. When sending petitions to us please include a note indicating where and by whom signatures were collected -- i.e. name of organization etc. With your help we WILL regain the public access to Canada's Historic Census records that are currently being withheld from us! Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm

----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 9:47 AM Subject: [CAN-BC] Post 1901 Census - updates to website Greetings All. To aid everyone in contacting MPs to express concerns regarding public access to Historic Census records updates have been made to the MP Scoreboard on the Post 1901 Census Project website at the URL following my signature. Addresses of Constituency Office addresses for MPs have been added to the individual MP correspondence logs. One MP has as many as nine Consituency Addresses while two did not show any listings for a Constituency Office. Those two obviously have little interest in meeting with their constituents. It is important that we continue to contact our Parliamentary Representatives to ensure they know what we seek is the same, unrestricted access to Census records after 1906 that we have for 240 years up to that time. We must keep this issue fresh in their minds. We cannot let them think that we have given up. PLEASE check the position shown for your MP on the Scoreboards before contacting them so that you are aware of what that position is. It does not gain us anything if we rave at our MP for not supporting access when they have already stated support and their postition is shown on the Scoreboard. As usual, if you receive a response from your MP that differs from the position shown on the Scoreboard, please forward to me a copy of that response so that I can update their correspondence log. I am currently double checking Ministerial email addresses and hope to have them updated shortly. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm Permission to forward without notice is granted. Forwarded by Diane Rogers

Call for Papers CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF NURSING/ L'ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE POUR L'HISTOIRE DU NURSING SIXTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Friday June 11 - Sunday June 13, 2004 York University Toronto, Ontario The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing invites abstracts for papers on any topic in the history of nursing. Papers must represent original work not already published or in press. We are seeking papers from community scholars, students, full-time researchers and academics. Papers should be 20 minutes in length. The programme committee welcomes proposals for symposiums. These sessions should include three 20 minute papers, a 20 minute comment from the chair or moderator, plus another 20 minutes for questions and discussion from the audience. Guidelines for the submission of abstracts Abstracts should be 250 words in length, can be in either French or English, and may be submitted by e-mail or in hard copy. If submitted by e-mail, please use either WordPerfect of Microsoft Word. The abstract should include a complete title, the author's name, address, and institutional affiliation if she/he has one. Please include contact information: telephone number, email address, fax, and full postal address. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is on or before 15 January 2004. Email to: carol.helmstadter@rogers.com Mail to: CAHN 2004 Conference c/o Carol Helmstadter 34 Chestnut Park Toronto, ON M4W 1W6 Canada Registration and preliminary program information is available at www.allemang.on.ca or www.ualberta.ca/~jhibberd/CAHN_ACHN. (forwarded by Diane Rogers)

I'm forwarding this important message from Gordon A. Watts re historic Canadian census records & access. Gordon's latest column about census access is at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazce/gazce99.htm Diane Rogers ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gordon A. Watts" <gordon_watts@telus.net> > To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 1:10 PM > Subject: [CAN-BC] Post 1901 Census - New Cabinet Members > > > > Greetings All. > > > > Our new Prime Minister Paul Martin has announced this morning the makeup > > of his new Cabinet. Those of particular interest to us are the > > appointments of Lucienne Robillard as Minister for Industry, and Helene > > Chalifour Scherrer for Canadian Heritage. > > > > Lucienne Robillard (Quebec) is shown on our Scoreboard as 'sitting on > > the fence' because the only response to our questions of support for > > access has been an acknowledgement of receipt from her staff. She has > > never personally responded to our questions. > > > > Helene Chalifour Scherrer (Quebec) is shown with a blue question mark -- > > indicating that she has never responded to our questions of support for > > access. > > > > Paul Martin (Quebec) is also shown as 'sitting on the fence'. His only > > responses to our questions has been referring the questions to then > > Industry Minister Brian Tobin and an auto-response that did not in any > > way respond to the questions asked. > > > > It is time once again to sharpen our pencils and limber up our fingers > > on the keyboards to write to these new Ministers in particular, and all > > Members of Parliament, to remind them that we seek the same unrestricted > > access to Historic Census records that we have had for 240 years of > > records up to 1906. > > > > We must encourage the new Heritage Minister to continue, and expand, the > > provision of online access to Historic Census records, and other records > > of vital interest to genealogists and historians. > > > > We must advise the new Industry Minister, and all Members of Parliament, > > that the conditions and restrictions of Bill S-13 (should it be > > resurrected) are not what the people of Canada have been seeking. They > > must be reminded that those conditions and restrictions have not been > > supported by any reports or studies, and in fact they have been > > previously rejected by virtually everyone who has expressed an opinion > > regarding public access to Census records. > > > > We must remind now Prime Minister Paul Martin of his statements that the > > roll of public servants is to administer government policy while the > > roll of Parliament and government is to direct that policy. He should > > be reminded that he suggested civil servants should 'butt out' of > > attempts to direct policy rather than administer it. He should be > > requested to follow through on his reported position regarding this and > > direct Chief Statistician Ivan P. Fellegi to obey the existing laws of > > Canada and transfer Historic Census records to the care and control of > > the National Archivist in accordance with those laws. > > > > We have had a short rest in our efforts to regain public access to > > Historic Census records. It is time now, with a new Prime Minister and > > Cabinet, to renew those efforts. > > > > Happy Hunting. > > > > Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net > > Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee > > Port Coquitlam, BC > > > > http://globalgenealogy.com/Census > > en français http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm

Hi Listers, I am seeking written evidence that my great great grandmother, Martha Jeannette Macintosh, came over with, or brought, the first nurses from Scotland to Montreal. I believe Jeannette was born in Edinburgh. Her first child was born in 1831, so her nursing career must have occurred prior to 1831. Jeannette married a soldier with the British Royal Staff Corps. The Staff Corps was in Quebec building the military canals that skirted the Ottawa River. The Staff Corps wintered in Montreal. I have borrowed several books about Canadian medical history through interlibrary loans. (I live in South Florida.) It is as if nurses never existed in Canada. Only the physicians are talked about. If you have a resource for the nursing history in Canada, I'd appreciate a lookup. Regards, Bonnie

I am currently transcribing the Military dependents on board the SS Melita in 1919. The ship was travelling from Liverpool, England to the Port of Quebec between 17 and 24th September 1919. Many of these women were war brides, including my grandmother, Grace Clark. I have a special interest in war brides from this war, especially the British women who married Canadian soldiers. If you have a mother, grandmother or any other relative who was a war bride from this war, I would love to hear your stories. Annette Fulford British Columbia, Canada Email: arfulford@shaw.ca Emergency Email: avidgenie@hotmail.com