Here is a website where an index for every surname in the census in Ontario is being developed. Many counties are already on line and more go on each day. http://allcensusrecords.com/canada/ontario/ontario1911.shtml -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Dear Pat Connors, I would like to be permitted to send out a message on your listserv, if I may. I am doing research on the Irish in Canada, especially in Ontario, in the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. I am interested in two general areas: How Irish immigrants represented themselves and their experiences in diaries, memoirs, letters, autobiographies, travel writing and even biographies. How do they remember and write about Ireland, its landscape and people, and how they remember and write about the idea of home? How do they respond to the physical, social and political reality of Canada? How are the memories of Ireland compared with the realities of Canada? I am also interested in these same subjects but this time as written by others, by non-Irish writers, in the literary forms mentioned above but also in novels, short stories, plays, essays or poems. I would be extremely grateful for any information about the existence of these two general categories of texts from you subscribers. The texts can have been published or not; unpublished diaries, memoirs or letters would be particularly interesting. If any of your subscribers would like to contact me about their knowledge of such texts, I would be very grateful. For example, Patrick Slater's 1920's novel, THE YELLOW BRIAR: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside gives us fascinating insight in the experience of the Irish in the countryside of Ontario in the second half of the nineteenth century. The use of such texts and references to them would be appropriately recognized and acknowledged. I would welcome any comments or suggestions from your members. Yours sincerely, Professor Michael Kenneally Chair in Canadian Irish Studies Concordia University, Montreal