When I came from Vermont and was first married my husband tok his mother and I to Benson's animal park one Sunday. Many yearslater I took our sons with a friend and it was such a nice little place to go with children. Harriet Hello, We've been discussing old Amusement Parks in New England on my "Memories" List,  and someone brought up the discussion of "Benson's Wild Animal Farm / Park" in southern NH  (US).     I looked it up, and it was started by a John BENSON. I found a page mentioning that he had previously been a manager at the "Lexington Park" in MA.   This might be him in census pages, showing he came from England. BENSON, JOHN T   (1910 U.S. Census) MASSACHUSETTS , MIDDLESEX, LEXINGTON Age: 35, Male, Race: WHITE, Born: ENGL Series: T624 Roll: 598 Page: 158 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson's_Wild_Animal_Farm However, when trying to find him in census records,  I saw that many with the BENSON name came down from Canada.     Many others came from England or Sweden, etc.    It's a surname we don't see on the New England Lists, and I wondered whether anyone did research it. Betty         (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator FYI:     Come to think of it,  were there as many "old amusement parks" in Canada? (I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before that my sister and I had a visit to "Parc Safari"  around 1978.   She and her husband and their young kids and me and my young kids drove up in the middle of a "heat wave."    We had a family-size tent and stopped at a campground.    Didn't know that "thunderstorms" -happened-  quite suddenly without nice -  and, while we were swimming, "down" with the tent !   On top of the open suitcases ! No electricity;  no dryer;  slept in large SUV in wet swimsuits that night.) :o( (Just another of my family's  "things to remember.") :o) When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List,  I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !!    Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. To search the archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION The information page is: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message