--------------284D27AAB4F7C581E3B401CF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just knew I would get a lot of emails and should have been more detailed in my info! It is ONLY Megantic COunty information and I will do a plug for the book It does not have much on ships, just a paragraph or two. If you family was in Megantic county 1780-1900 they are probably mentioned, it gives alot of back information and alot of names I really cannot do lookups in it because you have to leaf through all the pages. SOme families the information is extensive, some like mine have one line once - isn't that the way!! From: Gwen Barry <av006@chebucto.ns.ca> >From : Gwen Rawlings Barry, Lwr Sackville, Nova Scotia Dear Friends of Megantic County and St Sylvestre, "The book", alas! is finally finished and ready for sale. The particulars and ordering information follow : Title : A HISTORY OF MEGANTIC COUNTY: Downhomers of Quebec's Eastern Townships Author : Gwen Rawlings Barry Publisher : Evans Books Published: June 1999, 404 pps, ISBN 0-9685518-0-7 Price : $29.95 Cdn, plus $7 Cdn shipping & handling This book on the history of Megantic County, Quebec and its townships deals with English Canadian settlement, community development and out-migration. The neighbouring parishes of St Sylvestre and Ste Patrice of Lotbiniere County are also included. The book covers such matters as : Geography, Climate, Toponymy, The Abenakis, Americans and Soldiers, the Land Speculators, the British Emigration Agent, the British Emigrants and their Origins, The Home Children, The Orange Lodge, Religion and Ethnic Issues, Epidemics, Education, Municpal Reform (The Tax Man Cometh), Life on the Farm, The Lives of Women, Large Families, Long Lives, Commerce, The Millers, The Tavern Keepers, The Timber Barons, The Copper Mines, The Asbestos Mines, the Railways and Outmigration to the Huron Tract, the US Plain States, New England and the Canadian Prairies, and other subjects. The book includes 30 maps, including township lot plans, as well as 36 population distribution tables, 14 appendices, many other lists and extensive references. Orders should be sent to : Gwen Barry 5 Belvedere Dr, Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4C 2M1 $29.95 per book order, plus $7 shipping = $36.95 Cdn total Please make cheques payable to "Gwen Barry". USA orders please use current dollar conversion rates between US and Canadian funds and pay by cheque only. US Postal Money Orders are not negotiable in Canada. -- Julia Dalgleish Sauter, Saskatoon, Canada Searching Dalgleish, Rutherford & Heriot in Scotland Searching Dalgleish& Aird in Montreal & Megantic County Searching Thackeray & McQuarrie & Kearney in Ontario........... To some it's just a hobby, to Me it's much more, I learn the joys and heartaches of those that went before. They loved, they lost, they laughed, they wept - and now, for me, They live again in spirit, around the F