Hi, The government of Ontario Web page is www.gov.on.ca. I am a record specialist for the Ontario Realty Corporaition and I did a look up for you. Here is what I found: Kennedy House Youth Center 333-335 MAIN ST N UXBRIDGE, Ontario (North of Ajax I have no other information in our database and have no idea if it is still around. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/services/visiting.htm -----Original Message----- From: pip2309@yahoo.ca [mailto:pip2309@yahoo.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:47 PM To: SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCTCDN] Fw: Janet Wardrope Here's a list of long-term care facilities in Ontario. If you do a search within the page for "Ajax", you'll find a couple in the area along with email addresses. I don't know if they'll give you any information, but perhaps if you quote the newspaper article.... Other nearby towns where the band may have performed are Pickering and Whitby, but Ajax seems the most likely. http://www.oltca.com/en/source/custom/cFacilityProcessAll.cfm Sally Leslie wrote: > A while ago, I checked a few newspapers from around that time, but did not > find anything. Then I forgot!! Just now, though, I might have found a > break and started to use my brain. There is nothing in the article you have > to say that SHE went to Expo - the band did! So I tried another tactic. I > am not too bad with a search engine and I found a student who went there at > that time and played in a rock band! So I e-mailed him on your behalf (long > shot) to ask whether he or friends might know about her. Here is a site on > the school. http://www.district13.on.ca/school_histories.htm > > Now, my brain is working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!........Most likely, though, at > 84, she would not be working! Duh. She might be in a retirement home near > the school, though, vs. working!!!!! That band goes and plays at various > Kinsmen events, so they probably played at the home. So I would be looking > up retirement homes that were around in Durham near the Ajax High School in > 1986. Since, she was a cook, these would likely be publicly funded ones, > not expensive private homes. She obviously appreciated the event! Good > for her. The government of Ontario would have records on retirement homes > too. I forget where you live, but they would have records and would share > them with a relative! Toronto phone books are available in Toronto > libraries. If you are not in Toronto near a library, you might join the > rootsweb list that covers the Durham area and request a library look-up. > Scots-in-Canada has some Toronto people, but the Durham area would have many > more. Or contact the local genealogical association for Ajax. > > Have you looked her up in the Ajax phone book for, say 1958, when you can > be fairly sure she was working??? > > When I looked up "Kennedy House", I learned about how today, the place is > kind of a rough place to work and has some union issues BUT, it is a > government organization and she would have belonged to the union. Privacy > concerns may preclude getting further information, as she was alive until > recently (in genealogical terms), so you would have to tread lightly in > asking for information, but as time goes on, those records will probably > become available to you. They might confirm dates of employment or union > membership. And Kennedy House may have staff photos or party information. > http://www.opseu.org/news/Press2003/july102003.htm > > Good luck > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robyn Paterson" <robynpaterson@clear.net.nz> > To: <SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 4:16 AM > Subject: Re: [SCTCDN] Fw: Janet Wardrope > > > >>Hi Leslie, >>Just wondering if you have had any chance with this?? >>I have since established that she worked as a cook for a boys high school >>but it may have been for a place called The Kennedy House in Ajax which > > was > >>a juvenile boys home I believe. >>Regards Robyn >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Leslie" <lwgrauer@shaw.ca> >>To: <SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:49 PM >>Subject: Re: [SCTCDN] Fw: Janet Wardrope >> >> >> >>>Robyn: >>> >>>I live in Vancouver, B.C., so I will see what I can find, but way after >> >>the >> >>>March 31 - year end. Work intrudes on the genealogy projects I love, > > but > >>>this information has to be here somewhere, as it is relatively recent. >>> >>>Leslie >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Robyn Paterson" <robynpaterson@clear.net.nz> >>>To: <scots-in-canada-l@rootsweb.com> >>>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 3:49 PM >>>Subject: [SCTCDN] Fw: Janet Wardrope >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi I am hoping someone can help me. >>>>Janet Wardrope was born in Stirling Scotland abt 1902 and moved to >> >>Canada. >> >>>She never married and died in Canada i believe some time after an > > article > >>in >> >>>a paper there. >>> >>>>I have a photo copy of the articel which is a picture showing her > > thats > >>>from saturday 8 February 1986 press run titled and the beat goes on... >>> >>>>Janet Wardrope 84 wails away on the skins, accompanied, left to right > > by > >>>Ajax High School Band members Andrea Donovan, Adrian Pleasants and Scott >>>Coleman. The Band heading for expo 86 in Vancouver this summer, and >> >>recently >> >>>staged a concert, sponsered by Ajax Kinsmen, here at home for area >> >>seniors. >> >>>>I am trying to find out details of the home this refers to and what >>> >>>happened to Janet Wardrope and if she appears on any census for canada. >>> >>>>Any assistance any one can give me would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> >>>>==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== >>>>UNSUBSCRIBE - send email to - SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L-request@rootsweb.com > > (D > >>if >> >>>Digest Mode) and type unsubscribe in subject line and message box. >>> >>>>============================== >>>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >> >>records, >> >>>go to: >>> >>>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== >>>UNSUBSCRIBE - send email to - SCOTS-IN-CANADA-L-request@rootsweb.com (D > > if > >>Digest Mode) and type unsubscribe in subject line and message box. >> >>>============================== >>>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > records, > >>go to: >> >>>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >>> >> >> >>--- >>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >>Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >>Version: 6.0.521 / Virus Database: 319 - Release Date: 23-Sep-03 >> >> >>==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== >>Genealogists don't die, they just lose their census. >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > > go to: > >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> > > > > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== > Find your ancestors, before they find you! > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ==== SCOTS-IN-CANADA Mailing List ==== Great, great, grandpa, Where are you? ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237