Cannections

What a chance is Hazel, what wonders to behold

I’m much looking forward to holding Hazel, my great-granddaughter born on Sunday, also the birthday of her cousin Olivia from Yellowknife, who was here last week and walked with me beside the canal as we usually do and I told the story of Jim…

While my great-grandson was being born I was sitting on a bench by the canal.

If You Hear Not My Word I Will Be The First To Wage War Against You

2/4 Second tale of Pattersons of Canada origins

They came at night, an army of 1,500 Iroquois warriors, overwhelming the Québec village of Lachine and terrorizing Montréal a couple of…

Ab ovo

1/4 First tale of Pattersons of Canada origins

A Century Standing By

4/4 Fourth tale of Pattersons of Canada origins

In 1832 the population of York (Toronto) was 5,000, Kingston was 4,200 and Bytown (Ottawa), which didn’t exist six years earlier, was 3,200. It was the beginning of urban society in Ontario but not yet an urban…

Métis Muddle: 600,000 newcomers circling round and round