Some websites you might visit
Making Best use of Quebec Church Registers – Originally published in QFHS Connections September 1994, Vol. 17, #1, page 2 as Church Registers in the Province of Quebec
Beverly Blagrave Prud’homme’s site —– is revised and renewed and features information about the Rawdon area and history from early days and recollections from the early twentieth century.
Journal of George Copping for the years 1836, 1837, 1838, 1840, 1843, 1844, 1845 is available once more and was added in April 2023.
Visit https://www.histoirederawdon.ca/ produced by the Société d’histoire de Rawdon the site may be read in French or in English – click on your choice. It includes “The Irish Presence in Rawdon Yesterday and Today” that I helped to create in 2025.
Christ Church, Rawdon has a lovely site with a drop down section on the history of the parish and its clergy and a beautiful meditation on its stained glass windows.
Editorial Stock Photos includes photographs, many from the Rawdon area by Richard Prud’homme – some are on this site at https://uptorawdon.com/rawdon-yesterday-today/ if you have never been to Rawdon, this will help you understand what keeps people going Up To Rawdon.
BAnQ is the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (National Library and Archives of Quebec), it manages the province’s legal deposit, archives, and national library. It offers millions of items (books, digital, media) and free memberships for Quebec residents, centered largely at the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal, with locations in Quebec City, Gatineau, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Rimouski, Gaspé, and Rouyn-Noranda.
Quebec Anglo Heritage News (QAHN) publishes an interesting quarterly magazine in which my material has sometimes appeared.
QFHS is the home of the Quebec Family History Society. Membership includes their magazine Connections which has published my articles.
Names that appeared in newspapers in Sherbrooke, Quebec in the 19th Century
Channell’s “History of Compton County and sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St. Francis, and Sherbrooke County, supplemented with the records of four hundred families, two hundred illustrations of buildings and leading citizens in the county” 1853-1896
An amazing number of Quebec and Eastern Townships Cemeteries are recorded on this excellently maintained and regularly updated site. They are sorted by county.
Vital Statistics for British Columbia
Vital Statistics for Manitoba
Ancestor Links contains a wealth of material including data on Dawson and Huston and an interesting section on the Eastern Townships.
Vital Statistics for Saskatchewan
Profile not in a family chapter.
Mary Ann Purcell was baptized at the parish church of St-Alphonse Rodriguez on June 28, 1873 and was the daughter of Christopher Purcell and Margaret Cameron of that Parish. Her godfather was Timothy Kelly of St-Ambroise de Kildare and his wife and Mary’s aunt, Mary Cameron. Read about the school named for Mary Purcell in Washington State.