Download or read book The Descendants of John Grant and Mary Sabean written by George Allen Grant M.A. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nova Scotia, the focus of study about Scottish settlers, including the Grants, has been on the eastern counties of the province, and on Cape Breton Island. In the United States, when Grants are mentioned, a significant concern seems to be to find a genealogical or DNA link to Ulysses Grant. No one has seriously examined and written about the Grant families of southwestern Nova Scotia. That leaves a space for me to act in, and to develop a narrative history of a family founded in the soil, strengthened by the forest, and challenged by the sea environments that comprise the fundamental essence of Nova Scotia. And so, my passion has been to tell the story of my family and their relatives in southwestern Nova Scotia and to follow the paths of many of them to New England (especially to Massachusetts). This study will fulfill an implicit task left to me by my Aunt Ruth Dexter. That is the essence of why I have spent so much of my retirement on this task. But there is more to come as I follow suggestive clues left by my ancestors, or seek to overcome “brick walls” that stump every genealogist from time to time. When I began this project, my aim was simply: “To collate and present a family history of the line descending from John Grant and Mary Sabean to myself.” If I had stayed within that framework this book would have been much shorter and less interesting. As it turns out, there are many fascinating aspects to our story. Not only will you read about the hard-working and courageous children of John and Mary, but you will follow them and their offspring as they find love and marriage, sometimes with close or distant cousins. • You will ride or sail with them as they migrate within Nova Scotia and outward to New England. • You will wonder at their expressions of faith and sense their hidden, internal conflict as they make religious choices based on factors we can only imagine (spirituality, simplicity, availability, or energetic missionaries), reflected in obituaries, burial sites, or their answers to census questions. • You will share their sorrow at the deaths of loved ones through accident, disease, suicide, loss at sea or in the service of their country in war, particularly in World War I. • You will learn of their varied occupations, trades and professions, from farming, fishing and forestry to shoemaking, carpentry and sailing, nursing and teaching. • You will join them as they strive to become master mariners, volunteer in their churches, train young women with the YWCA in China, or succor the sick and wounded with the Red Cross in Siberia – follow them south to Boston and the Caribbean, east to Europe and across the Pacific to Asia. Only then you will come to understand why, at its core, my passion has been to be the voice of my direct ancestors and extended family within a defined framework of time and place, to record their activities where sources allow, in essence, to be the story they could not write.
Download or read book Summary Report of the Geological Survey Department of Mines for the Calendar Year written by Geological Survey of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary Report of the Department of Mines Geological Survey for the Calendar Year written by Geological Survey of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhodora written by Benjamin Lincoln Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary Report of the Geological Survey Department written by Geological Survey of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. for 1901 includes atlas of maps.
Download or read book Adam and Susan Fickas written by Viva Eleanor Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jost Fickes was born in Germany and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1737. In 1739 he married Anna Regina Baier, and in 1741 they lived in Whitehall Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. They later settled in Huntington Township, York Co., Pennsylvania, where he died after 1784. Includes Crisp, McDonald, Smith, Travis and related families.
Download or read book Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Woodcock Status Report 1965 written by William H. Goudy and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singing-ground surveys of the American woodcock indicate that breeding populations have increased gradually over the past 7 years while production, as indicated by wing-collection surveys, has remained relatively stable. The woodcock harvest, meanwhile, has probably more than doubled during the past decade. This suggests that while woodcock are probably becoming more important to North American sportsmen, hunting mortality is still relatively unimportant.
Download or read book Report of Activities written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muiwlanej kikamaqki Honouring Our Ancestors written by Janet E. Chute and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon oral and documentary evidence, this volume explores the lives of noteworthy Mi’kmaw individuals whose thoughts, actions, and aspirations impacted the history of the Northeast but whose activities were too often relegated to the shadows of history. The book highlights Mi’kmaw leaders who played major roles in guiding the history of the region between 1680 and 1980. It sheds light on their community and emigration policies, organizational and negotiating skills, diplomatic endeavours, and stewardship of land and resources. Contributors to the volume range from seasoned scholars with years of research in the field to Mi’kmaw students whose interest in their history will prove inspirational. Offering important new insights, the book re-centres Indigenous nationhood to alter the way we understand the field itself. The book also provides a lengthy index so that information may be retrieved and used in future research. Muiwlanej kikamaqki – Honouring Our Ancestors will engage the interest of Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike, engender pride in Mi’kmaw leadership legacies, and encourage Mi’kmaw youth and others to probe more deeply into the history of the Northeast.
Download or read book Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2157 written by and published by Natural Resources Canada. This book was released on with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Away written by Gary Burrill and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These accounts are not `interviews' in the sense of structured sets of questions and answers. Rather, time and time again, as I introduced myself and my subject by explaining something about the theme of leaving home in Maritime history, some kind of chord was struck in the self-understanding of those I spoke with, and we then spent an hour, an afternoon, or a day recording a conversation about the place of leaving home in their lives and in their thinking." from the Preface In Away, Gary Burrill presents the voices of Maritimers in exile as they talk about their decisions to leave home, their experiences moving to and establishing themselves in new areas, and the way their exile from the Maritime provinces of Canada has shaped their views of themselves, their adopted communities, and their native homes. Each of the book's three sections deals largely with the experiences of a generation. From the turn of the century to the 1920s and 1930s, Maritimers looked primarily to Boston for work when they made their decision to leave home; during the economic expansion that followed the Second World War, southern Ontario was the destination of choice; when western Canada experienced an "oil boom" in the 1970s and early 1980s, a younger generation of Maritimers was drawn to Alberta. Taken together, the reflections and autobiographical reminiscences of these Maritimers provide a broad geographical and generational picture of the experience at the centre of post-Confederation life in the Maritimes -- exile, out-migration, going away.
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Download or read book Journal and Proceedings of the Legislative Council Session written by Nova Scotia. General Assembly. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Nova Scotia. Dept. of Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index Geographicus Being a List Alphabetically Arranged of the Principal Places on the Globe with the Countries and Subdivisions of the Countries in which They are Situated and Their Latitudes and Longitudes Compiled Specially with Reference to Keith Johnston s Royal Atlas written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
