Sunday Sundries

Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.

This Fall’s Canadian Fashion Statement

Royal Society of Canada Fellow Inductee
“Rod Phillips (Professor of History at Carleton University)  is an internationally renowned historian whose definitive works—13 books translated into 10 languages— have redefined his scholarly fields by centring family, divorce, and alcohol within broader contexts of social, cultural and political change. Demonstrating exceptional leadership in his field, he has
served as Editor-in-Chief of the flagship Journal of Family History for 30 years and served as President of the Society for French Historical Studies.”

Using Online Records to Find Our Emigrating & Immigrating Ancestors with Melissa J Ellis: Monday 14 September 7 PM.
This  Bruce County Genealogical Society workshop will examine the push and pull factors that had our ancestors leaving their countries of origins for a new life in a new country. We will learn of early types of Emigration schemes that helped our ancestors establish themselves in Canada, and the background history to the types of documentation that was created once they arrived. We will have a look at Immigrating groups of people and what history can tell us about why they left their home countries. We will review research suggestions to help us explore the large databases and find ancestors.

Scottish Indexes Conference XXXIII – Saturday 19 September 2026