Miscellaneous items I found interesting this week.
What happened the week Ottawa was born
In Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen first section Randy Boswell rescues characters and details that have been lost to time, adding a new chapter to the capital’s origin story.
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Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1918
On 24 September 2026 Ancestry updated the civil registration collection to now contain 7,794,437 records.
Thanks to the following individuals for their comments and tips: Anonymous, Gail, Teresa, Unknown.
For the updated “Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1918” collection on Ancestry, it seems like Ancestry hasn’t updated the title of the collection and the Archives of Ontario hasn’t updated their information page. The new additions appear to be birth registrations submitted in 1919. The 1918 birth registrations for Ontario were added back in February 2026.