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Warwick Lambton Members OGS Region 1 Annual Meeting Home_Children
Lambton Branch Reaches the 25 Year Mark!
Special to e-NewsLeaf byNoreen Croxford, Chair, Lambton
Branch
and best wishes were presented to the branch from our Member of Parliament, two members of Provincial Parliament, the Mayor of the Municipality,
the Presidentand Vice President of OGS, our Region I Director, and others.
Our
guest speakers were superb. Barbara Luckham enlightened
everyone with the Home Children information that she has
gathered during the work she has done for the project in
the past two years. She had an impressive display and
information table, which was very well-attended.George Pitfield was, as always, entertaining and informative during his talk on "Skeletons in the Closet". His suggestions
for dealing with the skeletons that we may find gave food for thought to everyone. The audience was captivated by his talk,
and soon heard that George himself, after much research, was indeed the skeleton in his own closet. It was an amazing story/adventure that, at the age of 60, changed his life. The audience obviously delighted in the story, as they gave George a standing ovation upon his conclusion.
The evening wrapped up with Nancy Brown, the first Chairperson of the Lambton Branch, cutting the cake, and
everyone enjoying refreshments and a visit.
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Ontario Genealogical
Society
Hosted by Lambton OGS
Tips, Techniques and
Talking
Refreshing Your Genealogical Research &
Recording
October 16th, 2010
9:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
John Knox Christian School
4738 Confederation Road,
Wyoming, Ontario
Helpful Techniques for Using
Ancestry.ca
Lesley Anderson
Ancestry.ca
Partnership Development and Content Specialist
Adding
the Vegetables and Potatoes to the Meat in Your
Genealogy
Alan Campbell
Do You Know Who You’re
Researching?- The Native Connection
George Pitfield
Lambton County Branch Native Resource Person
People
and Places
Brad Gray
Story Teller
Cost Per
Person - Including Lunch - $25.00 CDN.
Registration:
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Public Welcome
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O.G.S. Region 1 Meeting – October 16th, 2010
Name(s)
_________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
No. of Persons___ @ $25 + _____
Address:
_______________________________________
Phone#:___________
E-mail Address:
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Send cheque or money
order, by Oct. 1st, payable to Lambton Branch OGS:
Lambton Branch O.G.S., P.O. Box 2857 Sarnia, Ontario N7T
7W1
Book for sale
arwick township History Committee
But
Warwick’s history started long before its land was cleared
of trees and drained to make it suitable for the agriculture
that dominates the landscape today. The first chapter,
Scratching the Surface
of Warwick Township, explains how billions of years ago
Warwick was once actually located south of the equator
(which accounts for its salt deposits), then how it moved
north and developed through the various ice ages to what we
know today.
The chapters talk about the peoples who lived in
Warwick Township before the Europeans came. Then come the
stories of the difficult times of the first settlers who
struggled, by times having to hitch themselves to a plow
when their oxen died and who had to eat cow-cabbage when
their food supply ran out. There are anecdotes about dances,
strawberry socials, the experiences of Warwick residents in
various military endeavours, and many other events that took
place in Warwick.
Hundreds
of people have contributed memories, documents and photos to
this project.
The Township of
Warwick: A Story Through Time is a unique history book – a record of the events that have shaped the
community, told by its residents, past and present, in an
illustrated format. The Warwick Township History Committee
has been actively working on this project since early 2005.
To order this book
For more
information please contact Glenn at 519-828-3843 or Mary or
Paul at 519-786-5511.
Warwick Township History Committee
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150th Anniversary of North
Middlesex
The Municipality of North
Middlesex was incorporated January 1, 2001 by the
amalgamation of five former municipalities in the County of
Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
The former municipalities and the years
they were founded (incorporated) are McGillivray
(1842-1850), and the four municipalities originally part of
Williams Township (1833-1842): Ailsa Craig (1858-1874); East
Williams (1860-1860); West Williams (1860-1860); and
Parkhill (1860-1872). So their sesquicentennial (150th)
anniversary is being celebrated this year!
From the Canada Day Celebration on July
1st to the Ailsa Craig Historical Society Labour Day Weekend
Events in September to the Ailsa Craig Santa Claus Parade in
December - there will be something for everyone.
Not to mention the 150th
anniversary weekend, July 30th to August 2nd, 2010!
For details, go to the 150
Years North Middlesex website
and read about the history of the place, see photos and a
map of 1878, and the complete listing of events to be held
for the rest of the year.
To All Lambton Members
We have been mounting the our newsletter, Lambton Lifeline, on the website for members only. Please consider accessing it this way instead of by postal mail.
The advantages of downloading the newsletter from the website are:
1) You receive it much more quickly.
2) You can download it at your leisure.
3) You can save it to your hard drive or a CD instead of finding storage for the paper copy.
[Save our trees!]
4) There is a savings for the Branch in printing and postage.
5) The amount of content is not restricted by the cost of sending it.
The newsletter in PDF format requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it. This program can be downloaded from this URL Adobe for free. or
please contact the newsletter editor at
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Year of the Home Children
Do you have family who was a home child in lambton Co. Ontario, Canada
