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17 December 20217 December 2021 by Sarah Jansen

When my Grandma Madeleine was four, her mother, Florence, took her and her two older sisters, five and seven, out to the Montréal shopping district to buy new shoes. It was 1934, almost five years into the Great Depression. Canada was hit hard, second only to the USA.

Categories Grandmother Chronicles Tags Family History, Great Depression, Quebec, Social Welfare Leave a comment

Baby Names

30 November 2021 by Sarah Jansen

How do you feel about these off-the-wall names that some of my early Québecker ancestors gave their children? Girls SymphoroseTheotisteMarcellineJosephteApollineScholastiqueCedeliceHarmoniaZelire Boys SilfroyPolydoreEnguerrand

Categories Grandmother Chronicles Tags Colonialism, Family History, New France, Quebec, Settlers Leave a comment

Cedarwood

14 November 2021 by Sarah Jansen

Before factory-made textiles, making fabrics took up such enormous amounts of female time that little girls had to start preparing for wifehood as soon as their fine motor control came in. Any spare minute women and girls had, their hands were busy …

Categories Grandmother Chronicles Tags Canada, Cedar, cedarwood, Colonialism, Family History, France, Haudenoshaunee, Louis XIV, New France, Quebec, Settlers, Textiles, Women's Work Leave a comment
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