Olive Tree Genealogy has added Early Ontario Education Records

Olive Tree Genealogy has added to its Early Ontario Education Records a list of Teachers Receiving Pensions in Upper Canada 1857, Teachers Receiving Pensions in Upper Canada 1858 There are images with names of 298 Teachers with details of infirmity, years and locations teaching, age and residence who were being superannuated, or given a pension, in Upper Canada in these years. This adds to my earlier list of 120 teachers receiving their pensions in 1855.


Read more: http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/#ixzz3OpaDLagC

The Ottawa Citizen Births Marriages and Deaths 1879-1885

Thanks to the Ottawa Branch Ontario Genealogical Society

11 September 2014

The Ottawa Citizen, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1879-1885.

The Ottawa Citizen, Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1879-1885.
Ottawa Branch Publication No. 14-02. ISBN: 0-7779-5014-2. $25.00

This new Ottawa Branch publication includes all birth, marriage and death notices published in The Ottawa Citizen from 1879 through 1885. It bridges the gap between previously published birth, marriage and death collections for Ottawa newspapers. As the capital of the new Dominion of Canada grew quite rapidly in the years following Confederation, this publication contains a wealth of vital data, particularly for most prominent politicians, both local and national. As usual at the time, the death notices provide interesting reading on their own. The publication is available online through the Ontario Genealogical Society e-store at http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogsnewcart/ or by mail order through the Ottawa Branch catalog at http://ogsottawa.on.ca/publication-price-list/.

New at FamilySearch.org

Ontario, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1989

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1627831

Description

Index and images to the records of several Toronto cemeteries, including: York General Burying Ground (also called Potter’s Field), 1826-1855; Necropolis Cemetery, 1849-1989; Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 1876-1988; Prospect Cemetery, 1890-1985. Indexed records are available through 1935. Indexing was a cooperative project with the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.

This collection covers cemetery records from 1826 to 1935.
This collection is now complete as of October 22, 2013.
These records include an index and images from several Toronto cemeteries, including: York General Burying Ground (also called Potter’s Field), 1826-1855; Necropolis Cemetery, 1850-1912 (the index will continue to 1935); Mount Pleasant Cemetery, 1876-1933; Prospect Cemetery, 1890-1935.
The records included were created to provide a list of those buried in the Toronto Trust Cemeteries: Potter’s Field, Toronto Necropolis, Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and Prospect Cemetery.
The registers are hand-written on a preprinted form. The names are arranged alphabetically by surname.
The first non-sectarian cemetery in the city of Toronto was created following the city council’s 1825 decision to purchase a plot of land for this purpose. This was ratified by Parliament in 1826 and the first public cemetery was named the York General Burying Grounds but became better known as “Potter’s Field.” This site would be sold off in 1855 and the remains moved to the newly purchased Toronto Necropolis.
As the city increased in population the trustees of the Toronto General Burying Ground would purchase the Toronto Necropolis from its owners in 1850. With continued increase in population in 1876 the Mount Pleasant Cemetery was added. Finally, in 1890 the Prospect Cemetery was added to serve the city’s growing west end.
This collection is a reliable record of individuals buried in the cemeteries, barring human error or deliberate falsification.

Ontario Genealogy

Did you know that the Ontario GenWeb offers questions and answers on genealogy research in Ontario, Upper Canada and Canada West – free of charge!

 

http://ontariogenwebqa.blogspot.ca/

Deaths in Orilla Ontario

Just in case you missed the 25 September  posting on http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.ca/ 

The Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia Ontario (Canada) was once called the Hospital for the Feeble-Minded. 4246 deaths were recorded at the institution from 1876 to 1971, when the facility stopped burying residents on-site. About 2,000 people were laid to rest on the hospital grounds, 1,440 in unmarked or numbered graves. [FN1]

A recent class action settlement between the Province of Ontario and previous residents of the Centre resulted in an agreement to provide a Registry of Deaths. It is not clear if this registry will be made public.

When a resident died and was buried on the Institute grounds, a small numbered marker was all that was erected. There were no names recorded. Eventually many of those numbered markers were removed and used to create a sidewalk. In the 1980s a chaplain had the markers taken up and laid in a large square so that they formed a memorial rather than being used for a walkway.

But those who died have been, for the most part, forgotten. Their actual burial locations are not known. The handwritten register contains the names of the deceased along with their burial number but there are many errors. Some numbers have been assigned to two different people.

The Toronto Star obtained a copy of the death register under the Freedom of Information Act but it is unlikely they will publish the names. I do not know the legal ramifications of obtaining a copy but I am going to attempt to find out if I can obtain a copy and if is then legal for me to publish the names on Olive Tree Genealogy

FN1: Toronto Star Sept.24, 2013. Identities of unnamed dead at Huronia Regional Centre emerge. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/09/24/identities_of_unnamed_dead_at_huronia_regional_centre_emerge.html



Read more: http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/#ixzz2g08qo7zr

TONI (The Ontario Name Index)

 

The TONI (The Ontario Name Index) is like our SRI it is an indexing program and not a digitization program. To date there are 2401406 records available. The basic search is free but you will need a OGS membership to access information. With our SGS membership we can receive a discounted OGS membership.

 

http://www.ogs.on.ca/integrated/toni_database1.php

 

 

Ontario and Upper Canada

 

Another great site has been sent in

 

Ontario and Upper Canada Genealogy and History

 

http://ontariogenealogy.com/

 

Thanks Sandra M for passing this along