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Doris’s dance class

On March 23, 2018 By kristendenhartog

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  • A 1950s winter: new Canadians
  • Part 3: A WW1 Barnardo’s Boy
  • Part Two: A WW1 Barnardo’s Boy
  • Zoom presentation: Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society
  • Part 1: A WW1 Barnardo’s Boy
  • WW1 in the Junction Triangle
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: Cars, chauffeurs & transit
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: Fashion, Masks & Flu Veils
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: “It has swept over the earth like a cyclone…”
  • In search of toilet paper, or whither the wipes?
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: dainty tablets & unseen heroes
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: Smiles are contagious
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: “I love to get your letters so much…”
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: “trying times test us”
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: “everyone was being very careful”
  • Flu Pandemic 1918: country air and bicycle cures
  • Jennie and George and Grace: Down a Rabbit Hole
  • “Top of your Christmas wish list”
  • Part 3: Mysteries and mystranscriptions, a genealogical case study
  • Perth Avenue, Toronto, in WW1
  • Part 2: Home children Walter and Maria, a genealogical case study
  • Part 1: Myrtle, Blanche and Walter, a genealogical case study
  • South Africa, Australia, and The Cowkeeper’s Wish
  • Part 6: Ellen Shelley conclusion
  • Book Review: The Cowkeeper’s Wish
Benjamin and Margaret Jones
George, Jack and Bill Cartwright, McCormick's picnic, 1916
Chapter 15 - Bebbie, early 1920s
Chapter 15 - Bebbie and Doris, 1920s
1900s Harry and Mary Ann sepia
Chapter 4 - Reverse of Mary Anne and Jenny post card
The elusive Ellen, discovered in the Stone Asylum casebook at the London Metropolitan Archives (City of London). This image appears with their permission.
The elusive Ellen, discovered in the Stone Asylum casebook at the London Metropolitan Archives (City of London). This image appears with their permission.
Doris, left, with Emily Morely, circa 1920
Chapter 17 - Doris, second from right, with some of Bill's siblings
Doris passport, 1918
Doris's dance class
Chapter 11 - My Little Pal - reverse of Doris 1916
Chapter 7 - Reverse of Martha Bedford portrait
Chapter 16 - Florence, left, and Mary Cartwright, 1926
Chapter 15 - Doris, 1921
Chapter 7 - Martha Bedford, late 1880s

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