I sift through a small cardboard box that perhaps once held greeting cards, its lid long since gone. For decades it lay under Ernest’s bed in his tiny house. Inside are fragments of a life—tintypes, bank books, notebooks, and postcards from 1919. Piece by piece, they reveal the story of a young prairie farmer building a life after the First World War.

Some stories begin with a single photograph. I first opened the album on an ordinary afternoon. It came in a box of family mementoes loaned by my cousin Sonya. The book is heavy—brown leather, its spine now gone, embossed with pink and red ribboned roses.

Honouring my 2nd great-grandmother, Céline (Papillon) Fiset—her resilience, struggles, and legacy live on this International Women's Day.

Married in 1942, parted for 3.5 years by war—Pete & Kaye Inkster kept love alive through letters, gifts, & devotion across the miles.

A decades-old census find led me to Maggie Grassie’s story—her journey from 1856 Edinburgh to Canada, and a surprise heirloom connection.

My great-grandfather, Ernest Fiset, died when I was sixteen years old, too young to ask him many questions. But over the past few years,...

Embark on a journey to 17th century Quebec when 20-year-old Abraham Fiset, an engagé (indentured servant) arrives in New France to start a n

François-Abraham Fiset was nineteen years old when he sailed from his Normandy homeland to the fledgling colony of New France in 1653.

Gilbert Inkster left Shetland to sail in the merchant service, then jumped ship on Vancouver Island in 1888. Read more about his journey

While visiting my parents this week we watched several news documentaries about the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the landing of the...

I was looking through my grannie's recipes (Kathleen Hattie Inkster, 1914-1984) and found this blank invoice form from the 1940s for Dr....

For the past few years I've participated in a family history writing group through the Surrey Family Search Centre. Once a month we get...

Today we travelled back to a time when the men had to fish to the landlord during the summer months. Three miles north of North Roe,...

Remembrance Day always holds a special place in my heart as I ponder the sacrifices that so many men and women made as they said goodbye...