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by Janice Hamilton and Lucy Anglin (second cousins)

Fairmount Villa was the home of our great-great-grandparents, Montreal notary and landowner Stanley Clark Bagg (1820-1873,) or SCB, and his wife, Catharine Mitcheson Bagg (1822-1914). SCB died of typhoid at age 53, but Catharine continued to live in the house with her son and four daughters until they all marri...


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(condensed and revised from several articles that appeared on my personal family history page, Writing Up the Ancestors, around 2020)

In February 1841, my future great-great-grandfather wrote a letter to my future great-great-grandmother, explaining that his grandmother had asked him to write. It doesn’t take much reading between the lines ...


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After travelling in Europe for a week by myself, I decided to go home. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the money for a one-way ticket, so I was stuck in Europe for another three weeks. My return ticket, subsidized by the Canadian German Exchange Society, only cost $135, so I couldn’t think of paying 1800 DM ($680) for a one-way ticket. I never thought to call my parents and ask ...


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40 plus degrees in Athens, 2010. Do I look as if I belong? On the same trip, in Plomari, Lesvos, Greece, an old Romani woman tried to sell me some lace. I turned her away. Little did I know she might have been a relation. Now, I wish I had bought the lace.

The Truth is Out There. Or Is It?

A short time ago, I wrote a story here about my unknown b...


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