O’Hare-Schubert Family // Fort Armstrong, B.C.

Contributed by Sherrilyn JahrigEARLY YEARS Catherine O’Hare was the youngest of nine children in a family of flax-weavers living near Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland. As a young girl she survived the potato famine, then an attempted kidnapping, and carried on as a...
Ernest Warren, Grand Master of the Grand Black Chapter of Canada

Ernest Warren, Grand Master of the Grand Black Chapter of Canada

Ernest Warren (left), then Grand Master of the Grand Black Chapter of Canada of the Royal Black Knights of Ireland, with Brian (right), who had just been elected as Provincial Grand Master of the Grand Black Chapter of Nova Scotia, 1999. The Black Chapter is to the...

McConnell Family // Nova Scotia & Toronto, Ontario

Contributed by Brian McConnellThree of the McConnell family arrived in Canada from Monaghan town, County Monaghan in the 1920s. Two sisters, Margaret and Rachel, and a brother William Arnold settled in Toronto. In Monaghan town their parents William and Sara McConnell...

Eugene McCann // Toronto, Ontario

Contributed by Eugene McCannDuring the summer of 1991 I encountered a lost looking tourist in Amsterdam and helped him on his way. Some weeks later in Groningen, I met the same man, again on his bicycle and struggling with a map. We took the time to introduce...