Québec, Canada
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Ship KEILA – “tramp steamer” WWII
As my erudite colleague recounts: “Ship KEILA, what you would call a tramp steamer and ubiquitous for the time, but lovely all the same. Those ships went everywhere with everything imaginable.” KEILA was an early-20th-century steam cargo ship that carried several names and owners over its life. It was built in England in 1905 (as Continue reading
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Archive – The suggestion of Jewish heritage
My Gélinas (Bellemare) Ancestral history Hortense’s ‘maiden’ name is (her father’s family name) Bellemare Hortense’s father was Joseph Onésime Bellemare (see archive below in Quebec Act). He signed off as “Joseph Bellemare” if you look at the end but in the text he is referred to by his full name. Hortense’s father, Joseph’s, mother’s name, Continue reading
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