Archive - ancestory

Saint-Henri 1961: House Calls

Visits to a vanished world

Sep 15 •

August 2024

Montreal 1878: Boyne's Red Shore

Who is entitled to public spaces? Who has the right to use public space and for what purpose? What are the limits of free expression? Con Maguire's…

Aug 29 •

June 2024

Longue-Pointe 1921: Pure Dreams of Solitary Birds

Sometimes the locked doors in the house of your family history can lead to glorious hidden gardens.

Jun 1 •

May 2024

Griffintown 1861: Molten Metal

A life retold from a single sentence

May 8 •

March 2024

A Saint Patrick's Day Queen

Memory takes its own pictures

Mar 15 •

February 2024

New York 1953: Take Me To The Circus

Feb 25 •

January 2024

Montreal 1936: October's Child

The story of Patrick, Edna, and Jane

Jan 1 •

October 2023

A Reluctant Time Traveller

A week in Paris might ease the bite of it

Oct 20, 2023 •

September 2023

Cape Town 1939: Leaves on the Wind

The Caseys of Newport

Sep 10, 2023 •

July 2023

Ogdensburg 1929: Edna Smith's bitter homecoming

Another century's American migrants

Jul 30, 2023

June 2023

Montreal 1865: A Grocer from Omagh

John Maguire's lost immigrant dream

Jun 25, 2023 •

May 2023

Montreal 1916: The Irish Canadian Rangers

Conor Maguire's war

May 29, 2023 •

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