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Biggar Root Booster
Newsletter Biggar Branch Saskatchewan Genealogical Society
Volume 14, Nos. 3 and 4 Summer/Fall 2008
Biggar Museum & Gallery
Selects Community Centennial Project
The Biggar Museum & Gallery is excited to announce it has selected a community project - One Hundred People, One Hundred Years, Biggar, Saskatchewan 1911 to 2011, to mark the Centennial of the Town of Biggar in 2011. The project, the publication of a book telling the story of the one hundred people, who had an impact upon our community during the last 100 years. These are the people who shaped and nurtured our community, our children, our aged, our spiritual needs, our healthiness, our intellect and our community spirit for a century. Some of these Biggarites you never knew, but you heard stories about what they did for the town and its citizens. The book will be published for 2011.

It is being called a community project because it is up to Biggar residents past and present to nominate those they feel worthy to be included in the book. Organizers are hopeful the nominations will cover all the decades. There are some individuals who’s dedication and commitment to their cause crosses several decades.
The Biggar Museum & Gallery is now accepting registrations for nominations. Written nominations must tell what the person did to make himself or herself worthy of the nomination. The submission should also include some biographical information but nothing that invades the individuals right to privacy. Entries should be 1,500 words or less. Whenever possible, submit a photograph of the person being nominated as the photograph will be published along with the essay.

Deadline for nominations is May 15, 2010. Please do not wait for the deadline.
The project is limited to the first one hundred entries registered and which are then followed up with the nominations papers being submitted to the Biggar Museum & Gallery before the deadline. All submissions become the property of the Biggar Museum & Gallery Our volunteers would like to have the nominations in as early as possible so that the project may be completed before they become involved with other activities connected with the Centennial. Our volunteers have busy lives, so it is important everyone cooperates to make this project a great success.

Project brochures with writer’s guidelines, registration form, etc. are available for pick up at the Biggar Museum & Gallery and soon on the museum website at:
http://www.bigmusga.sasktelwetsite.net

If you have any questions contact the Biggar Museum & Gallery.
Please tell all your relatives and friends who are now living elsewhere about the project.We expect they will have people who they will want to nominate.If you are going to nominate someone please fill in the registration form that comes with the writer’s guidelines and drop it off or mail it to the Biggar Museum & Gallery so a record can be kept of the people being nominated but whose nomination isn’t yet filed with the museum. You may check with the museum to find out if the person you want to see nominated has been nominated to avoid duplication.


Let’s show our community spirit and make this community project a legacy to the centennial of the Town of Biggar.
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A Nation's Chronicle: The Canada Gazette Canada's official newspaper now online
OTTAWA, May 13, 2008 _ Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is proud to announce the launch of the first in a series of websites dedicated to opening its vaults and sharing more of Canada's documentary heritage online. This week, a new website, entitled A Nation's Chronicle: The Canada Gazette, was launched making the entire Canada Gazette available online for the first time.

Often referred to as "the official newspaper of the Government of Canada," the Canada Gazette has been an important instrument in the Canadian democratic process for more than 160 years. It has informed Canadians of the operations of government and encouraged them to participate in the legislative process.

While current issues of the Gazette are now available on the website of the Canada Gazette Directorate, the online database of LAC's web site will allow access to all issues dating back to the very first, published in 1841. The database presently contains approximately 30% (almost 300,000 pages) of the total Canada Gazette, including images taken from microfilm, microfiche and rare original copies of the Gazette held at Library and Archives Canada. The digitization of this material is still underway, but in the fall of 2008 the earliest issues of the Gazette, from 1841 to 1950 will be added . By spring 2009, all issues of the Canada Gazette will be accessible online.

Launch Announcement for the Second World War Service Files Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the launch of a new online database, Second World War Service Files: Canadian Armed Forces War Dead.
Through this online database, researchers can access references to the service files in the Department of National Defence Fonds (RG 24) for the members of the Canadian Armed Forces who lost their lives during this conflict. Over 1,159,000 men and women served in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Second World War (1939_1945) and 44,093 people lost their lives.

The database is available at: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/war_dead/index_e.html

Library and Archives Canada gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, without which this project would not have been possible.
About the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Established by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. It is a non_profit_making organization that was founded by Sir Fabian Ware. Since its inception, the Commission has constructed 2,500 war cemeteries and plots, erecting headstones over graves and, in instances where the remains are missing, inscribing the names of the dead on permanent memorials. Over one million casualties are now commemorated at military and civil sites in some 150 countries.

About Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada collects and preserves Canada's documentary heritage, and makes it accessible to all Canadians. This heritage includes publications, archival records, sound and audio_visual materials, photographs, artworks, and electronic documents such as websites. The Canadian Genealogy Centre includes all physical and online genealogical services of Library and Archives Canada. It offers genealogical content, services, advice, research tools and opportunities to work on joint projects, all in both official languages.
The contributions of many LAC staff were instrumental in the success of this project, and their efforts are much appreciated. For more information, please contact Sylvie Tremblay, Chief, Canadian Genealogy Centre at cgc_ccg@lac_bac.gc.ca.

Popular Websites

Saskatchewan Genealogical Society http://www.saskgenealogy.com

  • Saskatchewan Homestead Index http://www.saskhomesteads.comIf you have anyone who homestead in Saskatchewan this is the site to search for the homestead file.

  • Saskatchewan Genealogical Indexes https://www.isc.ca/VitalStatistics/Genealogy/vsgs_srch.aspx NEW ADDRESS Free searchable online databases for births more than 100 years ago, deaths more than 70 years ago, currently only includes deaths prior to 1917 and marriages more than 75 years ago to come in the future.


  • Library and Archives Canada http://www.genealogy.gc.ca This site includes many online searchable databases, census records and passenger ships lists which are viewable online.




  • FamilySearch - FREE mega site. http://www.familysearch.org Family History Library, Salt Lake City website. Be sure to search the locality catalogue.



  • World Gen Web Project - links to Countries, States/Provinces which participate in the World Gen Web Project. World-wide coverage. http://www.worldgenweb.org





  • Free BMD http://www.freebmd.rootsweb.com - a free site where volunteers are transcribing the Civil Registration index for births, deaths & marriages of England and Wales from 1837 to early 1900's.

  • RootsWeb http://www.rootsweb.com - a megasite - include family trees, message boards, databases, world wide covereage.

  • Ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com - commercial subscription website. Major content is for United States, but they have databases for Canada, England, Germany, Australia.

  • findmypast.com http://www.findmypast.com - commercial, subscription or voucher website. British website with passenger ship lists indexed from 1890 to 1960. Also have census records indexed. Some indexes not complete. Also one may view the original Civil Registration Indexes and Will Indexes.


  • inGeneas http://www.ingeneas.com - indexing includes early passenger ship lists arriving in Canada and Canadian Immigration Records

  • Castle Garden http://www.castlegarden.org - searchable database for the United States first immigration centre for 1830 to 1892 for passengers arriving in New York.

  • Ellis Island http://www.ellisisland.org - searchable database of Immigration centre for passengers arriving in New York from 1892 to 1954.

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