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jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote in
news:PM000533953B662FEF@aca423de.ipt.aol.com: 

> Alfred Falk wrote:
>> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote in
>> news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1605232317380.19694@darkstar.example.org: 
>>
>>> On Mon, 23 May 2016, Osmium wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Michael Black" wrotee:
>>>>
>>>>> Years ago, a cousin of my mother who was interested in genealogy
>>>>> did a family tree on my father's side, and that was it.  Then about
>>>>> 2009 I started doing searches, and it's amazing how much is online.
>>>>>  Not just the family tree, but all kinds of history of it.  I am
>>>>> sort of torn, on one hand the family did have some role in
>>>>> "history", but at the same time, they left a lot of paper around,
>>>>> so it's easier for people to study them. 
>>>>
>>>> I never thought of my grandmother as a social butterfly but I found
>>>> an internet account of her hosting her card club in the 1930s.  I
>>>> looked for it recently and it had "gone missing" as people sometimes
>>>> say. 
>>>>
>>> I've been saving some of the stuff locally, precisely because I don't
>>> trust that it will remain in place.  Some cousin I'd never heard of
>>> had the family tree up on his page, but that's disappeared, I fear
>>> he's disappeared too.
>>>
>>> It is shakey.  My great, great grandmother Henrietta is in the
>>> Canadian Museum of History, at least their webpage, just a small bit
>>> representing half breeds.  Her picture is readily available
>>> elsewhere, I have a book with her photo in it. (I assume it's the
>>> only photo of her, it wasn't the time of snapshot cameras).  But
>>> museums change their displays, so I can imagine her getting bumped at
>>> some point.  There's no information at that site about her that isn't
>>> elsewhere, but it's kind of neat that she's there (and I assume
>>> because her photo and identity was already out there, not because
>>> she's that important). 
>>>
>>> I figured if I made the trip to the actual museum, I'd say "You mean
>>> I don't get free entry?  But that's my great, great grandmother you
>>> have on display!".
>>>
>>> Some of her siblings got streets named after them in what became
>>> Winnipeg. But her younger sister Jemima (yes Aunt Jemima), who had
>>> self esteem issues (actually all the siblings suffered a bit from
>>> that), her street was renamed, so there's no longer a Jemima Street,
>>> just an Elgin Street.
>>
>> Elgin _Avenue_. Not far from the location of my earliest childhood
>> memories. And even closer to my first home, of which I have no
>> memories.  A lot of the short streets near there have women's names:
>> Lulu, Dorothy, Gwendoline, etc. I suppose the next avenue north is
>> also named for your ancestors? 
> 
> It sounds like it was a matriarchical society.

Not really.  The streets with girls' names are almost all short and 
inconsequential residential.  The important thoroughfares are mostly 
surnames, genereally recognizing important maen.  I would not be surprised 
to learn that the rationale for changing "Jemima" to "Elgin" was along those 
lines.  I'm pretty sure there was no direct connection to Winnipeg, but the 
8th Lord Elgin was important in Canadian History as Governor of Upper and 
Lower Canada. Or it might have been to honour some man from Elginshire.  (I 
haven't researched this.)
 
> /BAH

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