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On Tue, 24 May 2016, Alfred Falk wrote:

> 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.)
>
I just assumed it was named after Lord Elgin, but no, I didn't see 
anything to actually suggest that.  I was thinking "he has lots of places 
named after him".

   Michael

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