Margaret Dougherty 🇨🇦 🍁
@emdeeinto.bsky.social
Cousin collector/#genealogy/#familyhistory…Royals, history, crime/historical fiction, 🇨🇦politics, figure skating
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Pleased to welcome King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia to Ottawa today.
There is growing momentum in trade, innovation, defence, and industrial co-operation between Canada and Sweden. We’ll work together to capitalise on those new opportunities for our workers and businesses.
There is growing momentum in trade, innovation, defence, and industrial co-operation between Canada and Sweden. We’ll work together to capitalise on those new opportunities for our workers and businesses.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Pleased to welcome King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia to Ottawa today.
There is growing momentum in trade, innovation, defence, and industrial co-operation between Canada and Sweden. We’ll work together to capitalise on those new opportunities for our workers and businesses.
There is growing momentum in trade, innovation, defence, and industrial co-operation between Canada and Sweden. We’ll work together to capitalise on those new opportunities for our workers and businesses.
Free webinar 7:30 p.m tonight! Pre-1924 adoption in Quebec: History, law and legacy. Registration link at genquebec.com #genealogy
Quebec Genealogical eSociety |
genquebec.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Free webinar 7:30 p.m tonight! Pre-1924 adoption in Quebec: History, law and legacy. Registration link at genquebec.com #genealogy
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Still Life with Cat
Jori Smith
1951
Jori Smith
1951
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Still Life with Cat
Jori Smith
1951
Jori Smith
1951
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Pierre calls it medical freedom, I call it irresponsibility.
Why we have measles spreading.
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Why we have measles spreading.
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Pierre calls it medical freedom, I call it irresponsibility.
Why we have measles spreading.
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
Why we have measles spreading.
www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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This is the relationship Canada and the United States had, and in some ways still has. This is the relationship Trump has tried his absolute best to deliberately destroy.
boston sent vital assistance following the 1917 halifax harbor explosion (so awful it killed 1700 people), and as thanks, nova scotia has sent us a christmas tree every year. it’s a nice little tradition. this is the first time the boston mayor visited to retrieve it in person
In Canada, Wu helps chop down Boston's Christmas tree
Mayor Michelle Wu spent three days in Nova Scotia, saying she wanted to affirm Boston's relationship with Canada amid antagonism from the Trump administration.
www.boston.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is the relationship Canada and the United States had, and in some ways still has. This is the relationship Trump has tried his absolute best to deliberately destroy.
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My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump
thewalrus.ca/my-familys-2...
thewalrus.ca/my-familys-2...
My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump | The Walrus
I turned to history—and my ancestors—to understand the country’s resistance to American domination
thewalrus.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My Family’s 240-Year Journey Shows Why Canada Will Never Bow to Trump
thewalrus.ca/my-familys-2...
thewalrus.ca/my-familys-2...
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It’s time to be our own best customer. It’s time to Buy Canadian.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s time to be our own best customer. It’s time to Buy Canadian.
This matters for all of us, regardless of where you live in #Canada.
Alberta's government invoked the Notwithstanding Clause this week to force teachers back to work and reportedly plans to use it again against trans kids in the coming days.
When governments can override rights with one vote, no one is safe. Sign the petition to defend the Charter.
savethecharter.ca
When governments can override rights with one vote, no one is safe. Sign the petition to defend the Charter.
savethecharter.ca
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This matters for all of us, regardless of where you live in #Canada.
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Alberta's government invoked the Notwithstanding Clause this week to force teachers back to work and reportedly plans to use it again against trans kids in the coming days.
When governments can override rights with one vote, no one is safe. Sign the petition to defend the Charter.
savethecharter.ca
When governments can override rights with one vote, no one is safe. Sign the petition to defend the Charter.
savethecharter.ca
October 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Alberta's government invoked the Notwithstanding Clause this week to force teachers back to work and reportedly plans to use it again against trans kids in the coming days.
When governments can override rights with one vote, no one is safe. Sign the petition to defend the Charter.
savethecharter.ca
When governments can override rights with one vote, no one is safe. Sign the petition to defend the Charter.
savethecharter.ca
‘I was under duress’: Prince Harry apologizes to Canada for wearing L.A. Dodgers hat during World Series www.ctvnews.ca/canada/royal... #royals Days later…….
‘I was under duress’: Prince Harry apologizes to Canada for wearing L.A. Dodgers hat during World Series
Prince Harry was spotted wearing a Dodgers hat during Game 4 of the 2025 World Series between the L.A. Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays, Canada’s only Major League Baseball franchise.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
‘I was under duress’: Prince Harry apologizes to Canada for wearing L.A. Dodgers hat during World Series www.ctvnews.ca/canada/royal... #royals Days later…….
The sleuthing behind groundbreaking entries of early Black Torontonians in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, by Natasha Henry-Dixon. #TOpoli #CDNpoli
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
They Were Right Here: Tracing Black People Enslaved in the Town of York - Spacing Toronto
The presence of Black children, women, and men who were enslaved in Upper Canada has been omitted from, or marginalized, in the Canadian historical narrative. Because of my years of research on slaver...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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#NewBio! Margaret Gascoigne (1876–1934), educator, school administrator, and musician.
She immigrated to #Montreal in 1913 and opened The Study, a private English-language girls’ school, which developed a reputation for high educational achievement. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gasco...
She immigrated to #Montreal in 1913 and opened The Study, a private English-language girls’ school, which developed a reputation for high educational achievement. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gasco...
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#NewBio! Margaret Gascoigne (1876–1934), educator, school administrator, and musician.
She immigrated to #Montreal in 1913 and opened The Study, a private English-language girls’ school, which developed a reputation for high educational achievement. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gasco...
She immigrated to #Montreal in 1913 and opened The Study, a private English-language girls’ school, which developed a reputation for high educational achievement. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gasco...
My grandfather fought and survived diphtheria in a field tent like this, late in the First World War after four years at the Front.
Interior of a Field Hospital Tent
John W. Beatty
1918
John W. Beatty
1918
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My grandfather fought and survived diphtheria in a field tent like this, late in the First World War after four years at the Front.
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House of Ypres
A.Y. Jackson
1917
A.Y. Jackson
1917
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
House of Ypres
A.Y. Jackson
1917
A.Y. Jackson
1917
Great headline. #royals torontolife.com/city/noted-d...
Noted Dodgers fan Prince Harry will be in Toronto this week - Toronto Life
If you see him, tell him, “Let’s go, Blue Jays!”
torontolife.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great headline. #royals torontolife.com/city/noted-d...
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I’m not a baseball follower, but I did get on this bandwagon here in my hometown, and yes, it was magical. #GoBlueJays
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I’m not a baseball follower, but I did get on this bandwagon here in my hometown, and yes, it was magical. #GoBlueJays
All of this. Twice a year. Stop turning the clocks. There are no savings in daylight savings time.
November 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
All of this. Twice a year. Stop turning the clocks. There are no savings in daylight savings time.
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Andrew’s shocking fall from royal grace is unprecedented. Why King Charles went scorched earth on his brother
My analysis for @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/news/world/r...
My analysis for @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/news/world/r...
October 31, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Andrew’s shocking fall from royal grace is unprecedented. Why King Charles went scorched earth on his brother
My analysis for @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/news/world/r...
My analysis for @thestar.com
www.thestar.com/news/world/r...
Single senior paying income taxes in #Canada? Know a single senior taxpayer? Please sign and share.
Sign a petition to the Government of Canada, open until December 28, 2025.Click on this link and fill out the form.In the email that you will receive from the House of Commons,click on the link "Please confirm your support to complete the process" Share the link.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6831 - Petitions
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October 30, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Single senior paying income taxes in #Canada? Know a single senior taxpayer? Please sign and share.