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Smith Landers Lookup

Posted: 30 Sep 2001 5:28AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 21 Apr 2002 4:43AM GMT
Surnames: Smith, Landers
Hi Bonnie,

Yes, I think it is.
My grandmother Ruth Smith married John Angus Landers abt. 1910-1920 in Cobalt. They then lived in Timmins.
I have been trying to find her parents and all I have is George and Anne (no maiden name ) Smith.
This will give me a starting point.

Thank you so much,
Maureen

Thank You!

Maureen (View posts)
Posted: 4 Oct 2001 1:54AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks Bonnie,
I appreciate all your help.
Maureen

Davey or Menard Look Up

tammy (View posts)
Posted: 6 Oct 2001 6:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Mar 2002 12:34AM GMT
Surnames: Dave, Menard
Hello Bonnie:

Could you check and see if there are any Davey's or Menard's in your book. I would give you some names but I am finding out that my family did not use their real first names

Tammy

Faubert and Hodge Look Up

Posted: 9 Oct 2001 6:15PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Mar 2002 12:36AM GMT
Surnames: Faubert, Bougie, Hodge
Hi Bonnie:
In your book "The Great Fire of 1922", is there any mention of Amable Faubert at Larder Lake. Amable was a brother to my husbands grandfather, Napoleon Faubert & Amanda Bougie. We are at a dead end with my husbands father, Wilfred Laurier Hodge, who died in 1951 at Wabiwawa,near Kirkland Lake. Could you please check for WL Hodge as well if you have time. I would be very grateful. Thank you
Carolyn & Bill Hodge

Gray or Neal Look Up

Posted: 10 Dec 2001 3:39AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 24 Jul 2005 11:56AM GMT
Surnames: Gray, Neal
Are there any Gray or Neal folk listed?
Thanks

Gray or Neal Look Up

Bonnie (View posts)
Posted: 10 Dec 2001 9:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Mar 2002 12:38AM GMT
Surnames: Neal, Bailey, Gray
I have an Elsie (Bailey) Neal and a Superintendent V. Ivan Gray. Are you interested in these persons? If you are I will send the information to you by email. Be sure to include your email address.

Thanks
Bonnie

LaBine Look Up

Posted: 19 Jan 2002 5:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Aug 2005 6:29PM GMT
Surnames: Labine, Guedry, Guidry, Gidry, Geddry, Jeddry, Guildry, LaBean
Bonnie, I wondering if you might look in your book and see it it list my grandfather James LaBine is listed or any other LaBine's as I reseraching the family. Thank you.

Daryl LaBine
labine@iname.com
Web page of "The Guedry, Guidry, Gidry, Geddry, Jeddry, Guildry dit LaBine, LaBine & LaBean Family"
http://www.mergetel.com/~labine/

John Labine's Story

Bonnie (View posts)
Posted: 19 Jan 2002 7:09PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Mar 2002 12:42AM GMT
Surnames: Labine, Ship, Hillcoat, Jarvis
Hello Daryl,

The following story is found in the book The Great Fire of 1922. I am not
sure if this is an ancestor of yours, however, here is the story as written:

JOHN LABINE'S STORY

"My family lived at Maybrook, situated on the railroad line between Uno Park
and Thornloe. We had a store and the local post office in our house. We
also had a barn with a stable and hay loft. At the time of the fire, we had
fifteen head of cattle and two teams of horses. The horses and cattle were
all burned in the fire because they would not leave the stable. The house
and other buildings were all burned too. We had a saw mill, with piles of
logs and lumber on the north side of the station. They were all burned.
Nothing was left but ashes and twisted metal".

"I was nine years old at the time and had gone as usual to school on the
train to Uno Park. In the afternoon it was so smoky that my teacher took me
up to the station to get on the train. The train had gone past, but only
got as far as Maybrook because the heat from the burning saw mill and the
piles of logs and lumber had warped the rails. The train crew picked up my
mother, Helen, and the other small children, who were in the ditch along the
railroad track and took them back to Uno Park".

"We went to Welbourne's store and changed into dry clothes. Then the store
caught fire and we had to go down to Butcher's, who lived along the Wabi
River. We stayed there most of the night until my uncle, Sam Ship, picked
us up in his car and took us to Harry Ship, my grandfather, in Kerns
Township. The next morning the ground was white with snow".

"My father, Joseph, got a job running a lath mill at Krugerdorf. Our family
moved to Krugerdorf and my mother, Helen, did the cooking for the camp. In
the spring, my eldest brother, Emmitt, and I came back to Maybrook and built
a small building to live in. My family moved back to Maybrook and lived in
this building during the summer while a new house was constructed. We got
the post office back but did not have a store. Robert Hillcoat had taken
care of the mail while our family was absent. He lived a mile and a half
from Maybrook and had too send and pick up the mail twice a day. He met the
north bound noon train, No. 47, and the south bound evening train, No. 46.
He must have been glad to see us return". This is the end of JOHN LABINE'S
story. The following is an excerpt from the Bill Jarvis story which
mentions the Labine farm:

"Following the fire, I recall going to the Joseph Labine farm and seeing the
bodies of pigs, all pink with their hair burned off, dead chickens scattered
aaround which were roasted and had no feathers, and the bloated bodies of
eight to ten cows".

Daryl, I hope that this is the Labine family you are researching. It does
not mention John Labine, however. Let me know if this helps you.

Sincerely
Bonnie

Re: Look Ups LaBine family

Posted: 19 Jan 2002 8:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Aug 2005 6:29PM GMT
Surnames: Guedry, Petitpas, LaBine
Bonnie,

Thank you very much for looking up the information in the book "The Great Fire of 1922". I know of John, as I was at his fifty anniversary for him and Bessie a number of years ago. It was from this family gathering that I started tracing the family. I have been able to trace the family back to Claude Guedry and Marguerite Petitpas in the 1670' as the family is an Acadian one. With the help of others I have been able to connect over twenty thousand family members back to this couple.

As for my grandfather James LaBine, I was told that he had owned a number of houses in that area but for some reason he did not have insurance on them. I was also told he held the mortgage on the church and at one time I understood that he owned a lumber mill there.

It was a tragic event for the people but I am glad at least it has been written down so others will know of it.
Thanks again for looking up the information, as I will be adding it to what I have on the family.

Daryl LaBine
labine@iname.com
Web page of "The Guedry, Guidry, Gidry, Geddry, Jeddry, Guildry dit LaBine, LaBine & LaBean Family"
http://www.mergetel.com/~labine/

Sabourin Look Up

Posted: 1 Feb 2002 1:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Jul 2002 6:57PM GMT
Surnames: Sabourin
Any mentioning of the Sabourin's in your book
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