Those born outside Canada before Bill C-3 took effect must show they have a parent/ancestor who was a Canadian citizen after 1 Jan 1947, the effective date of the 🇨🇦 Citizenship Act and those living in Canada became Canadian, rather than British, citizens. NL: after 1 Apr 1949 when it joined Canada."

Two weeks before the tournament begins, the US administration is threatening to ban planes from landing in several World Cup cities. We're about to find out, again, just how evil, crazy, and reckless these guys are. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...

Free idea for the "remain" (sigh) campaign with the Alberta referendum: Take Wab Kinew's glorious quote and print up a boatload of t-shirts that say "HECK YEAH." I predict you'd sell out in a hot minute across the country. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

I just made a second update to the guide for this month, which revises the number of issues of the Telegram now available via Newspapers_dot_com and...is that the later years of the Toronto Sunday World I see at the TPL? jamiebradburncreative.wordpress.com/online-newsp...

What can the mayor of Toronto do, exactly? People want to believe a mayor is empowered to fix all their city’s problems — but the reality is a lot different. As you cast your vote this October, here’s what you need to know about what the mayor you’re voting for can and can’t do.

Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story is officially released in North America today (PGC Books in Canada). It is *the* biography to read. open.substack.com/pub/writeroy...

My latest in the Where It Starts series. This time I look at Quebec and how its sovereignty movement, and the history that led to it, vastly differs from the one being pushed in my home province of Alberta 👇 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Enjoy one of Historica Canada’s excellent Heritage Minutes about Queen Victoria….on Victoria Day.

Free event! Please RSVP at torontofamilyhistory.org/event/sharin...

Yes, it’s a thing. One of those only in Canada things.

The Lilac Bush at the Artist's Home - Thornhill House J.E.H. MacDonald 1929

Almost missed peak tulip season.

AMERICANS: It’s time to complete YOUR census (as designed by a Canadian)

#Genealogy Both Ancestry & MyHeritage recently updated their terms of service. Read what the Legal Genealogist Judy Russell has to say about the changes: www.legalgenealogist.com/2026/05/12/a...

They applied to reclaim their Canadian citizenship by descent even before other Americans started jumping on the bandwagon. But now they feel punished for filing their application too soon. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Another great genealogy project you can use for the 250th anniversary to help you find a Mayflower passenger with a descendant patriot from the Revolutionary War. nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/09/patr... #genealogy #RevolutionaryWar #Mayflower

Bless her cotton socks. #BookSky

This isn’t the self-own you think it is.

Just fill it out. #Canada

Recent changes to the Canadian Citizenship Act have fuelled a surge of Americans turning to Canadian church archives in their bid to prove Canadian ancestry.

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Toronto from the marsh, 1873 Artist: Lucius Richard O'Brien (1832-1899) Medium: Watercolour Private Collection #1870s #art #torontohistory #watercolor #jeremyhopkin

Great Toronto Star story about Canada’s Bill C-3 impact on archives requests. “People are very upfront about why they’re interested in getting citizenship...my favourite term was ‘the post-capitalist fascist hellscape.” #genealogy #familyhistory

Lilas Joseph-Charles Franchère c. 1911

#genealogy #familyhistory

The perfect family portrait. #sophiefromromania is such a different dog these days. Not just happy but joyful. That’s thanks very largely to just the kind of people Diane and Rory are. She still needs help with things of a scary nature but, well, what a wonderful family

Sigh. I got the short form #Census2026 #Canada

On Toronto's island airport, only Carney can stop the madness. Where is the case for an expansion? And what else could this place be? My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Statistics Canada reminds people in 🇨🇦 that today is Census Day as well as Star Wars Day. You’ll get your access code by mail and enter that at the provided questionnaire link to complete your census. May the 4th be with you.

As the controversies over the future of Billy Bishop Airport continue to evolve, here's a recent piece I wrote for Toronto Today (@torontotoday.ca) on the many attempts to expand the island airport. Spoiler: they almost never succeed. #TOHistory #TOpoli #onpoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/histor...

Liberal MPs have been playing playing passive, coy & cagey w their real island airport feelings, but they’re deeply implicated - even making concrete expansion plans! I go thru some of them in my @thestar.com column today & why they owe Torontonians some honest loyalty. They could stop it today.

This moment felt to me like a big turning point for the government, so I tried to pinpoint what it is. Mark Carney’s honeymoon is ending - just not in the way most people expected. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Elusive street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a new sculpture in central London.

If there’s one thing that can generate enough energy to bring down Big Dumb Doug Ford, it’s outrage over his cynical strategy to sabotage our public health care system at every turn. 🤔🧐😖 #onpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

In today’s @theglobeandmail.com #royals

Daffodils Sophie Pemberton 1897

Window on Main Street Frances-Anne Johnston 1965

Great news for family historians ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

And York? It was renamed Toronto about 20 years later.

King Charles III has been trained to avoid controversy. Today, he meets with a president who can't seem to stay away from it. Read more from Autumn Brewington:

Same girl. Same bike. 71 years apart.

Saint-Pierre review – this gentle cop show is like a Canadian Death in Paradise

#royals from a 🇨🇦 view www.thestar.com/news/world/r...

NEW: Premier Doug Ford’s $28.9M “gravy plane” has crashed and burned. Ford is selling the executive jet two days after the ⁦‪@TorontoStar revealed he had bought it. (h/t @l_stone who was first with the U-turn.) www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

The Frogs Sing Loudly in Spring Christi Belcourt ~ Métis 2021

44 years ago today, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed into law. It laid the foundation for a stronger, more just Canada. It is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter — to keep building a better Canada, for all.

7pm Tonight! Join me for "Rails Reclaimed", my Second Tuesday Zoom talk for the Toronto Railway Museum. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. www.tickettailor.com/events/toron... #torontohistory #streetcarhistory #transit #torontorailwaymuseum #jeremyhopkin

This month's Kelowna & District Genealogical Society forum features Mary Read on "Research in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta" #Genealogy #FamlyHistory orl.libcal.com/calendar/kel...

Tomorrow, Saturday 11 April.