Mr. Michael Kelly from Ottawa, ( mikell@magma.ca ) sent us this information about the Casey; Grimes; Kane; Delaney families


You may wish to add to your Montreal links:

James Casey, son of John Casey and Marian Grimes, was born in St. Columban 1869-6-13 (baptized the 16th) and died in Montreal 1935-6-3.

He married 1893-2-8 at St. Ann's in Montreal:

Catherine Kane, daughter of Peter Kane and Elizabeth Delaney, born in Sillery 1859-6-21, died in Montreal 1945-3-31.

They are both buried in Notre Dame des Neiges, plot I1115.

I can also provide information on their children if you are interested.

Michael Kelly
Ottawa

Claude's Book launch yesterday was great and attended by a number of people from our group including Anne; Kelley; Audrey & Ken... The book, itself is very neat. We took some pictures of the event and hope to post them soon.

Claude also gave us an opportunity to speak to the group in attendance about our restoration project. And we were also able to discuss the project with Mr. Charbonneau, the Mayor of St-Colomban and a representative of the Federal member of Parliment for the area and others - Great conversations and obvious support for our efforts.

In addition, we did slightly update our plan for the monument and Jeff has included an updated view at this link:-

http://www.stcolumban-irish.com/Restoration/Restoration-Proposals.html

Of course, this is still in the planning stage. People liked the idea and certainly the concept of making the wall in brick as per a design used in the Huntington Cemetery which Ken Neil included in his report on possibilities. We'll try to get an image of this brick wall idea posted soon so that everyone can see what we are talking about...

Take Care everyone....

Just a quick reminder that the official launch of Claude's new book about St. Columban is scheduled for today - Saturday, June 3rd 2006.

This book launch will take place at 4 pm this afternoon, at the Hotel de Ville (City Hall) in St-Colomban.

Hope some of our group will be able to attend.

Congratulations, once again, to Claude on this great publication.

If you would like more information about this book, just go to our opening page on the main site at www.stcolumban-irish.com and click on the book on the right of the page.

We may have mentioned this web site before.

It is a McGill University site that mentions a whole bunch of stuff about Montreal around 1816 or so.. (about the same time that first settlers to St. Columban started to arrive in Montreal).

It is fun & interesting to read .....

[url]http://www.education.mcgill.ca/profs/cartwright/rawdon/mtlin1816.htm[/url]

I don't believe that many of our members were actually born in Ireland, however at the request of the Irish Embassy in Ottawa, I am posting the following just in case it is of interest to visitors to this forum:-


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Dear Irish Societies of Canada,

Please find attached herewith a press release from the Department of the Taoiseach from 30th April 2006, which the Embassy feels may be of interest to you and your members.

If you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

Tara Richey
Personal Assistant to Ambassador Burke
Embassy of Ireland
1105-130 Albert Street
Ottawa ON  K1P 5G4
tel no. (613) 233-6281 ext 223
fax no. (613) 233-5835
web site: www.irishembassyottawa.com
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Press Release issued by Department of the Taoiseach, 30th April 2006

Centenarian?s Bounty to be extended following Government Approval.
Irish Citizens born in the Island of Ireland who live outside the State to benefit
The Government has approved in principle the extension of the scheme for the payment of the Centenarians? Bounty to any Irish citizen who was born in the Island of Ireland, regardless of where he or she may currently reside.  Up to now the Bounty, which currently amounts to ?2,500, was payable only to centenarians living in the State.

Commenting today on the announcement An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD, said: "While we now enjoy a flourishing economy and have become a country of immigration rather than emigration, history shows that many thousands of our people had to leave Ireland out of economic necessity.  Many built remarkable lives for themselves abroad and contributed substantially to their adopted countries.  We see huge evidence of this to this day with people of Irish ancestry to the fore worldwide in all walks of life.  Many of these people continued to support families back home and it is well known that the families they had to leave behind relied on the envelopes that would arrive from overseas.

My Government?s decision that the Centenarians? Bounty should be extended equally to Irish people where ever they are in the world is a token of the regard this country has for those people, for what they did and for the sacrifices they had to make.

The Department of Foreign Affairs are informing Irish Community Organisations abroad of this very positive development. This is a further step reflecting the Governments deep appreciation and recognition of Irish Communities abroad.?

Ends

We have been noted again in the St. Patrrick's Society of Montreal newsletter, this month of May 2006. It certainly helps to keep our project front and centre in the Montreal Irish community. To see the text of the artcile, please click below...

http://www.stcolumban-irish.com/Publishe...index.html

Here is a quick sketch of what we might want to consider, based on our discussion at our last Restoration meeting. (It may be a little hard to see).

At this point it is only in the preliminary concept stage since we do not have permission from the Church yet to install such a structure; and, of course, we do not have a cost estimate at this point.

The proportions are directly related to research done about the Celtic Cross. Of course, the size could change depending on the space available in the cemetery. But, of course, if we, for example made the main walls longer then the arm walls would also change in length etc?.

As you can see, the ends of all the walls are open to allow someone to walk around the structure and view the broken tombstones that we would imbed likely in both sides of the various walls. We have also added a bench in the middle?.

As I say, it is just a starting point ??.

We will include a proper bilingual notice somewhere on the site in the next day or two.

[highlight]But, I did want to let you know quickly, that Claude?s new updated book about St. Columban is now available [/highlight]!!

As most of you know the book is basically written in French - but it does have more than 500 photos and maps etc. that might make it still interesting to someone who only speaks English.

The cost of this book, including postage is:

In the Montreal area - ? $ 48.00 ?(Canadian Dollars)
Elsewhere in Canada - ?$ 50.00 ?(Canadian Dollars)

In the USA - $ 50.00 (U.S. Dollars)

Elsewhere in the world ?- $ 52.10 (U.S. Dollars)

You can order the book by contacting Claude directly or simply sending him a check with your proper mailing address ... as follows:-

Claude Bourguignon
317 rue Seguin
Saint-Colomban, Quebec, Canada
J5K 1W1
e-mail : http://claude.bourguignon@videotron.ca

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Notice in French ....

Maintenant disponible

SAINT-COLOMBAN

Une ?pop?e irlandaise au pi?mont des Laurentides

?ditions d?ici l?, 2006

Auteur : Claude Bourguignon, ethnohistorien

277 pages, plus de 500 photos, cartes, croquis,

Co?t : frais de poste et manutention : r?gion de Montr?al 48$, Ailleurs au Canada 50$, USA 50$, ?partout dans le monde 52.10$.





Disponible uniquement en langue fran?aise

par courriel : claude.bourguignon@videotron.ca

par courrier :

Envoyez votre ch?que ? :



Claude Bourguignon

317, rue S?guin

Saint-Colomban (Qu?.) Canada,

J5K 1W1

Today is 2006 Census of Canada day. Be sure to fill in your form online or mail in ther paper version you should have received in the mail by now. Visit the site below if you did not receive your 2006 Census form:

http://www.census2006.ca/


Be sure to check the option to allow access to your basic vital information in 92 years so folks like us can find our records of existence.

Question 53 ensures that each person is given the opportunity to make an informed decision about what happens to his or her name-identified census information.

People who may be interested in accessing this kind of information in the distant future include genealogists who study family trees, historical researchers, academics and journalists.

If you choose to make your name-identified census information available in the future, you will make a valuable contribution to preserving Canada?s history for future generations.

Mr. Charbonneau, the mayor of St. Columban sent us this copy of an e-mail that he received (in French) from a group in France. This group is dedicated to the memory of St. Colomban - of course, our St. Columban is named after this saint who was appearently a favorite of Father Patrick Phelan ......

Monsieur le Maire,

           L?association ? les Amis de Saint Colomban ?de Luxeuil (Franche-Comt?), recherche des personnes ou associations, au sein de votre ville,  int?ress?es par l?Histoire de ce grand moine que fut Saint Colomban au VIe si?cle  en Europe.

           Notre association fond?e en 1948 a pour mission de perp?tuer l?image de cet illustre pionnier de la christianisation de la Gaule et la sauvegarde des sites colombaniens dans la r?gion, vous pouvez nous rendre visite sur notre site cr?? le 8 avril 2006 ? l?adresse :

http://www.amisaintcolomban.net

Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture depuis  le plan de site

En vous remerciant de votre collaboration, recevez Monsieur le Maire, nos salutations distingu?es.

Les Amis de saint Colomban

10 rue de Beauregard

70300     Luxeuil les Bains           France

Webmaster : jacques.prudhon@wanadoo.fr