[Arbor : Tree] + [Borealis : Northern]
Map of Glenarb, Dyan, Kedew, &c. Image credit. This blog is written to highlight a search for the children of James Huggins, jun., who have disappeared from the Irish records. The several children of interest were born in the parish of Aghaloo and county of Tyrone, and baptised in the parish church of St. John…
Continue reading ➞ In search of four children of James Huggins, jun., of Glenarb
Like so many other Irishmen from the province of Ulster, young Thomas Huggins ventured out to the American colonies in the early 1770s, to seek his fortune. It seems unlikely that a Revolutionary War was a part of the 18th century American Dream that Thomas sought—but that, indeed, is what he got. Equally, it is…
Continue reading ➞ A Huggins thorn in George Washington’s revolutionary side
The Ottawa Evening Journal, 6th December 1917. "1300 Killed at Halifax." On this day, 6th December 2015, a ceremony is underway to commemorate the Halifax Explosion which devastated the north end of the city ninety-eight years ago. Every year, people gather beside the Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower, to mark the wartime marine disaster which…
Continue reading ➞ The Halifax Explosion, 6 Dec. 1917: Epitaph for Merle Huggins