Canada Project's Year in Review

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Canada Project

NEWSLETTER

December 2020

YEAR IN REVIEW

A Message from the Project’s Leaders

First, we would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the Project’s growth and development over the past year.  It is dedicated members like you that keep the project moving forward.  It is noticed and appreciated.

With December comes Christmas (Hanukkah/Kwanza) and family celebrations but it seems this year will be different for many of us.  We wish each and every one of you the best holiday season possible, and look forward to a better 2021!  Be safe, stay healthy, and find creative ways to make the holidays as special as they can be.

~ Dave, Amy and Doug

Team Updates

  • Geographic Teams

Our future newsletters will contain updates or summaries of our Geographic Teams' current activities.

Western CanadaThe British Columbia Team has been working away at various projects. We do a lot of sourcing of unsourced profiles and have made real progress on the numbers. We do this by identifying and tagging unsourced profiles then getting them sourced (or at least try). This is a real team effort! A couple of us have been improving and adding to the BC Notables profiles while others are working on a couple of cemetery projects. We have also begun work on profiles for a mining disaster (via the Disaster project) and we continue to improve the profiles of those who fought in the First World War. There is more as each team member works away at projects that interest them. Together this work helps us to paint the picture of the people who lived in this part of the world!

Atlantic CanadaAtlantic Canada currently has 49 members who are focused on an average of 1.5 provinces each, and 1 member belongs to all 4 provincial teams. 

Data doctors report 17,000 profiles in Prince Edward Island with 1.8% unsourced.  Newfoundland has about 43,000 profiles, with about 6% unsourced.  New Brunswick has 102,000 profiles, about 3% unsourced.  Nova Scotia shows nearly 110,000 profiles, 3.2% still unsourced.




 

  • Managed Profiles Team:

    • To be considered for inclusion in the project, an individual should have played an important role in the creation and evolution of Canada, had a significant impact on Canadian life or whose names have become synonymous with Canada. These include not only individuals like the Prime Ministers, Provincial Governors and Fathers of Confederation, but also other notable individuals whose names have become synonymous with Canada. Others will be considered on a case by case basis. Resources that we use include Wikipedia, Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada and The Canadian Encyclopedia

If you have suggestions for other profiles that should be managed, please enter the suggestions on the form at: Canadian Managed Profiles Suggestions Form

  • Specialty Teams

In each newsletter, issued quarterly, we’ll be providing updates on what each team is currently working on.  If you are interested in contributing to these updates, please let your Team Leader know.

New for 2021!

  • The Canada Project is introducing a Quarterly Newsletter (Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec) beginning December 2020, with this Year in Review issue.  If you are interested in contributing to the Newsletter, please let your Team Leader know.  A newsletter committee will be established and will meet on Discord.

  • There is a new Canada Project Discord server for anyone interested in joining discussions there.  Discord is not an official channel for WikiTree activity.  Instead, it provides us with an alternative platform for discussing research, for Team coordination, and discussion of new ideas.  All official discussion and announcements will continue to be done via the Google Group.  If you would like to join the Discord server, please let your Team Leader know.

  • The Canada Project will be introducing the Trans-Canada Orphan Trail in January, to support the Year of Accuracy initiative on WikiTree.  Using orphaned profiles that need some attention, new members (and existing members if you’re interested) will work through the program focusing on improving their skills, where to find reliable sources, and learning about Canadian history and geography.  No launch date has been set yet.  It is not required for existing project members, but is encouraged.  If you are interested in taking the Trail or becoming a Guide, please let one of the Project Leaders know.

Did You Know?

  • The population of Canada in 1867 was approximately 3.4 million people.  The country consisted of Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.  100 years later, the population was approximately 20.4 million people in ten provinces and two territories.  Today, in the ten provinces and three territories there are an estimated 37.7 million people living in Canada.

Just For Fun!

in The Tree House by Amy Gilpin G2G6 Pilot (214k points)
i think we will find out the us and canada have more in common lol

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+7 votes
 
Best answer
Sitting back in my chair, hanging out by a winter fire pit, eating tourtiére and poutine, with a beavertail chaser, sippin' very cold Canadian craft brew while reading this Newsletter - Good job y'all (wait) Good job, eh?!

Mags
by Mags Gaulden G2G6 Pilot (638k points)
selected by Amy Gilpin

I hope you've got vanilla ice cream and syrup for desert wink

What Mags didn't say she had her slice of blueberry pie?  Lol
lol....  I think she's been watching Letterkenny!
+12 votes

Congratulations Canada's Project Team !! 

I especially enjoyed working on the Hudson Bay Company and North West Company Voyageurs. I look forward to continuing to recognize and add Canadian military profiles in 2021.    

by Stanley Baraboo G2G Astronaut (1.4m points)
Thanks and thank you for your contributions!
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Congratulations! This is a lovely newsletter. Looking forward to your Trans-Canada Trail too!
by Isabelle Martin G2G6 Pilot (560k points)
Thanks, Isabelle!
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It's timely that you've posted this, since I posted a new thread called "Can you help connect a Canadian colonial governor, commissioner, lieutenant governor, premier, or prime minister?" a few days ago. People have been very active in connecting profiles, so I'm scrambling to add more. I thought that all of the colonial and provincial governors, lieutenant governors, and premiers (and prime ministers, in the case of the Dominion of Newfoundland) had been added and linked with succession boxes, but as I'm scrambling to add more to that page as people connect them, I'm starting to run into missing people (mostly lieutenant governors). I'm also learning just how many profiles have no primary sources and no biographies. 

But the good news is that, at the rate people are going, all the profiles should be connected within a few weeks.

by Greg Slade G2G6 Pilot (669k points)
+10 votes

while connecting Canadian politicians, came across this profile that the Canada project might want to take over.  found his Canada Biography interesting https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Deane-1196

by S Stevenson G2G6 Pilot (245k points)
Hi S,

In the newsletter there is a link to our nomination form. You can use it to nominate this person for project management.
+11 votes
I do my tiny little part in sourcing Canadian profiles. Doing that, I already learned a lot about Canadian history and geography. When I started that was way out of my comfort zone but now I know for which profiles and time frame I might easily find sources. Thanks for doing the Newsletter.

Edit: Changed the word "biography" in the first version to "geography".
by Jelena Eckstädt G2G Astronaut (1.4m points)
edited by Jelena Eckstädt
Thank you for all your help with Canadian profiles, Jelena!
I second Jelena's reply. I would have remained completely ignorant about the beginnings of Nova Scotia (Annapolis and Kings county) and New Brunswick (St. James River settlements) if it weren't for the need to source my Canadian ancestors. Without Wikitree's standards I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between an Acadian or a UEL or a planter for that matter and I feel so much the richer for knowing what I now understand even though it still may be only the tip of the iceberg. Thanks Canada project.

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