An unexpectedly rich source of sources for Vancouver, Canada

Question

I have been letting a bunch of entries from the Changing Vancouver blog pile up in my RSS reader, waiting to add them to the relevant WikiTree profiles, and finally got around to adding a couple of them today.

One entry was for the building at 391 Powell Street, which was developed by Emma Deponai Tuthill, the mother-in-law of former British Columbia Lieutenant Governor John William Fordham Johnson. That entry points to Emma's entry on a different blog, WestEnd Vancouver, which I hadn't encountered before. Emma's entry is just bulging with sources, not just for Emma, but for her parents, grandparents, husband, daughter, son-in-law, and so on. My guess is that whoever runs that blog is a genealogist. I haven't even begun to check and add all the sources. There are just so many of them.

Answer 1

That’s great! Have you thought of doing a OPS for 391 Powell Street? Or asking the blogger join and do one?

Comments

Oh, good heavens no. I have got way too many irons in the fire as it is, including juggling 31 One Name Studies (most of them not official), and maintaining hordes of lists of unconnected profiles, connection challenges and whatnot. I do need to sleep sometime! (Every second Tuesday night between 2:00 am and 3:00 am.)

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Lol! Yes, sleep is a must even though it interrupts the rest of life.

Answer 2

Thankyou, Greg, for posting all the memories of Vancouver, the center of my 'Westcoast' activities......my great uncle, at one time, lived almost across from Emma's house on Barclay Street.

Answer 3

would recommend saving blog as a image or pdf so if blog removed from internet, the source is still available.

one of the sources for George Vancouver and his connection to his Dutch family, the page is no longer available at Vancouver archives. it was a great source and explained how they determined the connection but no longer available.

Comments

Yeah, every once in a while I come across a broken link to a source like that, so I replace it with a link to an archived version at archive.org. At least those don't go away.