Letter from Elinor Clark (1898)

Submitted by D. Clark McIntosh, August, 2019 A letter to William Clark, the son of John Clark and Eleanor Billing who lived in Riviere aux Pins. Valcartier, PQ Oct 21, 1898 My Dear William I was so glad to hear again from you last week, for I was beginning to fear I...

Some Related Goodfellow Settlers in Canada

by Marjorie Goodfellow My great, great grandfather Robert Goodfellow emigrated from Scotland about 1820. As yet, no record of embarkation or debarkation has been found. Why did he come? It is assumed that he landed in Quebec, but that is not proven. With whom did he...

Susannah McKinley versus Susannah McKinley

by Audrey Henderson, 2012 It appears there are 2 females of the same name - Susannah McKinley – who lived in the area of Valcartier, at the same time, in the eighteen hundreds. One Susannah McKinley married William Henderson, I will refer to as her as Susannah-1. The...

Henderson Family History

by Audrey, Charles and Faye Henderson, April 2012 John Henderson (1791-1864) and Elizabeth Brown (1797-1873) Their Children and Families Preface The Henderson's family history was initially undertaken by my cousin Charles Henderson. Charlie conducted his research...

Delia Brown’s Autograph Book

Delia was the wife of Thomas Knox.  This has been kindly provided by her great-great granddaughter, Melanie Goodfellow. The book was was started by Delia when she was 20 years old in 1889 and added to until 1894. Mary A Billing, Valcartier Jan. 15 1889Grant Ireland,...

Father John O’Grady 1803-1872

This biography was researched and written by Dennis McLane of Boise, Idaho.  He maintains a website entitled, Frampton Irish.  With his kind permission I have reprinted it here. "The theme of this blog is Catholic priest, the Reverend John O’Grady. I was inspired to...

Curtis McBain & Caroline Ward

by Nelson Ireland and Evelyn Ireland Jewel, grandchildren of Curtis McBain; written April 6, 1988 CURTIS McBAIN 1846-1905 and his wife CAROLINE WARD lived in the Settlement of Valcartier, today known as Valcartier Village. Their residence stood on the site of what...

Owen Murphy

by William Cochrane Owen Murphy, Ex-Mayor of Quebec City, was born in Stoneham, Province of Quebec December 9th, 1829. His father was a member of the highly esteemed family of Murphys, of Ballainoulart House, County Wexford , Ireland, and was a man of peculiarly high...

The Madden Family of Valcartier

by Bernard Monaghan, 1985; edited by Patricia Balkcom, April, 2019 Family of Anthony Madden and Eleanor Calback Anthony Madden and his wife Eleanor Calback must have been married in Ireland and arrived in Valcartier in the early 1800s. They settled on a lot on the...

Burial of Marie Ursule Hubert Neilson

At the same time I also obtained the following excerpt from the Register of the Church of the parish.  On this 23rd day of June 1866, we the undersigned priest, have interred in the cemetery of this parish, the body of Marie-Ursule Hubert, wife of the late Hon....

Jimmy Poole (Powell)

by Jack Griffin Jimmy Poole (Powell) was a native of Lismore,  County Waterford. and went to Newfoundland from Ireland, later coming to Quebec and eventually to the Valcartier/St. Catherine district. His seems to have been a very adventuresome spirit for not long...

Death of Jack Murphy and the Phantom Train

Johnny Donaldson tells me that the famous phantom train, which traveled the tracks of the old Gosford and Quebec-Lake St. John railroads in the early days began its ghostly journeying after Jack Murphy of Pine River was killed by a train near Scott's Corner - near...