Yearly Archives: 2017

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School Year Books wanted

School Yearbooks – the Essex County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (collection located in the Family History Reading room, Windsor Public Library) is looking for donations of Windsor & Essex County school yearbooks for indexing, scanning, and adding to the EssexOGS Collection. These books are valuable to […]

New Books on the Members Only page

We recently added new books to the Members Only page.  The Refugee by Benjamin Drew is a collection of “narratives of fugitive slaves in Canada”.  Included are stories from former slaves who settled in Chatham, Buxton, Dresden, Dawn, Windsor, Sandwich, Amherstburg, Colchester and Gosfield. For those with ancestors who […]

New additions to the library

We have two new additions to our library shelves.  Come in for a visit! An extract from A Fluid Frontier: Slavery. Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland.  Edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker. pg 27 ” At the riverfront, vanes of […]