Beginnings

How We Got Here - The Stories of Atlantic Canada

English - November 25, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
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Previous Episode: The Not So Sinister Family Secret Of My Granny Anderson

Next Episode: A Purpose For Everything

In our first episode, we will be a conversation with Brother and Sister Genealogis Team Lynda Villanova Gleason and Larry Villanova from Connecticut as they discuss their mother’s life in an Orphanage in Halifax in the 1930’s - Forty’s and how her memories of Halifax and her love for the Church that ran the Orphanage she was placed in 1939. In 2019 this lead them to visit Nova Scotia in search of How They Got Here and how they discovered how her Love for that Church was a connection built almost 2 centuries earlier in her family history.

Places Mentioned in This Episode

Nova Scotia

Halifax: St. Pauls Church, St Paul’s Home for Girls Tower Rd. Public Gardens

Lunenburg: St. John’s Anglican Church

Mill Village

Port Medway

Surnames Mentioned in This Episode

Rafuse, Moreau, Miller, Boutilier, Villanova, Gleason

People of Historical Significance Mentioned in This Episode

Rev. Jean-Baptiste Moreau

George VI

Queen Elizabeth “Queen Mother”