My wife and I are close to retirement, and would like to retire to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia within the next couple years.
My maternal grandfather was born in Canada (Quebec), does this qualify me for the Canadian Heritage path to citizenship?
My maternal grandmother was born in the poorhouse in Dundee, Scotland, and when her mother died of tuberculosis in the poorhouse, my grandmother was sent to one of the Quarrier's homes at Bridge of Weir, near Glasgow, Scotland. Quarriers was one of the first institutions to send children to Canada where they
would be taken in by foster families and raised and educated as one of the family.
Canada needed a young workforce.
On May 30th, 1889, at six years old, my grandmother was put aboard the S. S. Siberian, and left Scotland for Canada with a group of about 84 orphan girls listed on the ships manifest as “Mr. Quarrier’s Children.” They first went to Brockville, Ontario, Canada to be housed in one of Miss MacPherson’s “distributing homes," where they waited to be accepted by prospective foster parents. My grandmother was sent to live with the Moore family in Trout River, Canada, near the border with the US.
She married my grandfather in the Chapel at Salaberry-de-Valleyfield on the St. Lawrence, near the Beauharnois Canal that bypasses the rapids and falls at Montreal. I have all pertinent birth and marriage documents, certified by the Parish of Valleyfield, Quebec.
Does anyone know anything more about the "Canadian Heritage" path to Canadian citizenship?
Any information greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Barton Brown
Clinton, CT USA
My maternal grandfather was born in Canada (Quebec), does this qualify me for the Canadian Heritage path to citizenship?
My maternal grandmother was born in the poorhouse in Dundee, Scotland, and when her mother died of tuberculosis in the poorhouse, my grandmother was sent to one of the Quarrier's homes at Bridge of Weir, near Glasgow, Scotland. Quarriers was one of the first institutions to send children to Canada where they
would be taken in by foster families and raised and educated as one of the family.
Canada needed a young workforce.
On May 30th, 1889, at six years old, my grandmother was put aboard the S. S. Siberian, and left Scotland for Canada with a group of about 84 orphan girls listed on the ships manifest as “Mr. Quarrier’s Children.” They first went to Brockville, Ontario, Canada to be housed in one of Miss MacPherson’s “distributing homes," where they waited to be accepted by prospective foster parents. My grandmother was sent to live with the Moore family in Trout River, Canada, near the border with the US.
She married my grandfather in the Chapel at Salaberry-de-Valleyfield on the St. Lawrence, near the Beauharnois Canal that bypasses the rapids and falls at Montreal. I have all pertinent birth and marriage documents, certified by the Parish of Valleyfield, Quebec.
Does anyone know anything more about the "Canadian Heritage" path to Canadian citizenship?
Any information greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Barton Brown
Clinton, CT USA