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Pure Laine... or, perhaps, not so pure? Over the course of the past 400 years, people from France, England, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany, in addition to several Indigenous North American nations; among them, Catholics, Puritans, Calvinists and pagans - all have contributed to the bloodline of two families that came together in Canada in the 20th Century. In 1926, Theodore Seguin from Thurso, Quebec married Alphonsine Seguin, his 5th-cousin from Essex County, Ontario. Their ancestry, believed by generations to be entirely undiluted French and Roman Catholic - the myth of Pure Laine - can now be seen as a colourful tapestry, inter-woven with many different ethnic, cultural and religious threads.In our culture, our family name is usually passed down to us from our father. As a result, most genealogies trace only the paternal branches of a family tree - our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers - while making only peripheral mention of the maternal line - our mothers, grandmothers and great-grand-mothers - the women without whom none of us would be here. In this comprehensive family genealogy, Marc Seguin has included both paternal and maternal bloodlines of Theodore Seguin and Alphonsine Seguin in a series of lineage charts stretching back 400 years to reveal a broader, more complex and more complete family tree.The lineage charts are supplemented by a rich narrative with numerous illustrations, highlighting the stories of many Seguin ancestors and uncovering the reality behind the French-Canadian myth of Pure Laine.Marc Philip Seguin, is an independent historian who grew up inthe Detroit River region and now lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

Farewell To Canada presents a unique, visual perspective on the end of an era of British Imperial history. Between 1867 and 1871, the soldier/artist William Ogle Carlile of Britain''s Royal Regiment of Artillery graphically documented a time when a new country, the Dominion of Canada, faced the threat of invasion from the United States of America. At the same time, the British Army was about to leave the defence of the young nation in the hands of the Canadian Militia and a newly raised permanent force.  The paintings, drawings and cartoon sketches of Lieutenant Carlile were published in news magazines of the day and in his own book of recollections of his years in Canada. For the first time, more than thirty of Carlile''s works have been collected together here and serve as witness to a time during which Canada took the first tentative steps toward complete military self-sufficiency on her long path toward greater independence from Great Britain and the British Empire.Maps, illustrations, source notes, appendices, bibliography, index.

At great risk to their own lives and the lives of their ten children, Bernard and Dora Prinzen sheltered seven downed Allied airmen in German-occupied Holland during the last tumultuous months of World War II.  Fifty years later, Doris Mayberry, the wife of one of the airmen, 2nd Lieutenant Owen L. Mayberry, USAAF, wrote down the story of the courageous Prinzen family and of the seven airmen and produced the initial manuscript of Seven On A Mat.Under dire circumstances after the end of the war, the Prinzens emigrated from their war-ravaged country to the tranquil farming community of Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. They brought with them their remarkable wartime experience of working closely with the Dutch Underground to keep the Allied airmen out of the hands of the Nazis.In 2020, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of Victory-in-Europe Day (VE Day), the youngest of the Prinzen children, Benny, who at age four had been an active participant in the wartime events described in Seven On A Mat, passed along a copy of Doris Mayberry''s manuscript to the Prince Edward Historical Society.To commemorate the VE Day anniversary, the Prince Edward Historical Society is proud to present this remarkable account of faith, luck and courage during World War II.