Margaret Dougherty 🇨🇦
@emdeeinto
Cousin collector/#genealogy/#familyhistory…Royals, history, crime/historical fiction, 🇨🇦politics, figure skating
Visiting Québec City family. Cap Rouge is where Jacques Cartier landed in 1534. He navigated his ship into Rivière Cap Rouge from the St Lawrence for protection & shelter. Near here is Quai 1635, a great restaurant where we had dinner last night.
Visiting Québec City family for a few days. The Ste-Foy farmers’ market is packed with all sorts of seasonal freshness: vegetables, fruit, cheeses, bakery items and much more. Bought some blueberry and maple syrup sausages that caught my eye. When in Québec…
One of my favourite summer 2026 spots in Toronto keeps delivering.
July is the start of hollyhocks season in my part of the world. These are still babies.
Out early this morning, before this week’s truly oppressive heat returns. But now I have a fan!
You can’t tell from this pic, but this new to King St E spot has the very best quiet, shady, enclosed rear patio.
Great Toronto Star story about Canada’s Bill C-3 impact on archives requests. “People are very upfront about why they’re interested in getting citizenship...my favourite term was ‘the post-capitalist fascist hellscape.” #genealogy #familyhistory
Statistics Canada reminds people in 🇨🇦 that today is Census Day as well as Star Wars Day. You’ll get your access code by mail and enter that at the provided questionnaire link to complete your census. May the 4th be with you.
A great, important, read from @acoyne.bsky.social in today’s theglobeandmail.com
Hapsburg family names trustee in Canada to steward Florentine Diamond and other fabled gems
I’m not a baseball follower, but I did get on this bandwagon here in my hometown, and yes, it was magical. #GoBlueJays
All of this. Twice a year. Stop turning the clocks. There are no savings in daylight savings time.