Dedicated to the many people who had a large part in my life                                        
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                                      Dear Ancestor,

Your tombstone stands among the rest                                     neglected and alone. 
                             The name and date have worn off                                the weathered marble stone. 
                             It reaches out to all who care.                                It`s now too late to mourn 
                             You did not know that I`d exist                               You died .... and I was born 
                             Yet each of us are cells of you                                in flesh, in blood, in bone. 
                           Our hearts contract and beat a pulse                                    entirely not our own. 
                           Dear ancestor, the place you filled                                   some hundred years ago 
                           spreads out among the ones you left                                who would have loved you so. 
                            I wonder how you lived and loved.                                    I wonder if you knew 
                           that someday I would find this place                                   and come and visit you.

Author - Unknown

                                            

By Town or Bust is a Great Site if you are looking in to Family of the Ottawa 
Valley Bytown or Bust.

Automated Canadian 
1901 Census.

The Ontario 
Vital Statistics 
Project.