The CFHA is now on Facebook! We’ve set up a page you can follow to see new blog posts, articles, events, and news shared by the community. You can find us at https://www.facebook.com/Canadian-Friends-Historical-Association-100910118316978/ Every blog post we publish here will automatically appear there. A special thanks to Sydney Harker for volunteering Read more
We’ve received a researcher question to be put to the expertise of the CFHA and its membership: Hello, I just discovered that my great, great grandfather, Enos Lundy III, was a Quaker, whose father, Enos Lundy II and grandfather, Enos Lundy I, immigrated to Canada from Pennsylvaia, USA, in 1805. Read more
NPR’s Planet Money published this charming video about the history of charging fair prices to consumers: For most of human history, you had to haggle over prices before you could buy something. The Quakers were among the first people to commit to fixed prices — and they did it Read more
We repost information from the following webpage: Dear CQHA friends, This is not the message we had hoped to share with you at this point in our planning for the CQHA 2020 conference. Our program committee had worked through proposals and acceptances and was justifiably proud of the program Read more
The Adolphustown-Fredericksburgh Heritage Society has been around since 1989, chronicling the history of one of Ontario’s oldest United Empire Loyalist settler communities. Adolphustown is of particular interest to Quaker historians as the site of the first Preparative Meeting in Upper (or lower) Canada, started in 1798. Membership in the AFHS Read more
The Nantucket Historical Association is asking for volunteer help to transcribe handwritten documents. Their collection currently available for transcribing includes ships’ logs and particularly eleven logs written by women, likely captains’ wives. The Nantucket area is of particular interest to Canadian Quaker enthusiasts as their whaling and fishing fleets had Read more
We recently received the following genealogy question via our contact form: A Quaker – Aaron Tool – came from Bucks County, PA, to York County, Ontario. I’ve seen note of him in Yonge St minutes but if there is anything more you can tell me, it would be greatly appreciated. Read more
Recently the American National Archives and Records Administration posted this interesting tidbit on their blog: Some Americans in Canada: The Record Book of Joseph Edwards, Niagara, Upper Canada, April 1812-January 1813 If you don’t follow NARA, you may have missed this interesting document – a record book of Joseph Edwards, Read more
We’ve updated our transcriptions page with a new upload: Pelham Monthly Meeting’s Women’s book from 1828-1860. You can also see the PDF here: https://cfha.info/staging/PelhamO-5-1.pdf Thanks as always to our wonderful volunteer transcribers! Our team is always happy to accept new volunteers. If you find yourself with free time while sitting Read more
We are pleased to be advised that Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College will make images of men’s and women’s minute books from Muncy Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania. Muncy Meeting (formerly Catawissa Monthly Meeting) was the source meeting of many Quaker migrants who relocated in Upper Canada at the beginning Read more