THE CULROSS QUILT
A CANADIAN WORLD WAR I QUILT
Version 6.01
06 March 2021
David March © 2019
REFERENCES
The following websites have proved invaluable sources of information to help in identifying the people who put their names on the quilt.
All Our Yesterdays
A History of Culross Township 1854-1984 - compiled by Culross Historical Society - ISBN 0-9691634. Deals with the pioneers’ journeys, labours, joys and sorrows as they toiled to create their “kingdom of happiness” and thus make all their yesterdays worthwhile. Unfortunately this really useful book is out of print and not available online
History of Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild. There are several other references available through a Google search.
History of Canada at War.
Newspaper archive including some Ontario papers.
Data on immigrants and the ships they came on - 1865-1922.
List of municipalities in Ontario
Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia.
Partial listing of Canadians who served their country in wartime.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Register of record details of Commonwealth war dead.
Family history research site, used to document the individuals named on the quilt. Free membership allows you to view the many Culross family trees.
Family History records as collected by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Canadian census records, generally only for the years 1901, 1906 and 1911.
British Columbia Search Our Collection - Royal BC Museum
Births, marriages, deaths.
Births, marriages, deaths.
Ontario Genealogy Records Online
Access point for several genealogical web-sites relating to Ontario.
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
Births, marriages, deaths
Historical Vital Statistics - Nova Scotia
Births, marriages, deaths.
Saskatchewan Vital Statistics Genealogy Search
Births, marriages, deaths.
Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
World wide index for cemetery records.
Searchable listing of over 18,000 known Canadian cemeteries.
Interments at Culross-Teeswater cemetery.
Births, marriages, deaths - England & Wales only.
Canadian Red Cross Quilt Research Group
UK based group collecting and documenting WWII Canadian Red Cross Quilts.
Useful English Women's Names and Nicknames
Listing of names and nicknames.