24 October 2009

Norman K Crowder RIP

Members of the Ottawa, and Ontario, genealogical communities are sad to learn of the passing of Norman K. Crowder on Thursday 22nd of October 2009, age 83 years.

The newspaper obituary is at www.legacy.com/can-ottawa/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=134889417

He was a member of the Ontario Genealogical Society, a founding member and member of the Hall of Fame of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa.

Norm authored several genealogical books and publications including:

British Army Pensioners Abroad: 1772-1899
Early Ontario Settlers: A Source Book
Guide to the 1851 Census of Canada West : Renfrew County
Inhabitants of Toronto, Ontario, 1850
The Loyalists and Nepean
Upper Canada naturalization registers, 1828-1850

as well as several books on his own UEL and other ancestry.

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