For sixty years my grandfather William John Irvine documented his life as a young Irish immigrant and homesteader to Canada.\u00a0 My Uncle Bob spent many years transcribing perhaps a third of these diaries with the plan to share these someday.\u00a0\u00a0 He has now passed the torch to me to carry on.<\/p>\n
I’ve asked the online genealogy community how best to do this and got lots of wonderful feedback.\u00a0 The consensus was to create a separate blog or place for the diaries.\u00a0 They liked the idea of hearing his comments of homesteading on the prairies; his comments around major world events and they want to hear more stories such as the one I wrote about The Mail Order Bride<\/a>.<\/p>\n I know I can’t possibly give you 60 years of diary entries but I will do my best to bring Grandpa Irvine’s Diaries to life, in order to share with you, my family and with our online genealogy friends, this remarkable journal.<\/p>\n Introducing…. Grandpa Irvine’s Diaries.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For sixty years my grandfather William John Irvine documented his life as a young Irish immigrant and homesteader to Canada.\u00a0 My Uncle Bob spent many years transcribing perhaps a third of these diaries with the plan to share these someday.\u00a0\u00a0 He has now passed the torch to me to carry on. I’ve asked the online … Continue reading “William John Irvine – 60 Years of Diaries”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[5,6,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/luxegen.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}