Recording Your Life Story or Family Stories
Recording Your Life Story or Family Stories
Recording Your Life
and Family Stories
Canada 150 Edition
Harry van Bommel
Resources Supporting
Family & Community Legacies Inc.
Toronto, 2007
Dedicated to all those who came before us,
To those who walk this journey with us,
And to those who will follow.
Personally dedicated to Janet Klees, and our children
Bram and Joanna,
whose life stories I am blessed to share.
May we learn from the successes and failures of our ancestors,
as we try to lead the way for generations to come.
Copyright Harry van Bommel, 1994, 2000, 2007
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Harry van Bommel.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Van Bommel, Harry
Canada 150: recording your life story or family history
Includes bibliographical references
ISBN 978-1-55307-036-8
Canada 150 is a 20-year project to encourage Canadians to record their life and family stories as a gift to Canada’s on its 150th birthday in 2017. For more information on Canada 150, visit the following Web site www.legacies.ca
or contact:
Resources Supporting Family and Community Legacies Inc.
11 Miniot Circle
Toronto, Ontario
M1K 2K1
CANADA
Telephone: 416.264.4665
e-mail: harry@legacies.ca
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