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To help Canada celebrate its 115th Labour Day, we dug deep into our collection of
Historical Canadian Censuses to find some of the oddest jobs in Canadian History.
What we found may surprise you.
– Metro, Sept 29
– CBC.ca Sept 4 (Labour Day)
– TorontoSun.com Sept 3 (Labour Day)
Ancestry.ca helped life reporter Tanya Enberg begin her own family tree and discover her ancestral roots. Having only ever known her family to be Irish, Tanya was surprised to discover a line dating back to Scotland in the 1700s. Read about her discoveries here.
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