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Welcome to Liffiton Family History at www.liffiton.net. This site explores history and genealogy related to the Liffiton surname, which originated in England around 1758.

Muriel Liffiton Biography Published

Cathy Converse, British Columbian historian and writer, recently completed a book on Muriel Liffiton, who wrote The Curve of Time under her married name, M. Wylie Blanchet. The hardcover biography, published by TouchWood Editions, went to press the first week of March 2008, and is now available through your local bookseller under the title, Following the Curve of Time: The Legendary M. Wylie Blanchet.

Muriel's friends knew her as "Capi," the captain of a 25 foot boat, Caprice, which she and her children used to explore the coastal waters of British Columbia. The Converse biography is a wonderful combination of Capi's life story with modern day accounts of the seacoast locations Capi visited. You can read the Liffiton Family History article on Muriel in the section titled "Capi," or download it from the Archives section. But the new book has the full story.

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Online databases are constantly updated. New finds for Liffiton include naturalization records for Richard Earnest Liffiton, who crossed into the US on 12 July, 1903 riding the Grand Trunk Railway from Sarnia, Ontario. He settled in Long Beach, California where he worked as a carpenter.
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Notman Collection Contains Liffiton Photos

DateSunday, May 17, 2009 at 5:33PM

The McCord Museum of Canadian History in Montreal recently located seventeen images of Liffitons taken by the Notman Photographic Studios between 1870 and 1913. Charles Albert Liffiton (1849-1927) or members of his family are the predominant subjects. A photograph of William Thomas Liffiton (1852-1916) and a second of his hockey pro son, Charlie Liffiton, were also discovered. Both were taken on the same day in 1899.

The McCord Museum houses the Notman Archives, a collection of over 1,250,000 photographs from the Notman Studios. Permission to display some of the photographs at liffiton.net has not yet been granted, but today you can view online two Liffiton images taken in 1910. To see Miss Violet Liffiton and her sister Miss Muriel (Capi), go to the McCord Museum web site at www.mccord-museum.qc.ca. Type in "Liffiton" in the search field at the top right of the page.

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