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Question #70472 (2010-03-02)

  Good afternoon I am researching our family tree and I
looking for 2 obituraries/death notices. Edna Bradley
(Robinson) Bannerman died May 20, 1989 in Calgary, Alberta.
her husband John Mactavish Bannerman died March 7, 1966 in
Calgary, Alberta. Please inform me of any cost for your
service. Sincerley (name deleted)

Answer(s):

Hello and thank you for your question about obtaining copies of obituaries from the Calgary newspapers.

One way to obtain the obituaries is to request an interlibrary loan of the microfilm of the Calgary newspapers through your local library. The two newspapers in Calgary in the 1980s were the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun. In the 1960s the papers were the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Albertan.

Another way for you to obtain the obituaries is to contact our Research Plus service. For a fee they can find and send copies of obituaries. Their site is:

http://blog.calgarypubliclibrary.com/blogs/business_community/pages/researchplus.aspx

You can contact them for an estimate of the fee for such a service.

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