CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS:
Do YOU 
have old family pictures where only you or your parents know who's in them? Please 
share them with us all, and preserve them for future generations. Just e-mail me, 
forward a scanned photo in any format and I will add it to the appropriate place in 
the tree. Don't be too concerned if the picture is damaged, as some retouching can 
be done. So, scan those pix and send them on before the information is lost forever!


This family tree project was started by Harold Ford Doner, & carried on by 
Harry Doner. The amount of work these two men did on all of our behalves is 
staggering, and we are all in their debt. In an era predating computers and the 
internet, they rummaged in Archives, dug in Land Offices, and travelled this 
monstrous gorgeous country simply looking in the phone book for the right surnames 
before giving them a call.

Harry Doner arrived on my parents' doorstep when I was about 12 years old and had 
driven from Ontario to B.C. in an old sedan, with his dog and a back seat full of 
files. A hardcover book was published (The Doners in Canada - Printing House Ltd. 
Thornhill Ont. 1974) and in Harry and Harold's honour, I continue their tradition by 
bringing their work into the digital age. Since then I have been updating and keeping 
it as complete as possible, but need your help.


As of the end of Feb. 2007, there were 14,910 direct descendants (& their
spouses) of the first two Doners to settle in Markham 200 years ago. So, I
implore you to PLEASE contact me whenever a birth, marriage, death, or special event 
happens in your family's life, so that it can be preserved for future generations. 
Photos, old or new, are particularly welcome. What is normal & boring to us today may 
well be cool & fascinating to our descendants. (Look! It's an actual gasoline-fired 
automobile!)

Due to genealogy etiquette, information on living persons is not 
posted on the internet, however you may contact me directly for a family password, 
about any specific questions you might have, or how you may be related to someone 
else in the tree.

Keepers of the Tree to date:
Elder John Doner (1821-1906)
Harold Ford Doner (1918-    )
Harry Doner (1895-1982)
Perry Doner (1958-    )