Up a Tree

Let me just say that dealing with genealogy can be frustrating. Case in point, where in the world is my maternal grandfather from? I have documents that say he was born in Ontario. I remember seeing a document that specifically placed his birth in Stratford, Ontario, but I cannot find that information in the documents I have scanned. My mother often said the same thing, and at one point she and Dad took a vacation to the town so she could see it.  In other documents that I have, Gramp's place of birth is listed as Chicago. A census document listing him reports that his father was English but doesn't give the father's name. Canada was not independent from England when he was born. The country was formally established in 1867, four years before my grandfather's birth, creating four provinces from what had been three colonies, Canada, Newfoundland and New Brunswick. Canada was split in two to form the provinces of Ontario and Quebec.  Had great-grandfather lived in one of