Thank you Alan, for the advice to remove blog dates. It worked easily on a number of different themes, although my canadianwelcome.ca site now has a bit too much crowding between the category of the post and the post title. I must have deleted a little more than I should have
I do still have my archives dated and am not sure how to remove them. In fact, one of my themes has a specific coding page called archives.
Should I just leave well enough alone and not touch anything more?