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A Walk on the Dark Side
When Hugh McKervill was in training to become a minister in the United Church of Canada, he was sent in the summer of 1955 as a student minister to the people of the Smoky Burn-Battle Heights-Papikwan area (at the edge … Continue reading
Two Things I Won’t Tell You About Canada
Sam’s father was killed in India so he spent his boyhood with his uncle on a farm in Galloway. (This is an area in southern Scotland where our great-great-great grandfather David Vance was born.) As a young man Sam attended … Continue reading
The Snatch Team
THE SNATCH TEAM BY Linda C Butler Told by Charlie Vance I worked in the winter of 1928 hauling freight with horses to the Sherritt Gordon mine near Flin Flon. We hauled in a freight swing, which consisted of a … Continue reading
Posted in Charlie Vance
Tagged freight swings, history, horses, humor, Manitoba, memoir
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Laundry Day in the Log Cabin
Monday Was Wash Day According to the Laws of Feminine Paradigms, Monday was Wash day long before the prairies filled up with settlers. Homestead wives brought this tradition from their far-off motherlands and planted it into the cultural soil of … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged children, family, home, homesteading, humor, memoir, prairies, Saskatchewan, work
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Gopher Tail Sales
Gopher Tail Sales By Linda C Butler Told by Charlie Vance I winter fished the winter of 1931 up the Hudson Bay Railway line at Mile 185. We caught and cleaned fish, then froze and packed them for shipment to … Continue reading
Posted in Charlie Vance
Tagged Depression years, economy, history, homesteading, humor, Manitoba, memoir, money, work
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Christmas Socks
Christmas Socks By Linda C Butler (I am putting this on Facebook as Walter Johnson was a well-known prospector in the Snow Lake area in the 1960s.) It is my tradition to give my nieces and nephews colorful socks at Christmas. This … Continue reading
Grandpa Forsyth’s farm
If I recall the facts correctly, I was just a toddler when Grandpa Forsyth died. I have no memories of him at all. Neither do I have many memories of Grandpa Forsyth’s farm from this stage of my life; my … Continue reading
Posted in Myrtle Forsyth, Vance Family
Tagged children, economy, family, farming, history, home, homesteading, memoir, play
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Yes, Children, Math Does Matter
Our Grandma, Emily Turner, was a school teacher before she married Grandpa Allen Vance. She was a strict disciplinarian, too, from the memories my Mom F related to me. Mom talked of getting her ears ‘boxed’ by Grandma – using … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Jackman, Turner Family
Tagged children, education, family, humor, memoir, pets, work
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Growing Up Apart
An Off and On Family For the first several years of my life I probably went back and forth between the Vances and the Forsyths and was very close with my brother Jim. We ran around the farm yard together, … Continue reading
Posted in Allen Vance Sr, Vance Family
Tagged amusements, children, family, home, kids, memoir, money, parenting, work
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