Tag Archives: memoir

Beware the Dark Furry Beast!

Posted on November 20, 2016 by

Hello Everyone! It’s been a long time since we cousins have posted anything on this blog, so I’m wondering how many Followers we still have. But for those of you who are, and for readers who have just clicked on, … Continue reading →

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A Walk on the Dark Side

Posted on April 27, 2014 by

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 →

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Two Things I Won’t Tell You About Canada

Posted on March 11, 2014 by

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 →

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The Snatch Team

Posted on February 10, 2014 by

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 →

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Laundry Day in the Log Cabin

Posted on January 20, 2014 by

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 →

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Gopher Tail Sales

Posted on January 1, 2014 by

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 →

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Christmas Socks

Posted on December 18, 2013 by

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 →

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Grandpa Forsyth’s farm

Posted on December 17, 2013 by

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 →

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Yes, Children, Math Does Matter

Posted on November 26, 2013 by

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 →

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Growing Up Apart

Posted on November 21, 2013 by

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 →

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