by lakecountry | May 9, 2014 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
In 1924 the Dominion of Canada’s Department of Health published a handbook for Canadian mothers, The Canadian Mother’s Book, that provides one with an interesting look at practices of the past. The first page of the book is a quotation from Scripture:...
by lakecountry | May 17, 2013 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
The following poem, by Meiri (Koyama) Itami, was written in 1980 to honour Eijiro Koyama. Koyama farmed in the Winfield area in the 1920s. Eijiro Koyama died on January 17, 1956. A Day with Dad on the Farm As certainly as dawn crept over the hills he was awake. No...
