by lakecountry | Mar 9, 2016 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, This Day in History, Thomson, Carol
Some months after Dorothea Scott-Coward wed Robert Allison1 she wrote to her sister, Mib (Milborough Mackay), about being a newlywed in a lonely new country. In the letter she tells of the wedding itself (on the doorstep of the church because she was marrying a...
by lakecountry | Nov 7, 2014 | Bloggers, Jim Taylor
On November 3, 1917, a young man “somewhere in France,” serving in the Canadian Army as a battery commander’s assistant, sat down to write a letter to his wife back home in New Brunswick. She was due to give birth to their first child. “I have been gazing into the...
