Lately I’ve been thinking about my great-grandmother Caroline’s cookbook “Oglivie’s Book for a Cook,” printed in Montreal in 1905. It is worn and fragile, the back cover is missing, and grease stains mark nearly every page. Some young child scribbled in it in pencil, and recipes clipped from newspapers can be found scattered throughout theContinueContinue reading “A Life Lived in Recipes”
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In Her Words: Memories of Living in Whitebread, Ontario
Whitebread Station ca 1920. William Peers and daughters Margaret (left), Beatrice, and Mildred. My maternal grandmother, Margaret Peers, was raised in the small community of Whitebread, Ontario located along the Chenail Ecarté (The Snye) – a tributary of the St. Clair River known that forms part of the western boundary between Chatham-Kent and the WalpoleContinueContinue reading “In Her Words: Memories of Living in Whitebread, Ontario”
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