First of all, mia culpa for being absent the past many months. During the summer in particular I was focused on family health issues (all are fine now) and just didn’t have the bandwidth to research and write. Now that I’m back, I am focusing my energies on my Canadian ancestors once again, in partContinueContinue reading “Changing Course : Canadian History”
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A Life Lived in Recipes
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”
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”
