This week’s excerpt from “As the Story is Told” (1986) is the beginning of a series on historic homes in Morpeth, Ontario. Note, this content is 30 years old and does not reflect the current state of the village. Homes One of the first tasks of the pioneer was to provide shelter for himself…
December 3, 1939 23 McKenzie Ave. Sun. Dec. 3, 1939 Dear Folks, — No doubt you will be surprised to hear from me again. I am having difficulty in finding anything for this class project for Mr. McEachran. My subject is furniture, etc., such as was used in pioneer days in Ontario. I also may…
In the past years there were regulations regarding the size of the fish caught. When the fish were dipped from the pound net they were sorted before being brought to shore. Any undersized fish would be set free to continue their growth. It was possible to have perhaps a thousand pounds in the net but…
23 McKenzie Ave., December 1, 1939 Dear Folks, It hardly seems possible that December is here again. I have made two or three mistakes about that before to-day, so this time I got it right. I was glad to get your nice letter to-day – it was a pretty good account of the happenings of…
The varieties of fish in Lake Erie have varied from time to time but there has always seemed to be one particular kind that the fishermen depended on for their money. They referred to it as their “pay fish”. Back in the earlier days the fishermen prospered on the great herring run. In the early…
These Valentine’s were given to my grandfather and his sister in the 1920s in Ontario. Cute? Maybe the moving eyes were bordering on creepy? They sure put a lot of effort into the cards back then.
A couple interesting things here – the reference to “Bunny”: Bunny was my grandmother’s nickname – at the time she was my grandpa’s girlfriend. Also found the recipe written on the envelope interesting. I wonder how much dressing one put on this salad? 23 McKenzie Ave., Wed. Nov. 29, 1939. On back of envelope: 2…
