Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Jack at Wilcox Lake on Holiday


Baby in a suitcase at Wilcox Lake cottage owned by the Mackenzies (neighbours).  1928?


Walker Vacation at farm on Lake Simcoe


Sarah, Jim, Leonard Nicholls and Bob Walker. Leonard Nicholls had a shiny blue trike that he did not share with other children.  Summer 1927? - was she pregnant? 

Monday, February 26, 2007

Kennedy Glasgow c1917?


The child is Bessie McAdam, daughter of Martha Kennedy and Bob McAdam.  She died suddenly at age 16 in Toronto, collapsing after coming home from the movies.  She and her mother (d.1962) are buried in Mount Pleasant cemetery.  The inscription on Bessie's gravestone says "One day we'll understand".

Walkers Glasgow c1895


Jack at Yellowknife c1955


Halimar c1958


Sunday, February 18, 2007

The Atholl Connection

Family lore has it that Murray was an illegimate child of the xth Duke of Atholl.