MY DEAREST MOTHER - 1902 Letters from Canada 1902 Ella Brewin My Dearest Mother - 1901 Copyright © 2018 by James Holme. All Rights Reserved. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. Cover designed by Cover Designer Printed in the United States of America First Printing: Feb 2018 Name of Company ISBN-13 978-1-9769438-2-9 Many thanks to my wife, Edith, who put up with me chained to my computer all day and for her invaluable help deciphering some of my grandmother’s very unreadable hand writing. Contents My Dearest Mother - 1902..................................................................................................................................................................... 0 My grandmother, Ella Brewin ............................................................................................................................................................... 2 Ella’s family ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Andrew George Blair’s Family ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 Lecture notes from “Impressions of Canada” ..................................................................................................................................... 5 21st May 1902, S.S. Lake Simcoe............................................................................................................................................................13 31st May 1902, Windsor Hotel, Montreal ............................................................................................................................................. 15 4th June 1902, Ottawa ........................................................................................................................................................................... 17 8th June 1902, Ottawa ........................................................................................................................................................................... 19 11th June 1902, Ottawa .......................................................................................................................................................................... 20 16th June 1902, Toronto ........................................................................................................................................................................ 22 18th June 1902, Toronto ........................................................................................................................................................................ 25 22nd June 1902, Ottawa ......................................................................................................................................................................... 28 25th June 1902, Ottawa ..........................................................................................................................................................................31 29th June 1902, Ottawa ......................................................................................................................................................................... 33 3rd July 1902, Car 109, Intercolonial Railway ...................................................................................................................................... 35 06th July 1902, Crouslea ....................................................................................................................................................................... 39 10th July 1902, Rail and boat through Eastern Canada ....................................................................................................................... 42 16th July 1902, Fredericton ................................................................................................................................................................... 47 19th July 1902, Fredericton ................................................................................................................................................................. 49 22nd July 1902, Crouslea ...................................................................................................................................................................... 53 27th July 1902, St John .......................................................................................................................................................................... 61 2nd August 1902, Rothesay ................................................................................................................................................................... 63 8th August 1902, Newport, Rhode Island ............................................................................................................................................ 65 10th August 1902, Marblehead Harbour, Mass ....................................................................................................................................68 14th August 1902, Maine ....................................................................................................................................................................... 70 20th August 1902, Halifax ..................................................................................................................................................................... 72 24th August 1902, St John ..................................................................................................................................................................... 74 26th August 1902, St John..................................................................................................................................................................... 76 27th August 1902, St John ..................................................................................................................................................................... 77 31st August 1902, St John ...................................................................................................................................................................... 78 4th September 1902, Fredericton ......................................................................................................................................................... 80 10th September 1902, Fredericton ........................................................................................................................................................ 82 17th September 1902, Frogmore ........................................................................................................................................................... 83 24th September 1902, Frogmore .......................................................................................................................................................... 84 27th September 1902, Windsor Station, Montreal............................................................................................................................... 85 30th September 1902, Sault St Marie ................................................................................................................................................... 87 03rd October 1902, Portage la Prairie ...................................................................................................................................................89 05th October 1902, Banff ...................................................................................................................................................................... 91 10th October 1902, Mission Junction Near Vancouver ........................................................................................................................ 93 16th October 1902, Mojave Desert, California ......................................................................................................................................98 19th October 1902, SouthernPacificRailway_Halleck ....................................................................................................................... 102 22nd October 1902, Denver Colorado .................................................................................................................................................. 106 31st October 1902, Ottawa ................................................................................................................................................................... 110 31st October 1902, Ottawa ................................................................................................................................................................... 112 05th November 1902, Ottawa............................................................................................................................................................... 113 09th November 1902, Ottawa .............................................................................................................................................................