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Other days around me : my life in the Rainy River District / by Ivah M. Anderson.
- Title
- Other days around me : my life in the Rainy River District / by Ivah M. Anderson.
- Author
- Anderson, Ivah M. (Ivah Mildred), 1906-
- Publication
- [Devlin, Ont. : Donaldson and Poutanen], c1992.
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- Description
- 135 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports., geneal. tables; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Chapter 1 : My early years 1906-1920 [born in Box Alder in log house, to Emo for doctor, coal-oil lamp, Uncle a Methodist Church minister in Fargo, N.D. ; milk-house ; preserves pickled in crocks, Grandfather George Strachan Sr. school teacher in Emo and Aylesworth ; father farmed, cut logs ; furniture ; Sunday shool, Women's Institute ; World War One - soldiers, rationing] ; The Bush - virgin timber, tamarac, log houses, log barn, wild plums and berries, cattle trails, skidding trails, sleighing roads, 1914 first telephones put in ; party lines ; "Pansy Books" ; drinking and temperance ; Emo Fair ; School fairs ; public speaking and reciting ; School ; teachers & teaching problems ; Fort Frances.
- Spanish Influenza 1918 ; woman doctor ; barn raising ; sickness - only home remedies ; funerals, caskets, graves ; baking - cooking - housework ; hymns, songs, poems ; uncle had store in La Vallee, Model T. Ford ; entertainments ; radio ; Bible verses ; children's books ; Christmas ; summer holidays ; small-pox ; college ; George Strachan, Sr. (Aylesworth, Box Alder) ; income from railroad ties, logs, roads, log school and church ; logging bees, quilting parties, role of teach in social life, pioneers of the district ; church work ; Dad - Methodist Church - lay preacher ; Uncle Dave's Family (Emo store, La Vallee) ; Robert Strachan - religion, politics, Devlin Post office ; homes ; A story from the past, October 1896 ; Charles Newton Strachan, 1882-1979.
- Women's work is never done - toilet pots and pais, wash stand, soap, save water, detergens, washboard clothes scrubbing ; cleaning, baking, lunch pails ; Barker memories & recollections -- Chapter 2 : My career - reciting, public speaking, plays, recitations - Christmas, Sunday school, concerts, parties, literary society, etc., poems, stories - flags, i.e. patriotic poetry and recitations ... i.e. "Table rules for little people (1858)" ; Cain Strachan ; weddings, marriage, etc. -- Chapter 3 : Remembering the farm - 1978 ; birth of children ; The Cream Seperator (first), milking, Horses ; Pigs ; Turkeys ; Farm Accidents ; Entertainment and social gatherings ; Telephones ; Phrases of the Day ; Lamps ; La Vallee River, etc. -- My life in the Thirties (Depression) - marriage, childbirth, death of newborn ; earning money ; doctor ; sickness, winter, work - wages ; family life ; diabetes, news ... ie. Lindberg baby kidnapping, Dionne quintuplets, Romance of Edward Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson ; dust bowl on the prairies ; leg amputation (cancer) and death of husband Axel ; insurance ; Mother's Allowance ; coming of World War II and radio ; daughter gets scarlet fever.
- Chapter 4 : The RainyCrest years - cook in Rainycrest Home for the Aged in Fort Frances - cooking, food, etc. - Chapter 5 : Miscellaneous musings i.e Thankfulness ; Seventy ; The Three "R"'s ; Rain ; Washing ; My Grandfather's barn ; Christmas ca. 1950 -- Chapter 6 : RainyCrest - the 2nd time around as a resident.
- "Ivah Anderson, 96, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2002. Ivah Mildred (Strachan) Anderson was born April 3, 1906 at the home of her parents, George and Elizabeth (Barker) Strachan, in Box Alder, Ont. She attended Box Alder School. She graduated from Success Business College in Winnipeg in 1923 and was employed for a time in Winnipeg for Colonel Ruttan, Manufacturer's Agent. Ivah married Axel Emil Anderson on April 6, 1929. They moved to Prairie River, Sask., where Axel was employed at a sawmill. A son, William, was born in Prairie River but lived only two days. In 1931, they returned to Box Alder, where four more children were born. After Axel's death in 1939, Ivah purchased her father's farm, ran the farm, and raised the family. In 1953, she moved to Fort Frances and began work at Rainycrest as second cook, then head cook until her retirement in 1971. Ivah was a member of the United Church, the U.C.W., and the Rebekah Lodge. She always was involved in community activities. She also enjoyed regular meetings of the Cousin's Club and the Birthday Club.
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- Genre/Form
- Biographies
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- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 096967130X :
- LCCN
- cn^95002154^
- OCLC
- 31781894
- SCSB-12237752
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library