Survival in a Northern Wilderness--A Mother's Story: Part XIV
According to Violet, when she was getting ready for school lessons. “all hell broke loose” and she lost the battle to teach her children. Orrah told her that she was to go out on the trap line with him and leave the older kids to look after the younger children. Wesley was learning to read and write, so she sent lessons out with him with words to spell after he had done his chores, which were cutting firewood and feeding the dogs. Elnora learned to read and write just watc
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XIII
In 1938 the Canadian Government started paying each family money for each child that they had, Orrah would not let Violet have any. Violet opined that it wasn’t a lot, about two dollars and a half a month for infants and two to five dollars for children up to eighteen but she later ruminated that it would have been real good to have helped clothe her children. In 1939, Orrah and family made the rare trip to Fort Frances. They didn’t get to see it all, but they attended the
