Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXVI
Son Floyd left British Columbia and married a gal from Chisholm, while daughter Elnora left for her old job in Fort Frances, Ontario. She later came back, stayed a short while, then she went out to Regina, Saskatchewan, where she went to work in the Regina Grey Nuns Hospital. It rained so much in the winter the things that Violet and Orrah had brought out to B.C. with them started to deteriorate. Orrah Jr. rescued the steel traps because they were sitting out in the open on
1916 Minnesota State High School Board Examinations
New to our collection are these 1916 Minnesota State High School Board Examinations, administered to 8th Graders as part of their spring finals. These recent accessions to our collections, come to us from a generous donor out of New York. Members of her family were settlers of Littlefork, MN, with her aunt having taught grade school children there. The development of the High School Board was established in 1878, shortly after the legislature recognized the need for High Scho
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXXV
Violet thought it sure was crowded in the two room cabin that was right above the tidal flats. There was a sawmill near them so the boys could get all the rough lumber and slabs they could use, Orrah and the boys built a lean-to off the side of the little house and was big enough to allow for a stove, three double beds and some furniture. There was a house near their little home, an elderly gentleman who was in a nursing home owned it, the four oldest boys got permission to
