Dear Jack

My Great-Grandparents, like many people in their day, collected postcards that were sent to them. This collection has been passed down and I am lucky enough to be working with it. This blog outlines the history of two young Scots who moved to Canada and lived through one of the most dramatic decades in modern history - 1910-1920. Tales of romance, cross-Atlantic travel, a gold rush, war and death are all found here.

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Scotland Posts

Post 01 - Banff
Post 02 - Bridge of Ury
Post 03 - Keith Hall, Inverurie
Post 04 - Keith Hall again
Post 05 - Duchess of Hamilton
Post 06 - Camp Life
Post 07 - Burns Walk Dumfries
Post 08 - Dunoon from the Pier
Post 09 - St. Andrew's Castle
Post 10 - Madeira
Post 11 - Tain
Post 12 - Tain's Tower
Post 13 - The Seaforth Highlanders
Post 14 - Troup House Gamrie
Post 15 - Ivy Leaves - a love note?
Post 16 - Logie Elphinstone
Post 17 - Ellon Bridge
Post 18 - MacLean Memorial Fountain
Post 19 - S.S. Cassandra
Post 20 - Crathes Castle and Feugh Lodge
Post 21 - International Football Match
Post 22 - Feugh Lodge and John Poynter Miller
Post 23 - The Scott Memorial
Post 24 - Burning of the Clavie
Post 25 - Jack's Family History
Post 27 - Seaforth Cottage, Garmouth
Post 28 - Sarah Mystery Solved!
Post 29 - Woodpark Asylum, Boyndie
Post 30 - Randolph's Leap
Post 31 - Nellie's Fateful Trip to Canada
Post 32 - Gold!! - The River Nairn, Atlin, and Discovery, B.C.
Post 35 - A Sweet Little Tidbit Derived from the 1891 Census
Post 43 - Dick! Found him! Then lost him ...
Post 46 - The Awesome Power of the Internet
Post 50 - More on Dick Grant
Post 51 - Whisky and Banffs
Post 52 - King's College, Rycroft Hospital and the Battle for Hill 70

Canada Posts

It All Started with Dick
Post 26 - The Hollow Tree in Stanley Park
Post 32 - Gold!! - The River Nairn, Atlin, and Discovery, B.C.
Post 33 - Sicamous Hotel, Sicamous, BC ... and WAR!
Post 34 - Discovery, BC part 2
Post 36 - Port Alberni and Beacon Hill Park
Post 37 - Moose Jaw Saskatchewan
Post 38 - More on British Columbia's Last Gold Rush
Post 39 - Summit Lake and Mount Wapta
Post 40 - 47th Battalion C.E.F., the Vernon Army Camp, and Dick
Post 41 - Spuzzum
Post 42 - White's Creek Bridge and Fraser Canyon
Post 44 - The Rest From the Gold Mines
Post 47 - Dick's Journey Across Canada Continued
Post 48 - Christmas Joy for a Little Girl
Post 49 - Happy Birthday Belle ... and Lumber

Blog Archive

▼ 2019 (6)
- ▼ October (1)
  - #53 - Connections Around Oregon
- ► April (3)
- ► March (2)

► 2018 (1)
- ► June (1)

► 2016 (20)
- ► April (6)
- ► March (3)
- ► February (1)
- ► January (10)

► 2015 (29)
- ► December (2)
- ► October (5)
- ► August (1)
- ► July (17)
- ► June (4)

Qualifications

M.A. in Historical Archaeology from SFU in 1995

Current Work

I am currently working from my home office on a book related to this research. However, I am open to paid work :)

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