Category: Genealogy

Weather very cold Cullerne did not come back. Frank Marimon came up from Edmonton and took Steve up to the big Eddy to run levels and back at noon. I stayed in the car all day.

Weather little colder and Cullerne went to town with Starry to see Dunk Steve and I were in the car all day alone. I sleep all morning. In the afternoon I took a walk uptown.

We arr. at Otley at 4 oc and had to stay on the bench till 7 oc and the sec foreman came and woke us up for breakfast we left items on the spreader at 8:30 am for Edson we got to Edson at 4:30 with levels all ok

We did not work today because Cullerne did not get up in time to get the train and we had to stay in Edson all day In the after noon I went to the big Eddie with Bill & Frank, Stormer and Con. got back at 5:30 PM. Then Cullerne came and told me at…
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THUR 20 Donald MacClemson [?] was in town him and I played a little pool all day We left Jenkins at 8 oclock for Otley 31 miles we want to get the before the local went through. I snow nearly all day and we lost a lot of time when we were about 1 1/2…
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This page has the 19th at the top and part of the 20th at the bottom. So, what you’ll read here is just the 19th. I’ll put both pages on the next post and start with what’s at the bottom which is where the 20th starts. Cullerne and I left for Edmonton to do a…
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[NOTICE: Clem seems to have run the 17th and 18th together here. He crossed out the “8” and overwrote it with a “7”. The story from the previous page seems to continue here, so it seems that was his intent. BUT! Since I’m transcribing, WYSIWYG….In other words, What You See Is What You Get!] We…
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Monday, February 17, 1913 “Lest We Forget” Got up at 6:30 and had breakfast weather was fine and mild we started for Entwistle After we had started about an hour it started to snow and we push the car for a mile or two Arr. at Entwistle at 4:30 20 miles and stayed with Mr…
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[REMINDER: I try to “transcribe” the diary. That means you’ll see it the exact way Clem wrote it, misspelled words, little to no punctuation, etc. Hope you find it interesting!] Sunday, February 16, 1913 “Lest We Forget” We got up at 8 oc and all went to breakfast. I came back to the car Cullerne…
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I’ve got 7 or 8 days of the diary scanned and ready to be transcribed and uploaded. But I also want to mention that I’ve been contacted by no less than 3 “new” cousins this week. All on the ROBISON, ROBINSON, ROBERTSON line and all seem to be interested in family research. But I’m so…
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