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Article: Hard times for the Hardimans.(Gazette)(Theophilus Hardiman)
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- Manitoba History
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- September 22, 2004
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A simple obituary notice in the Winnipeg Daily Times June 5, 1882, along with the Registers of Burials and Deceased of Winnipeg's St. John's Anglican Cathedral cemetery, give quiet evidence of a painful and tragic family tale. In April 1882 Theophilus and Mary Theresa Hardiman left Bournemouth, England, for Canada and the booming, blustery new city of Winnipeg. Rosella (noted also as Prisella) age 7, Alice Maude age 4 and Horace age 2 accompanied their parents. Within a few short days of the family's arrival little Rosella and her brother perished from typhoid fever, the dreaded disease known locally as Red River fever. Red River fever, which was to reach near-epidemic ...