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Article: A family memoir: the men of #2 company, Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry, 1915.(Gazette: Documents & Archives)
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- October 1, 2006
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I was lucky. My parents lived in the same house for forty-five years and they were always saving things: old daguerreotypes, tintypes, letters, notes, diaries, books, magazines, albums, gowns, and uniforms. History was alive in our attic. As kids my two sisters, brother and I played with period pieces: a brass medal of Admiral Dewey's victory at Manila Bay (1898), and my great-grandmother's Victorian gowns.
Writing history papers in school was easy for a kid with original letters from the trenches and casualty clearing stations of World War I. Great Uncle William Gavin Johnston and his sister Annie Eliza Johnston (Argue) of Morden, Manitoba spent four years at the front, ...
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Article: Travels Terrestrial and Cosmic.(Brazil Through the Eyes of William James: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings, 1865-1866)(Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda)(The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment )(Book review)
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......the here and now. Brazil Through the Eyes of William James: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings, 1865--1866 (translated by John M. Monteiro...visit he approvingly stated: No telegrams could come here, no letters, no news. This was an uplifting thought. Overall, the passages...
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