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What He Chose to Record
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Antigonish Review
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January 1, 2008
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- Bartlett, Brian
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Copyright informationCopyright St. Francis Xavier University Winter 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Though the rhymes and many of the juxtapositions are mine, all the words and phrases below appear in diaries kept by my great-grandfather C.B. (Crawford Bunting) Lawrence (1861-1935), begun in 1889 and continued until 1918. A resident of Bayside, New Brunswick, descended from several generations of New England and New Brunswick ancestors, he was the husband of a first-generation Canadian with Irish parents, Minnie MacFarlane, who died of liver cancer in 1905; the father of five daughters and two sons; president of a local Agricultural Society from 1910 to 1935, and, for shorter periods of time, County Councillor and ...
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