Letters written on board the S.S. Sarmation |
| M-7988-1 | Letter to mother. - April 12, 1883. - Regarding life on the ship and steerage
passengers berths.  View now (choose pages 1-4). |
| M-7988-2 | Letter to mother. - April 22, 1883. - Regarding icebergs and whales near
Halifax, hotel in Montreal, and looking for work with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). View now (choose pages 5-8). |
Letters written from Lindsay, Ontario |
| M-7988-3 | Letter to parents. - May 16, 1883. - Regarding farm work, Canadian sunsets,
and servant's attitudes. View now (choose pages 9-10). |
| M-7988-4 | Letter to sister Elf. - May 20, 1883. - Regarding lawn tennis, dances and
shooting birds. View now (choose pages 11-12). |
| M-7988-5 | Letter to parents. - May 30, 1883. - Regarding breaking new land, fence
building, and problems with servants. View now (choose pages 13-14). |
| M-7988-6 | Letter to mother. - June 13, 1883. - Regarding a barn raising, mosquitoes,
and Guelph Agricultural College. View now (choose pages 15-16). |
| M-7988-7 | Letter to sister Elf. - June 18, 1883. - Regarding Canadian manners, and
tending horses. View now (choose pages 17-18). |
| M-7988-8 | Letter to mother. - June 27, 1883. - Regarding visit to Fenelon Falls and
the weather. View now (choose pages 19-22). |
| M-7988-9 | Letter to mother. - July 1883 (Sunday). - Regarding two barn raisings and
mowing. View now (choose pages 23-26). |
| M-7988-10 | Letter to mother. - July 18, 1883. - Regarding visit to Penetanquishene. View now (choose pages 27-30). |
Letters written from Toronto, Ontario |
| M-7988-11 | Letter to mother. - August 24, 1883. - Regarding broken mirror, visit to
Newmarket, and harvesting. View now (choose pages 31-35). |
| M-7988-12 | Letter to parents. - August 30, 1883. - Regarding search for job in law
office, and craze for swimming the Niagara whirlpool rapids. View now (choose pages 36-37). |
| M-7988-13 | Letter to parents. - September 14, 1883. - Regarding job as insurance
agent for London Guarantee and Accident Company, Canadian manners, and the editor of the Toronto Advertiser. View now (choose pages 38-41). |
| M-7988-14 | Letter to parents. - September 28, 1883. - Regarding selling insurance,
and accident of Mr. Gavey, a Canadian Pacific Railway employee. View now (choose pages 42-43). |
| M-7988-15 | Letter to parents. - October 5, 1883. - Regarding continuing to look for
office work, an Englishman returning home because the farm work was too hard, and Gavey's "cocktail" cure. View now (choose pages 44-49). |
| M-7988-16 | Letter to parents. - October 27, 1883. - Regarding Crown Lands Department
offer to send him west with a surveyor in the spring, his attempts to join the North-West Mounted Police, and the "Indian
summer". View now (choose pages 50-53). |
Letters written from Ilfracombe, Ontario (Muskoka) |
| M-7988-17 | Letter to parents. - November 12, 1883. - Regarding muddy trip from
Bracebridge to Ilfracombe, Bell's shanty, and a deer-hunting expedition. View now (choose pages 54-56). |
| M-7988-18 | Letter to parents. - November 19, 1883. - Regarding trapping beavers, first
encounter with the "Noble Savage" [Indians], inside a wigwam, sheep farming, and canoeing. View now (choose pages 57-62). |
| M-7988-19 | Letter to mother. - January 7, 1884. - Regarding minus thirty-eight degree
weather, showshoes and a haircut. View now (choose pages 63-69). |
| M-7988-20 | Letter to mother. - January 14, 1884. - Regarding sleigh ride and church
service. View now (choose pages 65-66). |
| M-7988-21 | Letter to mother. - February 4, 1884. - Regarding ride in a "four-in-hand"
to a social, vulgar songs, and need for thick stockings and serge suit. View now (choose pages 67-69). |
Letters written from Parry Sound, Ontario |
| M-7988-22 | Part of letter. - [ca. March 1884]. - Regarding American cockfighting
(written just prior to trip to Parry Sound). View now (choose page 70). |
| M-7988-23 | Letter to mother. - March 30, 1884. - Regarding trip to Parry Sound. View now (choose pages 71-72). |
Letters written from Ilfracombe, Ontario |
| M-7988-24 | Letter to mother. - April 13, 1884. - Regarding sore ankle and falling
through ice into Buck Lake. View now (choose pages 73-74). |
| M-7988-25 | Letter to mother. - April 21, 1884. - Regarding ice on lake melting,
lizard's whistling, recipe for "Old Maid's Cake", and bird hunting. View now (choose pages 75-76). |
| M-7988-26 | Letter to sister Elf. - April 28, 1884. - Criss-cross letter regarding
horseback riding, a dog attacking a porcupine, and Indian quillworking. View now (choose pages 77-78). |
Letter written from Lake Superior, Ontario |
| M-7988-27 | Letter to mother. - May 12-13, 1884. - Regarding first stage of trip to the
North West, trip on the S.S. Athabaska, the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, and Mr. Foster, the surveyor. View now (choose pages 79-81). |
Letters written from Moose Jaw and the North-West Territories |
| M-7988-28 | Letter to parents. - Queen's birthday [May 24, 1884]. - Regarding salaray
as surveyor's assistant, Winnipeg being crowded with young men looking for work, his opinion of French Canadians and
Indians, buffalo skulls, and the price of beer and haircuts. View now (choose pages 82-84). |
| M-7988-29 | Letter to parents, from Fisher's Crossing, Saskatchewan River. - June 8,
1884. - Regarding sloughs, the trip from Moose Jaw, crossing the Saskatchewan River, the townships to be surveyed at
Duck lake, and duck hunting. View now (choose pages 85-88). |
| M-7988-30 | Letter to parents, from 42-7-W3, Valley of the Saskatchewan. - June 28,
1884. - Regarding surveying, the food, building a raft and crossing the river, snow, heating the tent and berries. View now (choose pages 89-92). |
| M-7988-31 | Letter to parents from near Carlton, Saskatchewan. - July 24, 1884. -
Regarding surveying, township mounds, hunting, a Cree chief who talked about being unfairly treated by the Canadian
government, battles with the Blackfoot, and disappearance of the buffalo. View now (choose pages 93-96). |
| M-7988-32 | Letter to mother from 42-6-W3, near Carlton, Saskatchewan. - September 11,
1884. - Regarding horse thieves, Hudson's Bay Company post at Carlton, and attempts to get credit to buy pork. View now (choose pages 97-98). |
| M-7988-33 | Letter to mother from 43-6-W3, near Carlton, Saskatchewan. - September 21,
1884. - Regarding surveying a township, a lost horse, Mr. Harman (Inspector of Surveys), and a deserted campsite. View now (choose pages 99-100). |
Letters written from Calgary, Alberta and district |
| M-7988-34 | Letter to mother. - November 2, 1884. - Regarding trip back to Moose Jaw,
problems with the Canadian Pacific Railway baggageman, description of Calgary, the stagecoach to Fort Macleod, and the
price of a haircut. View now (choose pages 101-104). |
| M-7988-35 | Letter to mother from near Calgary, Alberta. - November 22, 1884. -
Regarding Government Farm, Chinooks, threshing at John Lineham's, Mr. E.J. Winterbottom, and Mr. Ogilvie (a surveyor). View now (choose pages 105-106). |
| M-7988-36 | Letter to mother. - December 12, 1884. - Regarding Mr. E.J. Winterbottom,
Mr. Owen, schemes to teach Englishmen to farm, and John Lineham's method of looking for missing horses. View now (choose pages 107-108). |
| M-7988-37 | Letter to mother. - December 25, 1884. - Regarding arrival of
Winterbottom's son and daughter, Christmas plans, and opinion of hired hand. View now (choose pages 109-110). |
| M-7988-38 | Letter to mother. - January 1, 1885. - Regarding plans to build his own
log shanty, Christmas day, Mr. Winterbottom freezing his cheeks, Harold Winterbottom, and the extremely cold weather. View now (choose pages 111-112). |
| M-7988-39 | Letter to mother from Midnapore, Fish Creek (near Calgary). - February 19,
1885. - Regarding move from Winterbottom's shack to house, roof catching fire, and arrangements to have clothing washed. View now (choose pages 113-114). |
| M-7988-40 | Letter to mother from High River, Alberta. - March 16, 1885. - Regarding
Mount Head Ranche (Levine's), F.W. Godsal, and plan to join Skrine and Douglas for a cattle drive. View now (choose pages 115-116). |
| M-7988-41 | Letter to mother from Fish Creek. - April 29, 1885. - Regarding searching
for strayed horses, snow blindness, pulling range cattle out of a slough, and the economic advantages of the Riel
Rebellion. View now (choose pages 117-120). |
| M-7988-42 | Letter to mother from Fish Creek. - May 6, 1885. - Regarding spring
blizzard, Sheep Creek Ranch (Quorn Ranch), John Ware (black rancher), John J. Barter, F.S. Stimson, North West Cattle
Company, preparations for a major cattle round-up, French Canadian patois, problems with the washer woman, and the Riel
Rebellion. View now (choose pages 121-126). |
| M-7988-43 | Letter to mother from Fort Macleod. - May 25, 1885. - Regarding cattle
round-up and John Ware. View now (choose page 127). |
| M-7988-44 | Letter to mother from Willow Creek (38 miles northwest of Fort Macleod). -
June 8, 1885. - Regarding cattle round-up, a cowboy falling off his horse, and a rattlesnake encounter. View now (choose pages 128-129). |
| M-7988-45 | Letter to father from Tongue Creek. - July 1, 1885. - Regarding Dominion
Day, a hail storm, George Lane, and the Little Bow Cattle Company. View now (choose pages 130-131). |
| M-7988-46 | Letter to mother from Fish Creek. - September 1, 1885. - Regarding cattle
round-up, George Lane, Oswald A. Critchley, and the Riel Rebellion. View now (choose pages 132-133). |
| M-7988-47 | Letter to mother from Fish Creek. - October 6, 1885. - Regarding cattle
round-up at Stimson's ranch, driving horses from Skrine's, ankle injury caused by horse stepping into badger's hole, John
Ware, and the purchase of cows. View now (choose pages 134-137). |
| M-7988-48 | Letter from E.J. Winterbottom to Ted Hills from St. George's Ranch, Fish
Creek. - November 13, 1885. - Regarding raising funds for the Fish Creek church, house renovations, badger hole accidents,
the herd of cows, and Arthur Winterbottom's colt. View now (choose pages 138-139). |
