A family memoir: the men of #2 company, Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry, 1915.(Gazette: Documents & Archives)

From: Manitoba History | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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