Tag: Loosemore
Page 86: Myself and Family, 1915, 1916
Here I am in 1915, in dressing gown, in front of our house at Sturgeon Point. And then, in 1916 our full little family.
Page 83: Children, Sturgeon Point 1916
More photographs of Mary Frances and Herbert, playing at Sturgeon Point during my last visit – fall 1916
Page 82: Family, Sturgeon Point 1916
We are not in a city or town, more like a cluster of cottages by a lake. But the milkman still comes, and the children still ask to ride in his rig.
The Loosemores: Frances, Herbert and Mary, 1916. Frank came from a large family with many brothers and sisters, and they still look over their brother’s family..
Page 81: Family, Sturgeon Point 1916
More portraits of my family, and a photograph of our new house.
If you look closely, you can see that rascal Herbert standing on the railing; and my tent to the right. The Sanatorium regimen requires us to live in fresh air. I also do not want to infect the children with my illness.
Page 80: Mary Frances, 1916
This is my niece Mary Frances Loosemore, who was born last summer – August, 1915, with my nephew Herbert Loosemore. Her mother had moved to the Okanagan with her husband, but after his death has moved back with family.
The children are happily innocent: Herbert minding his baby sister, and Mary gazing out at the world with those big blue eyes.
Do they know?
Page 79: Family, Sturgeon Point 1915
I have described my family on previous pages, but it’s been a while.
My grandmother, Mary Etta Clark (nee Every) was married to Dr P.H. Clark of Lindsay, Ontario. He was a well respected physician, but sadly died in 1892.
My mother, also Mary Etta, married Thomas Adam- my father – who passed away in 1896.
My sisters: Petron is a nurse and is unmarried; Frances married Frank Loosemore, a banker turned fruit farmer in the Okanagan thanks to a land grant he earned by serving in the Boer War. But Frank died at the end of 1914, leaving Frances with a young son and newly pregnant as well. In August 1915 she welcomed a baby daughter, Mary Frances.
The women in my family, with young Herbert and baby Mary Frances, live together on Mill Street in Lindsay. I visit them on occasion, but am usually confined to the Sanatorium apart from summers, where I can pitch my tent and live in fresh air at Sturgeon Point.
Page 78: Sturgeon Point 1915
A late summer reunion for a ragtag gang of rascals and their pal, Bingo.
September 17, 1915: Canada is at war against Germany; my sister’s husband has died, she has a two-week old baby and a 5-year old son. But she also has a sister, mother and grandmother. They all live together on Mill Street, in Lindsay, and travel by steamship up to the house at Sturgeon Point for the summer and, here, mid-September.
This our old house, which was moved to a new site…
Page 41: One sail, many boats
Here is 1914: my little nephew Herbert, he’s 4 years old; with Fred Every’s children: Beulah (7 years old) and John (6 years old) I can’t be at home, at our cottage at Sturgeon Point, without looking back to where I have been. A regatta … Continue reading Page 41: One sail, many boats