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WILFRED FORSYTH -Wartime experience in the Netherlands 1945

I have just posted the scans of a Diary that my grandfather Donald Duncan Cameron (1878-1941) wrote during his voyage to Canada in March 1905. This little diary has just recently been discovered so it has been exciting to hear this voice from the past. The link is:

Donald Duncan Cameron (1878-1941) – Diary of his Journey to Canada by Sea, March 1905

I have just added an article from a magazine published in 1947 which describes the early career of Bert Hart when, in 1909, he opened the first grocery store in Woodnorth, Manitoba. It includes a number of photos showing the construction of many early buildings in Woodnorth. The link is:

Bert Hart – Pioneer Grocer at Woodnorth 1909-1915

Today I posted a fourth batch of postcards from my grandmother, Isabella (née Brownlees) Cameron’s postcard collection. The link is:

Post Cards – Isabella Brownlees Collection, Page 4 – SCOTLAND

Today I have added a third batch of postcards from my grandmother’s collection. It features over two dozen cards from Berwick-on-Tweed and almost twenty from other places in England, plus a few from an assortment of other locales – Isle of Man, Ireland, Wales, France and the U.S.A. The postmarks date from 1904 through 1930. The link is:

Post Cards-Isabella Brownlees collection- page 3

These photos document the families of Della’s parents, Albert Charles Shoemaker (1878-1964) and Caroline Eleanor Mooney (1878-1962), and their siblings. The link is:

Della (née Shoemaker) Cameron (1912-2000)’s Family Photo Album

Recently posted this fascinating album of the Nash and Hutchison families of England and Canada from the 1890s. The link is:

A Tribute to Richard “Dick” Hugh Nash (1935-2020) – the Nash Family Album 1893

Thanks to David Melrose of England I have been able to post photographs from an album created in 1871 by his great-grandmother Mary (m.s. ALLAN) Melrose (1850-1936). Mary was a sister of my great-grandmother Margaret (ALLAN) Brownlees (1853-1897).

The link is  https://pamelaforsyth.com/mary-allan-melrose-1850-1936s-photo-album/

Recently, I posted a new selection of post cards from my Grandmother, ISABELLA BROWNLEES’ collection. These cards have been sorted by the name of various places along both sides of the Scotland/England border, near Grandma’s home area, the villages of Cornhill-on-Tweed, Wark-on-Tweed, Coldstream and Kelso. The link is:

Post Cards – Isabella Brownlees Collection – page 2 – by place

Today I have started a new page where I will be posting my grandmother Isabella Brownlees (1874-1958)’s post card collection. Most of the images are from Scotland and the English counties of Durham and Northumberland but there are a few from further afield – Paris, Ireland, Buffalo, New York, etc.  There are about 270 cards in total and I will be posting them gradually as I get time to scan and transcribe them. Most of the cards are from 1903 -1909 but she continued to add a few to the collection until the 1930s. Some of the cards were mailed to her but others were passed on by family and friends who knew she was collecting post cards. The image on the front of the card was the important thing for her post card album but I have been fascinated by the glimpse into her life and the activities of her family that  comes from the notes on the back of the cards. The link is:

Post Cards – Isabella Brownlees collection – Northumberland & Scotland