Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XI
Orrah had the fish-nets all laid out over flat rocks drying in the sun when the Canadian Mounted Police paid his family a visit. Orrah...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part VIII
It was late August in 1936 that the great forest fires started sweeping the country. It had been very hot and tinder dry, there would be...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part VII
Orrah’s idea to live trap fox and then harvest them when the fur was prime was entrepreneurial, but it caused more work for Violet as she...
Survival in the Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story- Part IV
Violet and son Wesley came down with typhoid fever, twenty-one year old Violet was pregnant with her third child. Violet didn’t know...
Survival in the Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part III
Orrah Jr. was so diminutive at birth that he fit in the palm of his father’s hand, hands so tiny they were translucent. Orrah and Violet...
George Loman: A Man of Principle--Part 2
George and Mary Loman were pioneers but very progressive for their means and how they operated in those early days without funds was...
George Loman: A Man of Principle
56654 became their zip code and they indeed earned it. The folks who talked about George used reverential tones, held in high esteem by...
