John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XVII
John Tanner's family has decided to leave the Red River area and head to Lake Huron. They felt very good about their prospects, they had...
John Tanner: Growing Up a Captive, Part XV
The Indians had a road from Lake of the Woods to Red River which the white men never followed. John Tanner’s family had camped next to a...
John Tanner: Growing up a Captive, Part XIII
The Traders came according to their expectations and they had a good many Beaver skins, John Tanner’s family bought a bark canoe, a keg...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXIV
Always in the later part of February Violets boys and their dad would come off the trap lines to put up ice to use during the upcoming...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXII
Violet thought a sudden gust of wind must have pushed the houseboat forward, ramming it into the steam tug; resulting in the stern of the...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XIII
In 1938 the Canadian Government started paying each family money for each child that they had, Orrah would not let Violet have any. ...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part VI
Violet’s new little girl was named Elnora Margaret but because she thought it cute she was nicknamed “Tootsie”. With that nicknames...
