Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXVII
Violet had a proverbial laundry list of things to do before winter set in but Orrah kept pestering her to go out on the trap line with...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XXV
Violet was badly hurt when daughter Elnora was chopping clods of frozen sawdust with an unusually sharp grub hoe to cover their summer...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XVIII
While repairing the roof of the houseboat, Violet fell through, just missing the cast iron box stove. She described the fall as terrible...
Survival in a Northern Wilderness: A Mother's Story--Part XVII
In the waning days of summer in 1944 Orrah and Violet towed a boom of logs to the Border Mill, leaving eleven year old Floyd and nine...
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 X
Violet thought the Kettle River place situated on the shores of a big bay with long yellow beaches a beautiful location. The house...
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 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...
