Ellison Family Letters
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Dear Mrs Allison | Dear Mrs Allison | ||
You will doubtless be surprised to hear from me & also at the manner in which I addressed this envelope but I did not know your husband's initials and thought some one else might get this letter. Mother, Father and I have just arrived back from Winnipeg where we have been to see the B. C. 68th Batt boys away as my only brother has enlisted in that Batt. & of course you can know how we felt at parting with him but proud of him as well Mother has taken it very hard indeed | You will doubtless be surprised to hear from me & also at the manner in which I addressed this envelope but I did not know your husband's initials and thought some one else might get this letter. Mother, Father and I have just arrived back from Winnipeg where we have been to see the B. C. 68th Batt boys away as my only brother has enlisted in that Batt. & of course you can know how we felt at parting with him but proud of him as well Mother has taken it very hard indeed | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 7 ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. | ||
+ | Mrs. Price Ellison, selected correspondence inward, 1917. |
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from Mrs Percy McKechnie Portage La Prairie R.R. No 1 Manitoba Box 19, Dec. 15/17 Dear Mrs Allison You will doubtless be surprised to hear from me & also at the manner in which I addressed this envelope but I did not know your husband's initials and thought some one else might get this letter. Mother, Father and I have just arrived back from Winnipeg where we have been to see the B. C. 68th Batt boys away as my only brother has enlisted in that Batt. & of course you can know how we felt at parting with him but proud of him as well Mother has taken it very hard indeed
BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 7 ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. Mrs. Price Ellison, selected correspondence inward, 1917.