Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys
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− | number of old friends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and [?] a fellow on the platform at Folkestone that I went to school with. There is another fellow from my home town here in camp, but he happens to be a staff -officer so I have got to wait a favorable opportunity. | + | number of old friends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and [?] a fellow on the platform at Folkestone that I went to school with. There is another fellow from my home town here in camp, but he happens to be a staff-officer so I have got to wait a favorable opportunity. |
This is a great farming country over here, but it's the same old story; lots of room to make up, & a long chapter of neglected opportunities. In Kent farming machinery has not yet been discovered. Man-power seems to be the principal asset, though I must say they have a few of the sort of articles that our grandfathers used to vary the monotony. | This is a great farming country over here, but it's the same old story; lots of room to make up, & a long chapter of neglected opportunities. In Kent farming machinery has not yet been discovered. Man-power seems to be the principal asset, though I must say they have a few of the sort of articles that our grandfathers used to vary the monotony. | ||
Well, I would like to tell you about the military side | Well, I would like to tell you about the military side | ||
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+ | BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 3 / TREGILLUS,FREDERICK JAMES, 1862-1962. Barkerville; miner. Correspondence from Freeman Killam, 1915-1917 |
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number of old friends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and [?] a fellow on the platform at Folkestone that I went to school with. There is another fellow from my home town here in camp, but he happens to be a staff-officer so I have got to wait a favorable opportunity. This is a great farming country over here, but it's the same old story; lots of room to make up, & a long chapter of neglected opportunities. In Kent farming machinery has not yet been discovered. Man-power seems to be the principal asset, though I must say they have a few of the sort of articles that our grandfathers used to vary the monotony. Well, I would like to tell you about the military side
BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 3 / TREGILLUS,FREDERICK JAMES, 1862-1962. Barkerville; miner. Correspondence from Freeman Killam, 1915-1917