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ashore there.

After we leave here it may be 12 or 14 days before we get to England so it is possible that this may reach you before our arrival in the Old Country.

From where we lie we can see nothing of the city of Halifax. It lies behind a hill – the country here is of the low-wooded-hill type – but from what I could see as we slid in past the war ships it is a good-looking peaceful place, thought not nearly so pretty as our dear old Victoria.

I am afraid it wouldn't do to write of the shipping in the harbour, but I must say it is most interesting – ships of all types and all nations. This is a most cosmopolitan port nowadays, and most busy, being second only to New York, I believe, in America.

BC Archives, 93-6553 Box 4 DREWRY FAMILY Selected Correspondence, 1917 – 1919.