Petawawa Ont. May 30/17 Dear Mother: Just a line now while I am resting after dinner. Our menu was soup, boiled meat, boiled potatoes with jackets on, gravy, tea and bread & butter. Bert is ling down asleep just a foot away. We arrived here in camp 8:30 am. May 29 and spent that day getting things up from the tracks which are about 3/4 of a mile away. This morning we had physical jerks before breakfast of mush, bacon, coffee, bread and butter.

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 13 ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Vernon Ellison, 1917-1920.