Ellison Family Letters
Letters from Price F., Vernon, Herbert and Albert Ellison of Vernon, B.C., to their mother Mrs. Price Ellison, and their sisters Elizabeth and Ellen. Learn more.
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I went to bed early on Tuesday night in hope of getting a good sleep, but about 10 o'clock the fire alarm sounded and everybody had to turn out. I was wakened and scrambled out half dressed. Some of the fellows just put on their great coats, without getting dressed. We were doubled over to the hospital, which is only a block away, where the chemical shack was going up in smoke. It was only a garage so we stood and watched it burn. The noise of the trumpets
BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 13 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Vernon Ellison, 1917-1920.