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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4 Coy C.M.G.D. Sunday Nov 4th [1917]
Dearest Mother & Father.
No news or letters came in the Canadian mail to-day - I guess I can stand it though after getting three letters from Elizabeth in one week -
There was a Canadian Rugby match here on Sat and it was great. I met three T.C.S fellows who were playing. I would like to get into it myself but I can't get off in the afternoon to practice until 4:45 and then we have supper, it is dark now at 5:30 so it can't be done. Last night Chick Carew and I went to an entertainment in one of the soldiers huts and it was the best that I have seen for ages. the artists were all old stage people and they certainly were good -
BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 10 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Price Ellison, 1917.