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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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BC Archives MS-0249

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Jan 7th/18 Victoria B.C.


Dear Mother:

I arrived in Victoria Monday at 3.30 in the afternoon. When I arrived in Sicamous Friday at 7.30 I had to wait till 4.00 Saturday morning for the train. Then I got as far as North Bend, and found a snow slide holding up four more trains bound West, and I do'nt know how many on the other side of the slide bound East. We were stuck here from 10 am till 1.30 am Sunday morning. Then the train moved to Yale 25 miles further down the line, and found a washout which held us till 10 pm Sunday. We arrived in Vancouver Monday at 6 am. I could not get the gripp because it was not off the train yet, so I took the check out to Ellen's. The fellows went wild over the honey I brought. I met Mrs Doc Henderson and one of the children

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 14 / ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. / Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Herbert Ellison, 1917-1918.

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