Thank you to everyone for their best wishes for my mother and father. My mother is recuperating well after open heart surgery and my father is looking better after a blood transfusion. Even though I haven’t been blogging too much lately, people are still interested in my book. Even a nurse in the Heart Institute wanted a signed copy as she had attended a one-room schoolhouse.
Yesterday, I met some lovely people at Waterside Retirement Home in Carleton Place. Shirley MacMillan Gervais of Renfrew went to a S.S. No. 1 Osanbrook in Dickinson’s Landing along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Unfortunately Dickinson’s Landing was one of the ‘lost villages’ after they flooded the land with the installation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959. The land was expropriated and entire communities resettled. Some 6,500 people were moved to new homes and some 550 dwellings are transported to waiting foundations in the new Ontario towns of Long Sault, Ingleside and Iroquois. Shirley’s family was relocated to Ingleside, just east of Upper Canada Village.
Yesterday, I met some lovely people at Waterside Retirement Home in Carleton Place. Shirley MacMillan Gervais of Renfrew went to a S.S. No. 1 Osanbrook in Dickinson’s Landing along the banks of the St. Lawrence River. Unfortunately Dickinson’s Landing was one of the ‘lost villages’ after they flooded the land with the installation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959. The land was expropriated and entire communities resettled. Some 6,500 people were moved to new homes and some 550 dwellings are transported to waiting foundations in the new Ontario towns of Long Sault, Ingleside and Iroquois. Shirley’s family was relocated to Ingleside, just east of Upper Canada Village.
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