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Evelyn

 

B.
6 June 1909, Montreal
M.
  1. 29 July 1933, ``AGWANIS'', Magog to J. S. Saunders,
    B.
    13 Nov. 1905, Buffalo, N.Y.
    D.
    13 Apr. 1978, Saturna, B.C.

  2. 25 Aug. 1981, Three Rivers, Que., to D. F. Macorquodale,
    B.
    7 Mar. 1913, Winnipeg, Man.
    D.
    15 Feb. 1994, Montreal, Que.

``Is this the same Lake that's attached to our shore?'' became a family saying. It was Evelyn's question on seeing the Lake from the Montreal train as it drew into the station at Magog. She was five or six years' old.

Daddy wrote on the back of this picture ``Julian Smith's garden: summer of 1920'' but Evelyn remembers dressing as ``a grown up'' to go to one of Mrs Howard Murray's garden parties. She was 11 years' old.

The summer before that (1919) she went to Val Morin to be with Granny Peverley at ``LE ROCHE FENDU'' for a week or two. Evelyn and I had a doll that we called ``Princess Juliana'' for whom we and a lot of grownups (like the Misses Martin and ``Aunt'' Ann Lyman and Mother) made extravagant clothes and whom Evelyn took with her ``so I wouldn't be lonely''. Granny had an organ and Evelyn remembers playing her one tune on it until Granny made her stop! gif

And the summer I was at Quanset Evelyn went on the Saguenay Cruise with Granny. There was a ship-board romance but as Evelyn put it ``he was French and a Roman Catholic so they decided nothing could come of it''. So that was that.

When she was much older (in the summer of 1924 she thiks, but I think in 1928 when I was at Quanset) [I am right] Evelyn went with granny by boat to Newfoundland. What she remembers about that trip was meeting a young man from Quebec City, Jean Morin ``who was R.C. and French so we couldn't have anything serious to do with one another!''

However, she didn't have too long to wait before she became thoroughly involved with Jack Saunders. She met him the winter we ``came out'' at Jane Yuile's[?] Deb. ball held at the Montreal Hunt Club. Jane's brother, Charlie, was a D.U. and so was Jack. Evelyn and I had gone to the Ball without escorts (a really scarey bit. I can't think how we braved it, but wasn't it good we did?!) and Jack was stag. She married him on July 29, 1933 at ``AGWANIS''. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. George H. Donald of St Andrew's and St. Paul's.

P.S. Miss Sanford played the wedding march on the Howard organ.

Daddy ``gave'' Evelyn the Farm House for a wedding present and she and Jack spent the rest of the year there (before going to a job in Rapide Blanc) and summers afterwards remodelling the house inside and out. Unfortunately there was no deed legalizing the transfer of property so that when the Farm was sold in 1939 Evelyn's little house had to be included and she lost it.

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Prof. T.H. MERRETT
Fri Oct 17 12:03:53 EDT 1997