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John Scoones

2005

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Date 2005
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Outline

    Family history and genealogy.
  • Alex and family are mentioned, along with Uncle George and other relatives.
    Family photos from the 1920s-1930s.
  • Alex and family members discuss photos from the past, including a baby who looks like a smoking pipe.
  • Alex and Mary are identified in a photo taken at the beach, with Alex looking similar to how he looked in a previous photo from 1922 or 1923.
  • Unknown speaker discusses baby photos with Speaker 1, mentioning their father's lack of involvement in childcare.
  • Martha's husband delivered meters for a power company, and she wore a pale dress to a parade.
    Family photos and memories.
  • In 1929, Birdie Bruce married and became Mrs. Brutus, a writer who wrote a successful novel called “Call Her Rosie”.
  • Betty and friends are in a photo, but on the wrong side of the image.
  • Speaker 1 discusses a photo of a 14-year-old girl, with Speaker 3 identifying the girl as their friend Betty and Speaker 2 mentioning the girl's love for dressing up.
    Family history and old photos.
  • Pip and Derek are discussed, with mention of their ages and relationships to the speakers.
  • Unknown speaker recounts a story about a woman who worked for a Haven and had a difficult time during the war.
  • Speaker 1 reminisces about their grandmother's boat, painted gray during WWII to avoid detection.
  • Blake and Bob honeymooned at a campsite with a sweet little teepee.
  • Speaker 1 shares stories about their grandmother Edith and her past romantic experiences.
    Family history and genealogy.
  • Jim recounts his family's moves and birthplaces, mentioning several locations and relatives.
  • Speakers reminisce about their mother's appearance and personality.
  • Speaker 1 discusses family photos, including a picture of their mother and father.
  • Unknown speaker identifies Betty and Margie in a photo, with possible identification of Mary Beth and Margaret.
  • Speaker 1 wonders if a photo of a girl with a bird on her shoulder is real or imagined.

Unknown Speaker 0:01
So this one is good Alex and family

Unknown Speaker 0:06
yes

Unknown Speaker 0:08
that's Uncle George on the far left right Uncle Paul di Diana and don't do I don't know these people in front yeah

Unknown Speaker 0:28
as purse and Diana's no oh yeah or is that still maybe that star yeah Diana would have been too young

Unknown Speaker 0:53
I miss is nuts my

Unknown Speaker 0:54
father and I really don't know about the other two I'm not sure

Unknown Speaker 1:07
and then do you think that this was an England

Unknown Speaker 1:09
that's an England yes yeah probably my will that have been taken maybe I really couldn't say yeah I would probably say Suffolk yeah viewers suffer or high pale which was in Suffolk do that was the name of the property that's all I can tell you about that okay that's

Unknown Speaker 1:49
another one so I'm calling Alex and a kid on a sale.

Unknown Speaker 1:54
Yeah, that's Mary Let's take them up Maryann point not be 1921 This little girl is married my oldest sister yeah

Unknown Speaker 2:18
so when did you move to Marian point well pop came out here in 1990 and and built the rest of the house while actually night yeah, Nighty night Dan and mom came out and they got married and Mary appeared all six of us peered short order Yeah, I think 21

Unknown Speaker 2:53
I think I'll start this one

Unknown Speaker 2:54
no, I picture possibly Yeah, yeah, probably are to say

Unknown Speaker 3:07
okay, I'm gonna go on to the next one Sure.

Unknown Speaker 3:09
Just stop me if I'm quick anyone does Alex Sam again

Unknown Speaker 3:17
same place

Unknown Speaker 3:19
same doorstep

Unknown Speaker 3:32
says anywhere again now there's another one yeah Alex schools and two kids on the porch

Unknown Speaker 3:40
well that's later

Unknown Speaker 3:48
a year later so

Unknown Speaker 3:49
me yeah doesn't look like Mary on the right but it must be not be Betty as a baby I suppose. But a bouncing baby daddy she was

Unknown Speaker 4:04
yeah and so I think so. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 4:10
So married to their yeah that was the place to sit wasn't it?

Unknown Speaker 4:21
Yeah, I've never seen these pictures before.

Unknown Speaker 4:25
Okay, this is Alex and a child on the beach. Yes. Is that Mary?

Unknown Speaker 4:32
Possibly yes, I would say so. Yeah. Could be better to though. Oh, it's lions are brothers, Lion island. So let's take a look at lions beach.

Unknown Speaker 4:52
Is lions beach now morning beach. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 4:58
And lions was the name And after your family have stayed in England, right?

Unknown Speaker 5:02
Yeah, yeah. Oh ye ons was lying Island Belle Ioan why? Because of Alana. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 5:13
so this looks like maybe around 1923 probably

Unknown Speaker 5:17
three or four maybe she's about three or four and she was born in 1920 21

Unknown Speaker 5:32
Alex schools and lion island

Unknown Speaker 5:34
that's on the beach at winds with Lion Islanders in the background. Alright.

Unknown Speaker 5:42
Little One is that that's anybody.

Unknown Speaker 5:44
I think it's funny. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 5:46
let's take the same babyface

Unknown Speaker 5:47
Yeah, the hair. Yeah

Unknown Speaker 5:53
that's amazing how much a baby can look like

Unknown Speaker 6:01
he's just smoke a pipe

Unknown Speaker 6:04
and cigarettes. Yeah

Unknown Speaker 6:11
anything else?

Unknown Speaker 6:12
No. I don't think so.

Unknown Speaker 6:15
This could have been the same day even at that beach.

Unknown Speaker 6:18
Probably more. Yeah, same sort of weather. Babies

Unknown Speaker 6:25
look about the same

Unknown Speaker 6:30
Okay, Alex goes on the wharf Hmm

Unknown Speaker 6:44
No, I don't know where that is.

Unknown Speaker 6:47
Do you know who this person is?

Unknown Speaker 6:49
I think that's one of his I think that South America was on a dock there was no LifeRing there it could be it could be somebody from Atlanta I don't recognize

Unknown Speaker 7:04
so I'm not sure what this

Unknown Speaker 7:06
looks like Jim.

Unknown Speaker 7:07
Yeah, yeah, he really does

Unknown Speaker 7:15
Yeah, that would be going out of I suppose.

Unknown Speaker 7:17
How old do you think he is?

Unknown Speaker 7:20
It's probably 50 I would say I don't know who they are guys that sort of recognize its face but not I don't think I knew just from pictures what was your dad 176

Unknown Speaker 7:56
at the same picture but a sepia

Unknown Speaker 8:00
sepia

Unknown Speaker 8:07
oh that's it that same day and

Unknown Speaker 8:10
so that was it Alex skins and Mary with the outboard we think that's actually Elizabeth

Unknown Speaker 8:15
could have been could have been either one I couldn't really now. All right.

Unknown Speaker 8:20
So that's that same day

Unknown Speaker 8:29
okay, we've seen this one already. Alex some of them have different names here. Let's go to where's this

Unknown Speaker 8:44
that's probably MaryAnne. See the oak tree? Yeah. And that's made out in the background. Right, right. Okay. Across the pass. Yeah. Damn by the flagpole. Right.

Unknown Speaker 9:00
And that's maybe Elizabeth

Unknown Speaker 9:08
god it's hard to say that age. Yeah, yeah, I kinda look like chubby um

Unknown Speaker 9:18
so this is probably we think this is probably 1922 or three

Unknown Speaker 9:23
Yeah, somewhere close. Okay, probably 23

Unknown Speaker 9:26
Right and maybe your mom took this picture

Unknown Speaker 9:28
possibly yeah yeah

Unknown Speaker 9:39
Alex schools three

Unknown Speaker 9:41
same house.

Unknown Speaker 9:42
That's it. Yeah. Marry on point mistakable and that baby let's see the Mary Betty

Unknown Speaker 9:57
maybe this little one this bed. Yeah. Have

Unknown Speaker 10:01
the dog I don't remember. Oh, you weren't around yet. No, I wasn't

Unknown Speaker 10:09
cheap. We should try to find out

Unknown Speaker 10:12
anything else about this one

Unknown Speaker 10:22
okay, Alex schools with a child on his lap.

Unknown Speaker 10:24
Yes this is at lions gym.

Unknown Speaker 10:32
I think that's baby. When was Jim born 2828

Unknown Speaker 10:43
Your dad looks pretty happy he spent a lot of time

Unknown Speaker 10:44
with babies on his knee

Unknown Speaker 10:46
while he was retired

Unknown Speaker 10:55
I think he he probably posed for photographs but as far as spending a lot of time with us he didn't really know he wasn't. I mean, it was a good fight. It wasn't a doting father he didn't do any any washing the diapers or do any housework. No no, no

Unknown Speaker 11:15
yeah

Unknown Speaker 11:17
your mother's delight

Unknown Speaker 11:19
Well, I'm sure Well, nowadays people didn't everything was very structured morning Scott. It was a nice place. Oh yeah. Sunny branders Yeah, it's beautiful. Nice lawn nice beach. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 11:44
So where was it exactly?

Unknown Speaker 11:45
That's lions morning beach. Clients house sits right there look so actually their house doesn't walk out at all doesn't have anything looking out to the sea. Sort of one of those houses that sort of bog standard go in house and you can't see anything weird

Unknown Speaker 12:12
okay

Unknown Speaker 12:18
schools on Martha Martha the famous tractor

Unknown Speaker 12:27
that's probably that's our biggest point. Yeah. Yeah. That's he used to deliver the he used to read the meters for the guy on weight and power. That was his transportation. He went all over the place. Martha

Unknown Speaker 12:47
How old do you think he is in this picture?

Unknown Speaker 12:49
You'd be probably 7475

Unknown Speaker 13:00
So he did it he was doing it then.

Unknown Speaker 13:04
I would say he's probably 73 or four somewhere around there

Unknown Speaker 13:14
and I don't know who would have taken this picture. I have no

Unknown Speaker 13:18
idea No. That's the hard question could have been me it could have been Betty could have been anybody

Unknown Speaker 13:31
next one is

Unknown Speaker 13:35
beginning the first dance in 1929.

Unknown Speaker 13:43
That was the opening of a hall

Unknown Speaker 13:49
so I'm gonna take longer to rotate them. So this is the open the first

Unknown Speaker 13:56
lot of the dedication I think

Unknown Speaker 14:03
Chris was in the chair, I guess up there he was the secretary of the band. No. Sorry. I think this is Leftenant. Governor here. I'm not sure if his

Unknown Speaker 14:17
name right. I have another picture of him coming off the ferry. That's right. That

Unknown Speaker 14:22
was the same day they had the parade coming up. I wore that little band. Oh, my mother

Unknown Speaker 14:33
in right here in the White in the pale dress on the far right.

Unknown Speaker 14:40
I'm there too, but you can't see me.

Unknown Speaker 14:42
Oh, do you remember?

Unknown Speaker 14:44
Was it an exciting day?

Unknown Speaker 14:48
You can't see me I wasn't visible. Right. But do you remember? No I wasn't hadn't. Oh, you were born? No, but I

Unknown Speaker 14:56
was there. You're inside right? was

Unknown Speaker 15:00
the American you find me in that picture because that was 1929 Right

Unknown Speaker 15:17
okay

Unknown Speaker 15:20
birdie Bruce

Unknown Speaker 15:25
was birdie. Birdie Bruce he was Mr. And Mrs. Bruce's daughter and she married

Unknown Speaker 15:36
DON No he was pretty black when she got after she got married was she yeah she was always pretty black to me

Unknown Speaker 15:57
they lived where by the band's lives, Bruce's and they bought my bought barrel store actually in the end

Unknown Speaker 16:11
either Mrs. Brutus was a writer. She wrote one quite a novel that sold really well. Call her Rosie. It's a good book. Yeah, even my mother, we're good friends

Unknown Speaker 16:34
so

Unknown Speaker 16:36
anything else about them? No?

Unknown Speaker 16:44
Okay, here's Betty and friends

Unknown Speaker 16:54
but the wrong side of the

Unknown Speaker 16:59
wrong side of the photograph.

Unknown Speaker 17:00
I would think so. Yeah. That's the rear view.

Unknown Speaker 17:07
Here is here's Betty and John and choo choo. Yes. Oh, how cute.

Unknown Speaker 17:17
It is kind of cute.

Unknown Speaker 17:20
Do you remember choo choo?

Unknown Speaker 17:21
Oh, yeah, sure. No, pick n A's.

Unknown Speaker 17:27
So What year do you think this was?

Unknown Speaker 17:31
Well, how old am I? They're two. Not three. But three, I guess. Before? Three or four. So okay. 1933.

Unknown Speaker 17:50
And where do you think is very important?

Unknown Speaker 17:53
I would think so. That's hard to say. But it's not Lyons. No, it must be Marianne. Yeah. Oh, it could have been Saltspring too. Because we were living there then. Could have been again Geez. Yeah, I think it is. Yeah, it's like you're up high. Yeah. On the ground. The whole round sloped and there was no flat ground on that property. Yeah, that's where it would be front line Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 18:42
Okay, here's Betty at fourth open buddy at 14

Unknown Speaker 18:56
Suppose Where do you think that's,

Unknown Speaker 19:01
that's caused by Monday?

Unknown Speaker 19:07
She was 14. And you said she was born maybe in what? 2022?

Unknown Speaker 19:13
So that's when we moved back to Atlanta from Salzburg when she was 14. And it 36 That's

Unknown Speaker 19:26
happy. It's happy to be back again.

Unknown Speaker 19:31
It was always happy

Unknown Speaker 19:40
Okay, here is

Unknown Speaker 19:41
Betty bathing. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 19:46
Who else? That's Margie. Margie wants that picture destroyed. She doesn't want it to appear. doesn't like it. No, no, I agree with that. I think she doesn't want it so clickbait Of course. I do. and even shorter. I just told her about it. She said, burn it. Okay, it's kind of it's kind of revealing. She appreciate that. That's me on the background. I think it is. It looks like me anyway. Yeah, I don't remember a picture being taken.

Unknown Speaker 20:19
Yeah it's hard to imagine those two girls for not being so thin

Unknown Speaker 20:34
and this is Lions

Unknown Speaker 20:44
anything about this? No

Unknown Speaker 20:55
Okay, in his bonnet she's all dressed up.

Unknown Speaker 21:01
Yeah that's a Lions

Unknown Speaker 21:09
maybe eight or nine or something? Probably. Yeah. And is that choo choo? Or was that some fur thing? Like a dog? Yeah, I don't think it's future cat. Looks like a cat. Yeah, maybe that's tabby.

Unknown Speaker 21:32
I was just reading his book. Cat. Tabby pets had so many cats. Yeah, okay. Yeah. She liked to dress up

Unknown Speaker 21:49
okay, go going somewhere. Oh

Unknown Speaker 21:57
this is on Brennan was that in Vancouver? No, Victoria. Let's PIP and Derek finesse. PIP and Derek. You remember Pip? Yeah. She used to babysit them once in a while. That was at their house on Woodstock Avenue. Yeah, I babysat them too. Good.

Unknown Speaker 22:31
How old? Do you think Betty is here?

Unknown Speaker 22:34
Well, that would be see? Probably not 40s, late 40s.

Unknown Speaker 22:57
Sort of in her mid 20s.

Unknown Speaker 22:58
I would say she's probably about 17 or 18 or.

Unknown Speaker 23:13
Cast bill and a friend in uniform.

Unknown Speaker 23:16
Yeah. That's Pip. This little guy. Yeah. Yeah. That's me.

Unknown Speaker 23:24
Well, that's you. Oh, my goodness. I didn't recognize you.

Unknown Speaker 23:31
That's me. Not

Unknown Speaker 23:33
used to seeing you with such dark hair.

Unknown Speaker 23:36
My hair was really dark. Wasn't quite black, but it was really dark, as much as my skin. And so what was Bill what was building? He was in the Navy. So this would be during the war have been 1843 or something. Yeah, I guess he goes home on leave.

Unknown Speaker 23:56
How much older is he

Unknown Speaker 24:00
is well, he's 76. So it's five years old.

Unknown Speaker 24:09
So you just you were just young enough to not have to go

Unknown Speaker 24:12
I didn't I missed it. I didn't think so at the time. I could have killed it in

Unknown Speaker 24:20
so patriotic. Yeah, I'm glad I didn't go now. Yeah. Yeah. They all had a hell of a time. No more.

Unknown Speaker 24:38
He wasn't cut out for that kind of I was did a lot of other people I guess.

Unknown Speaker 24:49
Three gentle tape. You thrust down on the bowls of a Corvette Mid Atlantic? Bombing submarine Have

Unknown Speaker 25:08
you had a terrible breakdown when he came home from the war

Unknown Speaker 25:27
we're all lucky that

Unknown Speaker 25:33
there's bill and a friend on

Unknown Speaker 25:36
that's Oh, I remember let's man

Unknown Speaker 25:49
she worked for the Haven it's really cute. Beth

Unknown Speaker 26:03
looks quite dashing

Unknown Speaker 26:05
Yeah, he was madly in love whether yeah actually it looks like my grandson they're really yeah what features so that's Alliance

Unknown Speaker 26:20
so she moved here to she

Unknown Speaker 26:21
worked here for the summer what's her name

Unknown Speaker 26:32
nobody would wake up in the middle of the night.

Unknown Speaker 26:33
Two hours

Unknown Speaker 26:36
Louise Louise

Unknown Speaker 26:39
Good job to sweep

Unknown Speaker 26:43
the Senate lines and so what year do you think this is?

Unknown Speaker 26:48
Probably 3038 or 39 Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 26:58
And you don't know who these kids are?

Unknown Speaker 26:59
No I don't know whose legs those are there. They don't belong to this kid because it's kind of a weird leaning back with something on his towel or something. I guess not me it's too big

Unknown Speaker 27:25
yeah

Unknown Speaker 27:32
okay and then

Unknown Speaker 27:36
bill in the Navy. Oh yeah. Thank you

Unknown Speaker 27:43
Yeah. When he used to come home on leave I used to put that on and walk around and look in the mirror and it was all there yeah, he was heavy. There was happy then. It was never any heavier than that. You went up to 195 pounds I think one point start and stuff in the Navy area

Unknown Speaker 28:14
How old was he when he went into he

Unknown Speaker 28:15
was 17 now yeah

Unknown Speaker 28:24
yeah

Unknown Speaker 28:30
that one Oh yeah.

Unknown Speaker 28:31
Okay faster

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Okay

Unknown Speaker 28:43
this one is about in the past yes

Unknown Speaker 28:45
the Moto princess. And is this one taken from us taken from our Buddhist point honeymoon cottage one Mary kings come along. And his grandmother

Unknown Speaker 29:07
was that

Unknown Speaker 29:09
that would have been taken. Oh, I guess in the 40s.

Unknown Speaker 29:17
Of the early 40s Well, no, it wasn't an award because the mother princess was painted gray painted all the CPR boats gray during the war

Unknown Speaker 29:28
to make them less visible Yes.

Unknown Speaker 29:30
Yeah

Unknown Speaker 29:44
okay, this is a boat on the beach. To you.

Unknown Speaker 29:48
That's true. Choose what Blake let's mum Bob on their honeymoon. Last night in my teen I guess Yeah

Unknown Speaker 30:02
What was your mother's name?

Unknown Speaker 30:03
Either Isabel Isabel Yeah

Unknown Speaker 30:13
Where did they get married?

Unknown Speaker 30:14
They got married at that she swapped Blake little church quite close there I forget that even period remember the name of the church should be here it would have been more helpful to me I don't think they have very good weather on their honeymoon so no pictures on them they were quite heavily dressed excuse me I don't know if they had an insight I think they just said sort of oh they're camping Yeah, Camp seeing oh okay

Unknown Speaker 31:01
there's the boys fishing in a boat

Unknown Speaker 31:04
who I don't know not your boys No, no who that is I've never seen that picture

Unknown Speaker 31:22
no

Unknown Speaker 31:27
no

Unknown Speaker 31:33
camps this is where they honeymoon. Well they had a temp

Unknown Speaker 31:40
sweet little teepee.

Unknown Speaker 31:44
Rain I think looks like it. Yeah, I'm not sure what time it when they were married must have been. I think it was the spring of 19

Unknown Speaker 32:01
Now you can see mom's sitting there and she's got a sweater

Unknown Speaker 32:16
so were they living up there or do they just

Unknown Speaker 32:18
went there? Well, mom came out in the train the Revelstoke drove up there and they got married and had spent their honeymoon and then came back to the guy on where she come from. She came from Northumberland, Newcastle

Unknown Speaker 32:44
That's romantic.

Unknown Speaker 32:51
Edith and Mary. Oh, that sounds good. Let's

Unknown Speaker 32:54
set the record straight. Die.

Unknown Speaker 32:56
This is at die. And

Unknown Speaker 32:58
who is this? Mary? Yes, both.

Unknown Speaker 33:02
So who was that guy was who's

Unknown Speaker 33:04
Alex? Sister.

Unknown Speaker 33:07
She older than him.

Unknown Speaker 33:12
She was a funny old stick to chi like Uncle Paul, I think had had an early romance. And I think she held out too long when the guy took off and seen some of our early letters and keeps talking about getting married and all this stuff. And then she never did with a spinster. She used to come visit every three or four years to come up and stay for a month

Unknown Speaker 33:49
of her favorite things she'd like to discipline us as he used to say n o spells No. And when I say no, I mean no.

Unknown Speaker 34:02
Really. I never knew her very well. She didn't communicate much with the kids

Unknown Speaker 34:18
so this must be 1921

Unknown Speaker 34:20
Yeah, I would say I mean, it's hard to say who that is. Actually, it doesn't look looks more like a boy. Be Me. Jim. I'm probably Jim I think. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 34:37
And Jim was born in 2028.

Unknown Speaker 34:38
That's hard. That's impossible. I couldn't tell you.

Unknown Speaker 34:43
Okay, so that's one of the one of the scans babies 20 Sometime Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 34:51
Course nothing is written on the back to tell who they were. When. Again, yeah yeah, I think that's married. He was chubby cute the same day. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 35:14
That's another one to set me up if you want to go back

Unknown Speaker 35:27
that's not easy. That's die. Right? Not you. Die Diana Janus goons.

Unknown Speaker 35:40
Nice picture. What do you think this was? This was at? That's

Unknown Speaker 35:46
Alliance? Yeah, you can tell where the light and the trees that was the only place you got that really.

Unknown Speaker 35:55
So you went back and forth between the two houses when they

Unknown Speaker 36:01
started out. When they're first married, they were lived at Marianne. Bedi. Mary and Betty were born when they were living at Marriott. And but then I'm not sure. But then Uncle Paul had built the house at Lyons. And then when his true love never showed up. I think mom and pop the side of it, it wouldn't be good idea to raise that. Unbeknownst to them. They want to have six kids at Marriott points. And enter the raging tarts. So they switched. And we moved I wasn't there and move to lions. And pop on like a ball moved them around. And then we were at Lions for a year. I was born when we were at lions. And we moved to Salt Springs for school was we had to go to private school. Mary and Betty I guess started school? No, they went here for a year or two I think it did.

Unknown Speaker 37:14
And then we moved to Salzburg. Because there's pictures of Betty at the school. And then yeah, right. So yeah, I made it there until I was six. And then we moved back to lions. We stayed at Lions for a very long couple of years. And then but a large move there looks quite glamorous. They're

Unknown Speaker 37:57
very happy.

Unknown Speaker 37:58
She wasn't a happy person though. I don't ever remember her. You know, really belly laughing or anything. She was always that's mum

Unknown Speaker 38:13
said her hair curled. Ross never did Mother justice. And that's funny. She just wasn't photogenic but she was really attracted.

Unknown Speaker 38:30
And a wonderful face. Our Buddhist point, but Margie is where Margie left no and

Unknown Speaker 38:45
I will thank you mom.

Unknown Speaker 38:48
Oh she is probably 68 or 970 Probably should be 70 or 8095 on to the next tour. Got more of your mom

Unknown Speaker 39:17
eat at schools and the baby

Unknown Speaker 39:23
that's bill and that's taken in France. Bill and Margaret were born overseas in England and then they moved to the south of France. That's failed you can see you can tell it's Bill dimple is chin

Unknown Speaker 39:49
mom had blue black hair, or was so black was like Raven color

Unknown Speaker 39:59
looks worried

Unknown Speaker 40:07
so Bill was born in 20

Unknown Speaker 40:15
Mary's 21 Betty was 22 Bill was 23 or four I can't remember February probably 24 Yeah, I think 24

Unknown Speaker 40:35
France must have been beautiful and oh

Unknown Speaker 40:42
yes Okay,

Unknown Speaker 40:46
so now we have itas goons and a child

Unknown Speaker 40:54
this looks like that same day with all the pictures of your dad

Unknown Speaker 41:00
I can't make up that's a bit weird what's happened there?

Unknown Speaker 41:05
I'm not sure it might have been the way the computer dealt with that or something like

Unknown Speaker 41:12
that How do they know that is?

Unknown Speaker 41:15
I mean they're just guessing

Unknown Speaker 41:19
some woman

Unknown Speaker 41:21
well that probably wouldn't be mom because it would be Mom and Pop are there yeah sure. So he's probably taking the picture now. The other one

Unknown Speaker 41:33
and that looks like that looks like replacing

Unknown Speaker 41:37
those

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with that team 24

Unknown Speaker 41:44
Yeah 33 or four people 18 months

Unknown Speaker 42:02
okay that's not enough to marry we've seen that

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was the best schools nursing

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she

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was the president

Unknown Speaker 42:25
of what I said

Unknown Speaker 42:28
nursing president in 1943 President of her class or something like that?

Unknown Speaker 42:36
Oh probably Yeah. I don't understand the President No, I don't know about that

Unknown Speaker 42:45
this is her at UBC

Unknown Speaker 42:47
yeah

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right yeah

Unknown Speaker 42:59
we Yeah, that's because I was what was I doing I still going to school on software No, I wasn't I was going to school North was going to private school. Vancouver yep yeah

Unknown Speaker 43:27
she must have been an early 20s there

Unknown Speaker 43:29
yeah

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okay, here's the family in a skiff

Unknown Speaker 43:36
robot notice if you don't need to easily to identify those people and your Dad Yes.

Unknown Speaker 43:49
And that is Jim

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yes course.

Unknown Speaker 43:51
And that is you and your mom. Yeah. Wow, that really is Jim. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 43:59
wow. Yeah, where's that sturdy thick

Unknown Speaker 44:09
no picnic over the hill was it seems to me it was somewhere down tender I don't know why I think that

Unknown Speaker 44:22
I don't know why I think it was on Pender there's a bit of a war for something there. I'm not really sure no

Unknown Speaker 44:39
I don't know why I think it's better because remember, there's another picture taken at the same time with several boats pulled up on a beach and it looks like Peters cove on Wallace Pinter that's what I always imagined that the base or maybe it's my imagination sounds kind of

Unknown Speaker 44:59
tired You'd have a glass of water

Unknown Speaker 45:01
no

Unknown Speaker 45:04
okay here's another one family in the same boat

Unknown Speaker 45:12
that's morning beach

Unknown Speaker 45:17
wow so you're all those girls

Unknown Speaker 45:19
that would be I've never seen that picture by that's top probably without being me. No I'm in it maybe it's not me maybe I'm not there

Unknown Speaker 45:32
maybe this is you right here maybe this is if this is I guess it's not the same day is it?

Unknown Speaker 45:37
No it's different but that looks like Betty in front of

Unknown Speaker 45:44
me there and then maybe

Unknown Speaker 45:54
it's hard to say

Unknown Speaker 45:58
that the other two girls

Unknown Speaker 46:04
Betty and Margie it could be Mary Beth and Margaret purpose say What's this giant bird or something? The beak it's a

Unknown Speaker 46:21
little girly pig tail.

Unknown Speaker 46:23
Face she's turned around oh maybe Oh I see what hair on the back. That's her shoulder I see that you got to use your imagination

Unknown Speaker 46:40
my sister and then the giant bird

Unknown Speaker 46:44
or a bird on the back of her head that one sure Okay

Unknown Speaker 47:02
girls at forks

Unknown Speaker 47:11
no idea not a clue no relation somebody I didn't know what forks Grand Forks maybe

Unknown Speaker 47:41
girls on a log

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very rare Do

Unknown Speaker 47:51
you think this is

Unknown Speaker 47:55
that's lines no, there is there's up on the blog as tree has fallen into the water and there's rocks in the time.

Unknown Speaker 48:08
How long do you think they are? They're

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five and seven or six. Maybe one of your parents took this picture?

Unknown Speaker 48:21
I would probably think so. I don't think that unless there was somebody there. I would say

Unknown Speaker 48:42
greenways 1930's You know that's where the largest you recognize the stonework. Yeah. Yeah. So last called greenways. That's what we call it. By we ran it as a summer resort. That's when we bought it it was called done Roman. The people that built it kept on