For a short biography of Marion Feltmate see the year 1932

1947

Jan 3: Spent the afternoon at Aunt Ethel's [Grover]. Only their own family at home. Late getting home from the mail and then busy packing.

Jan 4: alice Conrad & I went to Cross Roads with Fred H $1.25 each. Monestery by bus and Josie Greencorn age 16 joined us on her way to Dartmouth school. I went to Annie's [Duncan in Trenton] this time. Viola & I went there on the jitney. In Monestery we talked to Blondie, Moon and  Leeman.

Jan 6: To the dentist 2 fillings and 1 extraction $5. Dr Adamson (Miss macLean assistant) To bed early

Jan 7: To the dentist a.m. 1 silver filling and teeth cleaned $2. To John Grover's for dinner and supper at Gertie's. She & I went to Beatty's. Vic there too.

Jan 8: to Mrs Turnbulls sisters a.m. Annie & I visited Chattie [Charity Uloth] Mr MacKinnon & Earl MacKinnon p.m. aunt Deen [Duncan] arrived today.

Jan 10: Left N[ew] G[lasgow] about 11. Trainman sat with me most of the way. Flattered at first but interest soon waning. Met Donny [Feltmate] at Monestery and we rode to Cross Roads with the MacMillins for $2 each and hired Harold Munroe for $1 each.

Jan 11: Pa is 71 today.

Jan 12: Went to Aunt Ethel's and had supper. Donny & Vera [Feltmate], Mr & Mrs Conrad there tonight. Mosher and Leeman also.

Jan 14: Mom & Pa to the wedding from 11 a.m. (Elizabeth MacDonald to Norman Henderson of England. ). I walked up with Ina & Connie [Grover] and rode home with Mom, Pa, Earl  & Clayton Hendsbee. At least 74 there.

Jan 16: Patsy here for supper. We went to barracks show. Sat side by side in 2 big arm chairs and came home together with Carroll.

Jan 17: Assorting contents of trunks and what a room!

Jan 18: Home all evening writing mostly

Jan 19: Church a.m. Communion with Mr Hatfield. Young & tall from Bayfield.

Jan 21: Lillian here stamping pillow cases.

Jan 22: Working pillow cases in shop. Fairchild in a short time. Snow today. Prestanski & Cocherane at the office.

Jan 24: I didn't go to Show. Pa didn't either. Sel Myers hung himself.

Jan 25: This evening they put the new "apperatus" on the hill and I think it effected the radio more than ever.

Jan 28: Took soup up to Mrs Nelt [Grover]. She is in bed.

Jan 29: Big wash. Went to show at barracks with Connie, Dickie, Carl & Pa. Aunt Ethel sat with me. Dickie and Barteau had a fight. I danced with Leeman, Mosher, Prestanski, and Christian. Came home in truck.

Jan 31: This was the lovliest month of fine weather!

Feb 2: Mama & Pa to see Jim Duncan. I listened to the program Joan of Arc. (She was a french peasant girl who led an army and was burned at the stake.)

Feb 3: Went to barracks dance with Connie & Dickie and came home with them. Not very enjoyable. Danced with the tiffy also Prestanski & Christian. Beatrice & Gloria came home [Duncan].

Feb 6: Reta here p.m. She went to Alden's and I went to Aunt Ethel's. Mr Abbott & John Grover there. Also Everett George & Seymour Meeds. I went to barracks with Connie, Tiffy, Leeman, Vivian, & Lang.

Feb 8: I went to the [post] office and nearly blew over. Icy roads.

Feb 10: Pa & Carroll to barracks show. Mama & I cut butterflies.

Feb 11: Explosion of boiler at barracks

Feb 13: Agatha & I went to Guild at Aunt Ethel's and played chinese checkers. She won 4 out of 6. Disappointed in my Valentines. 

Feb 14: Saw Earnie Gourlay. Jean & Austen [Feltmate] in today. The men are working on the road. Got a nice Valentine. worked on pillow cases tonight. Murry got a pot burner. [Likely Murray Munroe?-pf]

Feb 15: Carroll [her brother] got dressed up and went to Canso. He looks super.

Feb 17: Blowing hard to the east. Arthur [Rhynold] here playing crokinole.

Feb 18: Last night Ida's roof blew off. [Ida & Dan George?-pf]. Knitting. Barteau brought his pants up again to sew. Rhynold taxi brought Carl home.

Feb 21: Hail. Little black barracks dog here (Chips)

Feb 22: Our first sleet this morning. But so warm it is slush tonight

Feb 23: Went to aunt Ethel's [Grover]. Have[lock] Munroe there and Mr & Mrs Lohnes Feltmate too.

Feb 24: Mama's birthday. 4 of us home all evening. Earl's second baby born today 8 a.m. I think a girl. Murry went away to Bickerton. [Edith Earlene Duncan born to Earl and Louise Duncan -pf]

Feb 25: Mama went to Uncle George's [Grover] in the sleigh and came home in the wagon.

Feb 27: Connie & I made a snow man by the church.

Feb 28: Went for a walk this afternoon to the lake. Connie & I to the show "She Wouldn't say Yes" Rosalin Russel.

Mar 1: Went for a walk to the lake. 4 or 5 openings about 20 ft sq where they hauled ice this week. Pa, Connie & I went to show at barracks. "Cisco Kid" and the "Bowery Boys".

Mar 4: Falcon [Duncan] installed our oil burner. I kept store today.

Mar 5: Agatha here tonight. We lay on the bed and listened to the radio.

Mar 6: worked in shop

Mar 7: Mama hooking at Aunt Ina's. Went to show at Hall with Hancock, Connie, Dickie. Deanna Durbin in "Because of Him"

Mar 10: To the show about the 1st airplane

Mar 11: Vera & Donny Feltmate here tonight

Mar 12: Frances & Beatty arrived from New Glasgow. I worked in store today

Mar 13: Connie, Agatha and Marion G. went to show at barracks

Mar 16: Ethel [Grover], Foreman [McCabe] & George [Grover] here tonight

Mar 17: Pa, Carroll & Barteau working at old kitchen. Murry helped too. Mama finished mat

Mar 19: Carroll & Murry took the sailors out in their boat

Mar 21: Beatty & Frances in with Thurlow a short time. Connie & I over there tonight. They are leaving for B.C. tomorrow

Mar 23: Home all day reading Readers Digest.

Mar 28: Went to barracks with Pa. Sat with Patsy. "Her Primitive Man"

Mar 29: Didn't go to barracks. Bernie & Edward went with Carl & Pa. Thelma came home last night.

Mar 30: Mrs MacDonald & Dunc here tonight

April 3: Went to barracks with Pa & Carroll. Came home with Agatha & Tiffy. Lovely show of Spencer Tracy in Africa

April 5: We had a choir practice

April 10: Guild here: Lillian, Edna, Alice,Ada, Ina, Johanna, Lizzie, Helen, Thelma, Ida, Flora, Minnie, aunt Fan, Marion, Ethel, Connie, Me, Mom, Carroll (Pa & Joe H)

Apr 11: Connie & I to show. "My Name is Julia Ross."

Apr 13: Went to Agatha's tonight. Clarel there.

Apr 14: Mama put her quilt in. Aunt Ina helped her with the batt.

Apr 15: Agatha & I as far as the mountain

Apr 16: Went over and gave Mr Harv his 20 cents I owed him. Dickie was drafted today

Apr 19: Orr took Joyce, Agatha & I to the barracks. Lillian, Butch & Connie there. Fernie took a picture of us. Nice evening. Only a few there. Met Vimy.

Apr 21: Connie & I to show. Amy Johnson flying

Apr 24: Agatha, Joyce & Orr called for me and we went to barracks show (Jack Benny).

Apr 28: Connie, Agatha & I to show at the Hall "When Strangers Marry"

Apr 30: Went to barracks with Vimy. Navy Picture.

May 1: Mom made fudge for the boys. Vimy & Smitty came for us to fo to show but we didn't go.

May 3: Connie & I went to Patsy's dance. Erben & Donny & I played. Russel & Connie & Agatha played too. I danced two with Vimy Clowater. Lovely night.

May 5: Vimy & I dug clams this afternoon. I didn't go to the show. It was a spooky picture. Vimy brought some records up.

May 7: Saw Vimy a few minutes this morning and he came up after they got back from Three Top [Island]. Big party at barracks but I didn't go. Antigonish girls and beer.

May 8: Rain this morning. Agatha Vimy Smitty also Barteau in the store this afternoon. Smitty was asleep and Barteau was mean and put a lobster on his ear.

May 12: Connie & I to show at Hall "Meet John Doe"

May 16: Vimy up this afternoon, copied music and argued a bit but we went down to the show "Bedelia" and sort of patched it up

May 17: Connie, Joyce, Agatha & I went to Blanche's party (shower). Fred brought us home after 12 in his new car

May 22: Vimy in the store from 3 to 5.20. Made cords & tassels of yarn. He came up tonight but as usual it ended all wrong.

May 23: Vimy took Connie to the show. I went to bed but it isn't so bad.

May 24: At the show about Zombies. Came down with Agatha, Crookshanks & Tiffy Phalen

BORN
1947
Harry Thomas Rhynold
Edith Earline Duncan
Cynthia Rose George
Glenda Ann Rhynold (May 28)
James David Rhynold
Roy Elliot Ehler
Edith Margaret Feltmate

May 31: Lexie, Lucetta & Earnie & Mrs Pyke from New Glasgow arrived. Lexie, Bernie & I went to show at  barracks but no good.  ["Earnie" is Ernest Pyke and his mother. Marion eventually will marrry Ernie in 1952 -pf]

Jun 4: Went to the show & dance at the barracks. What a racket singing etc.

Jun 11: Party at barracks. A couple Queensport girls. Very good time. Had a waltz with Vimy & Doug Fraser and Eurben

Jun 12: Went to Haulover p.m. To MacDonald's, Isabel's, Jean's [Feltmate] and Bertha's [Pyche]. Came home with Dave Rhynold in boat.

Jun 15: Lillian's [Rhynold] baby born today at Antigonish. [James David Rhynold, son of Lillian (Conrad) and Clarence Rhynold -pf]

Jun 16: Helped Mama paper some up the kitchen loft. Put up the hall curtain. Mrs Tanner & Lizzie [Porter] here tonight. Thelma's [Ehler] baby born today, her 2nd boy. [Roy Elliot Ehler born to Thelma (Porter) and Roy Ehler -pf]

Jun 20: Went to Connie's shop tonight. Maurice Pitts playing guitar. Eurben, Bernie, Arthur [Rhynold] & Leslie [Duncan] there.

Jun 22: Agatha [Munroe] & I went up the harbour in Bernie's big boat alone! Then Bernie [Munroe] & Eurben took us to Yankee Cove. I had supper at Agatha's. Bernie & Eurben came home with me and I gave them some cake.

Jun 23: Bell went away drafted. They say its Bernie's birthday.

Jun 26: Went to Canso with Edna. My blood is down to 60. Went to Bible class at the Hall. Mr Hart & Mr Kendrick

Jun 28: Melinda [(Feltmate) Munroe] & Alf [Munroe, her husband] here today. Went to Yankee Cove with Aunt Ethel [Grover], Uncle George [Grover], Foreman [McCabe] & Have[lock Munroe].
Took 2 calves over. 

Jun 29: Mama & Pa went to barracks with McDonalds but the show machine didn't work

July 6: Went to United church. 3 babies christened (Marguerite's, Clara's and Purvis's. Also Clara's Arnold [Rhynold]). Ainsley took Agatha & me in for ice cream to Purvis's.

Jul 10: Went to Fishermen's Union dance with Connie. Danced with Leslie, Moon, & Dover guy. Had a nice time.

Jul 13: To the show at barracks tonight with Connie. The cook scared me all through the picture "the Ghost & Mrs Muir"

Jul 16: Up to Connie's store tonight. Carl Fitz[gerald] & George Fraser there.

Jul 17: Big New Glasgow truck in with supplies.

Jul 24: George Fraser here to dinner. We played for awhile. Tonight Uncle Sidney [Grover], Jack [Farrell, a visiting relative from Boston] & I sang.

Jul 28: Cecilia Cashin here.

Jul 29: Show at the Barracks. The Sullivans. I saw that first then Dance at the Hall. Pat Munroe put it on.

Jul 30: We all went to the barracks dance but so many strangers, no fun.

Aug 2: We went to Huntley's tonight on the back of his truck. Bernie, Eurben, Agatha, Patsy, Willie G, Mary, baby & I. Lovely night. Plenty moonlight & warm.

Aug 3: Connie & I up the road all afternoon. Bernie & Erben came down with us. I rowed them home. They took Patsy, Agatha, Shirley, Kathleen, Beatrice & I to Yankee Cove and we almost run over Archer on the surf board.

Aug 4: Murry's boat came in today.

Aug 6: I went to barracks dance with Orr, Joyce, Agatha, Patsy, Connie, Pearl, & Gloria. Then Clara Rhynold and Helen came. There was Terry, Pauline, Joesaphine, June, Annette, Shirley H, Shirley, Kathleen, & Beatrice M. Also  3 Canso girls. Murry & Carroll played.

Aug 11: Carl, Murry, George F & Carl Fitz went swordfishing to C.B [Cape Breton]

Aug 15: Goldie [(Williams) Hastings], Herm [Hastings her husband], Donnie [Feltmate] and the tiffy here for haddock supper. Mama & I went to Aunt Ethel's with the others tonight. Wilfred Ehler
came for them and we all sang hymns. Mr MacCabe brought mom & me home.

Aug 16: Nice day. Did my work and picked some berries. Mama & I to Purvis' for ice cream. Harry Duncan arrived (also Clayton & Sheila Munroe and little sister).

Aug 17: Connie & I with Reynolds Harris to the Baptist church up the River and to Guysboro to Greg Hadleys and to Boylston

Aug 21: Agatha, Pearl, Helen & I to the dance put on for River School.

Aug 22: Mrs Thurlow [Munroe] here looking at old pictures.

Aug 24: Ball game this afternoon in uncle Joe's field. 9-8 in favor of H[alf] I[sland] Cove.

Aug 30: Hughie & Anne Duncan arrived

Aug 31: Ball game and just finished when the rain poured down.Whitehead was far ahead this time. Earl Duncan's two children christened.

Sep 1: To Agatha's a short time. Vern [Agatha's brother] left about 8.30 by truck for Halifax. Agatha & her mother is going to Monestry for Merle [another sister.]

Sep 3: Barracks dance in the new building

Sep 5: Harvey George had a dance

Sep 6: Mama & I picked some blueberries

Sep 11: Guild at our house. went home with Mrs Thurloe. Heard the horse going ahead of me when I came back

Sep 12: Went to Hall show on aunt Fan's ticket

Sep 13: Went to Uncle George's p.m. Took a blueberry pie & cake. Had 20 cent ice cream at Purvis. Went down and talked to Mrs Thurloe for awhile.

Sep 14: Lillian's baby christened. Pa, Mum & Uncle George stood for it. Mum & Pa went to Bob Hendsbee's funeral with Dunc & Mrs McDonald.

Sep 15: Rain in torrents.

Sep 17: Eurben, Ainsley, Agatha, Pearl, Helen, Connie, Dickie & I went to the barracks dance. I played all evening. We had a corn boil over in the barracks.

Sep 19: Connie here and we ate fried potatoes

Sep 22: Connie & I to the show "Leopard Man of Africa"

Sep 23: Mama Ina Connie & I all went to the Red Cross meeting at the Hall. Mr Chafe Mr Drover Dr Stanton there. Pa president  Huntley vice president Della chairman of work committee Bertha secretary Edna treasurer

Sep 24: Connie & I to the barracks show. Not much good. Jean [Feltmate] & Mrs Angus Feltmate here p.m. [Mrs Angus Feltmate was Bessie Leah (Munroe) Feltmate. Jean was her daughter-in-law married to Austin Feltmate -pf]

Sep 25: I stayed home alone and worked some fancy work.

Sep 26: Capt & Mrs Myers here today. Mama & I picked blueberries today. Pa nor I didn't go to the show. [not sure which Myers was Captain Myers - pf]

Sep 29: Went to Nellie's, [Harry & Nelllie Feltmate], Katie's [Munroe],  McDonald's, supper at Joe's [Munroe]. Went to Bertha's [dau of Horace/Hause Pyche], Harris, & Winslow's [Munroe]. [Marion had spent the day at the "Haulover" as Whitehead proper was called -pf]

Sep 30: Rain but Connie & Pa & I went to barracks show. Deanna Durbin in "I'll Be Yours'

Oct 1: Dance at the Barracks

Oct 2: Went to Connie's [Grover] for birthday cake tonight

Oct 3: Went for a walk. Went up with Ainsley M[unroe]. Didn't go to the show. Went to Uncle George's but the door was locked. Went to Conrad's. Had ice cream at Sylvia's. A man fixed our radio so we don't get the motor.

Oct 6: Agatha Pa & I went to Monestery with John McDonald and started on our trip

Oct 7: Arrived Montreal 7 p.m. approx. Nice trip. Marjorie & Leila here. They & Venie & Bill met us [all Armsworthy relatives from Belmont, Nova Scotia, children of Marion's aunt Hannah (Feltmate) and William Armsworthy. "Venie" was Lavinia -pf]

Oct 8: Agatha [Munroe] left for Toronto. We went to both stations and Eaton's. Angelo here tonight. [The Navy boy who had been billetted with Marion's family in Whitehead -pf]

Oct 10: Venie & I to Angelos. Met Yolanda & mother. Left Montreal for Porquis tonight. [Porquis Junction near Timmins in northern Ontario was where Marion's brother Jamie and his family lived. -pf]

Oct 11: Sat up in my seat all last night but slept some. Got into North Bay about 7:30 and should have changed trains but kept on and then had to go to Capreol. Conductor got me a room at the hotel and I stayed in all day. Bought my supper. Went to the station about 8 p.m. Lots of young people there. Boarded the train about 10.30 as it was late. Met a guy named Reuselle. Stayed at Ruth's room in North Bay. [Ruth Hawken was Jamie's sister-in-law -pf]

Oct 12: Left Mrs McCane's house this morning. Went from N. Bay to Cobalt. Saw Jamie there so got off and we drove with Arthur Hawken to Mr Hawken's house. Met Arthur's wife [Rene], Emma [(Hawken) MacLeod] & husband, and Ruth. Nice lake there. We left about 4 and got home to Porquis about 10.

[Marion stayed with her brother Jamie, his wife Hazel and young daughter Patsy for the winter until the following May. By October 17th she was already receiving the first of many regular letters from Agatha, Mama, and Connie back home. Her time at Jamie's was full of drives and sight-seeing, and many visits to and from a wide circle of new friends whom she thoroughly enjoyed, and they appreciated her playing and singing and her fancy work. She helped as best she could with house work, cooking and babysitting, as Jamie and Hazel ran a Co-op store as well as Jamie's shift work at Porquis Airport with the Department of Transport. Church and related activities such as the Women's Auxiliary and bazaars and so on, took a lot of attention. She started music lessons, travelling into Monteith to take them, and would regularly go to a friend's home to practice on the piano there. ]

Dec 31: Good Bye to 1947 with its many ups and downs. Its joys and its troubles. I think I've conquered them tho' and may 1948 be a better year.