There are 3 or 4 letters written to my mother, who would have been about 15yrs old in 1935. She had answered requests from several girls in Canada who wanted a Scottish penpal and had a short correspondence period with a Jessie Roebuck. Her mother wrote too. The mother was Scottish and had been born Joan McIntyre in Kippen, Stirlingshire. This is where my mother was and so the letter mentions memories about local people around Kippen from 40 or 50 years earlier e.g. Dr McDairmid and shopkeepers McQueen, McDougal, Dunn, Cooper, asking if the families were still there. McNicols at Port of Menteith too.
She mentions her McIntyre cousins in the schoolhouse in Aberfoyle, a sister in Perth and some information about a nephew Peter Clark working for Lord Scone.
Her own children in Canada seem to be
Violet married to a farmer called Derbyshire;
Mae married name Park living in Regina;
Marion a nurse;
John died age 4yrs;
Jessie at boarding School at Assinaboia;
Arthur school 15yrs
There is a fair bit about the hard life she had in Saskatchewan in 30's.
If these are of any interest to anyone please get in touch.
Mary
