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Memories of Early Days at Lorne Street School Edinburgh
A reminiscence of childhood at Lorne Street School in Edinburgh describing annual class shifts under London inspectors, winter ice slides, a janitor with a salt covered slide, army drill Fridays, and compulsory schooling through Standard VI with quarterly fees. The narrator notes emigrant uncles and parents moving to Manitoba in 1880 1882, the Manitoban voyage, homesteading, CPR construction, and early settler families arriving near Minnedosa Oakner and Fort Ellice area with a fortuitous tea on an overturned washtub.
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Lorne Street School
Edinburgh
London
Army
Manitoba
George
George Scott
Montreal
Leith
Winnipeg
Brandon
Phillip Kerr
Uncle George
C.P.R
Regina
John Riddell
Robertsons
Allans
Howies
Whytes
Leakes
Andersons
Kerrs
Milnes
Thomas Riddell
Fort Ellice
St. Lazare
Minnedosa
Oakner
Assiniboine