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I asked Mom if I put a picture in here if she'd tell a story about it, so here it is:
Labels: Grandpa Robins, history
posted by lisaandrichard at 10:33 AM
Monday, April 06, 2009
Labels: Grandpa Robins, history
posted by lisaandrichard at 10:33 AM
7 Comments:
oh, what a good idea!
Come on, Mom, give us the story. And we want stories for all the others too. Please.
thi was in 1937 (I'm pretty sure) and the depression had been on for 7+ yrs, so folks were trying to find ways to make some cash - things were tough, if you grew a crop you couldn't sell it, and while on the farms and homesteads we had all our own food, cash was pretty non-exitant. So a group of fellows, including my dad (Duke Robins) my uncle Jack McQuarrie, Joe Tyler and I think 3 or 4 others built this scow in Peace River, to go to the "gold rush" in Yellowknife. They poled and floated up the Peace and Slave rivers to Great Slave Lake (or maybe it was Gr Bear) and accross to Yellowknife. The trip was fairly hard and a bit dangerous - I know they had to portage around rapids and waterfalls and that scow was not light. Of course they did not find any gold and they all returned after the summer, except uncle Jack who stayed there and worked in the Pitchblend mine and also on the lake barges - during a windstorm he was blown off a barge into the freezing water and drowned
I remember when Dad left - he and Mom met us kids after school and he kissed us goodbye and we all bawled our eyes out! I do not however remember him returning and can't remember how long he was away. I wish Bill was still alive as I think he could remember more that me. Any thats the tale of the scow on the river
Mom that is a great memory. And a great idea of Lisa's to get the story captured. Was Jack older or younger than Grandma?
Uncle Jack was Moms youngest brother - I think he was born in 1912 so was only 30 when he died
That was great Mom. OK Lisa next picture.
Mom, that is very cool, it is a very interesting story. I would like to hear the one about the school Grandpa helped build. Put that picture on Lisa
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