For the Wright siblings, New Year’s in Canada in 1897 meant new beginnings with the neighbours and friends, farming adjustment to make it through the winter, and hopes for their future in Canada This post explores how the Wright family experienced their first New Year’s season in Canada…
This post is all about the Wright siblings first Christmas in Canada in 1896 and how they brought their English traditions to their small community. The Wright’s First Christmas in Canada Christmas in Canada in 1896 looked very different for the Wright siblings than what they had known…
In May’s letters from December 1896, she shares how settlers in Agassiz, British Columbia gathered for the Odd Fellows Ball: an all-night social event that offered warmth, music, and connection during a long Fraser Valley winter. In two letters home, May Wright describes dancing until dawn, winter travel…
In the winter of 1896, the Wright siblings, new settlers living at Hazeley Ranch in Agassiz, British Columbia, experienced their first true Canadian winter, and it was far colder than anything they had known in England. Their letters home vividly describe frozen rivers, dangerous travel conditions, and record-low…
Follow along the journey of the famous Bride Ship – the SS Tynemouth – as it sailed from England to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. This post is all about the journey of the men and women of the SS Tynemouth in 1862. Among them a man who would…