Letter recalling Agnes Macphail
Description
- Creator
- Marjorie McKechnie, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Documents
- Description
- Private letter to Donna Mann describes Marjorie McKechnie's childhood memories of Agnes Macphail visiting the Acheson farm at Proton Station and humourous anecdote about Agnes Macphail's impromptu address to a group of farmers from atop a manure spreader.
- Inscriptions
- Sun. Apr. 8 [n.y.]
Dear Donna,
Have been reading with interest your efforts to revive Agnes MacPhail's [sic] memory. As a young person tales of Agnes were of interest to me, and I recall her visits to my grandfather's farm at Proton Station. (Robert G. Acheson) Grandpa had 6 daughters, five being school teachers, all taught well in the art of eating graciously. Agnes loved Grandma Acheson's gravy and much to the surprise of these five daughters would take a piece of home made bread and slosh it around on her plate to gather all the stray drops of gravy.
My husband, Jack, loved to tell Priceville jokes. At a Priceville picnic Agnes was asked to "speak". There was no ready elevated place from which she could address the crowd so she mounted a near-by [sic] manure spreader and announced that it was her first time to speak from a Conservative platform.
I wish you well in your project. Regret my writing is so poor, but arthritis in my right hand does affect it.
Best wishes,
Marjorie McKechnie
Hanover Senior's Community - Date of Original
- April 8 [no year]
- Date Of Event
- 1910-1954
- Dimensions
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Width: 21.5 cm
Height: 28 cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- DM1
- Collection
- Private
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 44.2031277580157 Longitude: -80.630464553833
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- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Marjorie McKechnie
- Copyright Holder Contact Information
- Contact agnesmacphail@greyhighlandspubliclibrary.com
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- Copyright Marjorie McKechnie
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