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Stream Street 1909

June 7, 2020November 8, 2006 by John McCullagh

Even today, Stream Street residents are an eclectic mix of both sides of our divided community and it is clear from the above list – to sad individuals like myself who can read a person’s likely religious affiliation from their name! – that it was also so a century ago.

Meadow: Ball-Bearing Buggies 1

June 7, 2020November 6, 2006 by John McCullagh

Our foot ‘pads’ were cement pavings, two-broad to the edge of the kribben, and none too evenly laid, but this just added to the thrill, as we thundered along on our ball-bearing buggies.

Tiny Eggs

June 7, 2020November 3, 2006 by John McCullagh

I had to earn my 9d a week rent, as well as a living for myself so I started working for any one who’d have me. I was working about McComb’s, and Tom Loughlin’s and Eddie Magill’s.

Orphaned and homeless

June 7, 2020November 2, 2006 by John McCullagh

My mother died in childbirth when I was ten. She left three boys and three girls. My father coped for about a year ………..

Poyntzpass/Acton

June 7, 2020November 1, 2006 by John McCullagh

Tommy Morrow recorded his memories of the Poyntzpass area in the 1930s and 1940s.

‘There were 82 businesses then.

Hughie comes home

June 7, 2020October 17, 2006 by John McCullagh

Before Hughie’s wake could begin, Mum sat in the room fingering her rosary, just waiting. How often had she waited for the men in her life to come home? Consumed in herself as she remembered the past, she remained barely conscious of what was going on around her.

Home for Hughie’s funeral

June 7, 2020October 13, 2006 by John McCullagh

Fred Trimmer, my brother-in-law and some of my sisters met me at the airport in north Edmonton. We crossed the north Saskatchewan river and Saddle Lake Indian Reserve and I recalled the time when Felix and I worked Batoche’s farm and made hay on Duck Lake. And now I was returning for his funeral service!

Death in the Family

June 7, 2020October 11, 2006 by John McCullagh

One pleasant Sunday morning in June my wife Mary – then teaching at Etobicoke, outside of Toronto – and I decided to drive to Oshawa to visit a friend with whom I had worked at the sawmill in Vancouver.

Needham St 1907/09

June 7, 2020October 6, 2006 by John McCullagh

We do not usually respond to requests seeking help in Family History searches. We cannot -for if we did, we could do nothing else. For example, it took your editor five years of constant (part-time) work to complete his own!