File #44121: "James Cameron 1893 Diary 5.pdf"

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{page one} Mr James Cameron Island 18 Feby 1893 James Hugh's Birth Day 1855 cutting stove Wood Leander went to for the mail 19th Leander and Annie went to Dundee E Wind stopt till next Day Moses Lemay here with Leanders Watch turned stormy to night 20th Leander came to night very cold to Day and to night Molly had a calf this Morning put a a (another Barrel for ashes hurted the Back of my hand 21st Fine went up to the Bush E Wind to night Drifting 22nd Washington's Birth Day stormy E Wind snowing Drifting turned Fine sawing stove Wood 23rd Fine very Bad with a soar Back sawed some Wood cut a Waterhole to the Bottom no Water ice awful thick over 3 Feet Wrote a Letter For the Toronto Weekly news did not send it to Day 24th St Matthias Day Fine Frosty W Wind Stanley sick a Bad cold Sawing Stovewood Dan Spinks here to night For Leander to go to a Bee Drawing stones to the Wharf {page two} Mr James Cameron Island 25th of Feby 1893 Fine Day Leander went to Hamiltons Stone Bee Gave him the Letter to put in the post office with a Dollar in it For the Toronto Weekly news to be Registered But he did not put it in the office to Day 26th Leander came Fine Day 27th Fine cool Frosty sawing stove Wood 28th E Wind Fine some Rain and Hail Leander went to Dundee took the Letter with him to put in the PO Summerstown This is the Last Day of Feby Bought soda 8 Tea 3 lb 1 Dollar Postage and Register 8 cents 1st of March St Davids Day The Festival of Welsh Taffy came in Kind of Like a Lion Windy West snow Flurries not very well Got a Lead Pencil 2nd W Wind Windy Tried iron-wood for colds cutting stove wood Water very Low have to go out in the channel to get Water Froze to the Bottom all Bad with colds coughing and Barking 3rd a very Fine Day Went to Lewis Lisors seen a new comer there Marys Baby Boy Barnhart Barnharts Wife and children came there to Day at stovewood Drew the Marsh hay from the Marsh and the Little S 4th Fine E Wind Leander crofsed with the colt in the cutter to Hamiltons the First Time the colt crofsed the ice Cleavland in to Day
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