Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Diana CAMPBELL (1917-1918)

Diana
Beloved daughter of
Elign & Maud Campbell
Died May 5, 1918 Aged 8 Mos
Suffer the little children to come
to me
Source: Wild Rose North Cemetery (Wild Rose, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 14, Township 50, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Diana Campbell grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011. Clearer photograph taken May 2013.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Mark McGARVEY (1874-1911)

In
Memory Of
Mark
McGarvey
Died
Sep. 23, 1911
Age 37 Yrs.
At Rest1

Mark McGarvey has a story for "Mathew [sic] was killed in Shellbrook crossing the railway with team and sleigh."2 And I would love to read more, especially a newspaper report, but of course 1911 is the year before the town of Shellbrook's newspaper was established in 1912!

Sources:
1. Wild Rose North Cemetery (Wild Rose, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 14, Township 50, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Mark McGarvey grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011.
2. Footprints of Our Pioneers: Briarlea, Crutwell, Holbein, Nisbet, Rozilee, Wild Rose. Shellbrook: Wild Rose and Area History Book Committee, 1990. p. 555. Print.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Albert Edward PUGH (1920-2005)

Pugh
Albert Edward
Jan. 2, 1920  April 21, 2005
Forever Loved
Albert Edward Pugh died at age 85 years, 3 months, and 19 days.

Source: Wild Rose North Cemetery (Wild Rose, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 14, Township 50, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Albert Pugh grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

HARPER

Baby
Harper
Source: Wild Rose North Cemetery (Wild Rose, R.M. of Shellbrook no. 493, Saskatchewan, Canada; in SW Section 14, Township 50, Range 2, West of the 3rd Meridian), Harper (infant) grave marker, photographed by Alanna Carswell, July 2011

Sunday, February 3, 2013

That which we call Rozilee / by any other name would sound as sweet

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
- Juliet, Romeo & Juliet, Act II, Scene II1

Just sharing some Ancestry.ca indexing fun from the Canadian Census of the Prairie Provinces, 19162:

Capture from the Canadian Census
of the Prairie Provinces, 1916.

It was interpreted by various indexers on Ancestry.ca in nine different ways (so far):

Royile
Royilee
Rogiles
Rayilee
Royilu
Royiles
Royiler
Royilce
Royilie

Ah, sweet smelling spelling—Rozilee!

Sources:
1. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet, Project Gutenberg HTMl version(http://www.gutenberg.org : accessed 3 February 2013).
2. Library and Archives Canada. Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1916. Digital image online. (http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1916/001100-119.02-e.php?&document_id_nbr=1119&page_sequence_nbr=1&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=binr4r307642js6q5i453mppv4 : accessed 3 February 2013.)