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1911 Courtship: Jul 9 Dear Ethel

6/3/2013

 
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Hoodoos, Dinosaur Valley, Drumheller, Alberta, 1939, by Vogue Photography Studio. Courtesy of the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
This week's letter is missing a huge chunk of writing, but there's enough there for me to see that Noah is comparing something to the Hoodoos. Hoodoos are weather-beaten land formations created by years of the wind carving into sandstone. Dinosaur Valley in Drumheller, Alberta is the closest batch of Hoodoos to Noah and are about a modern 5-6 hour drive west of Grand Coulee. 



Author of Letter: Noah Clement Draper (24 yrs old)
Dated: July 9 (1911)
Addressed to: Miss E. Nelson, Dear Ethel (21 yrs old)
Mailed from:  Grand  Coulee, Sask
Relationship: Courting
Profession: Farmer 
Writing instrument: Fine point pen, Black ink, but looks blue-grey in places 
Writing Paper: Thick, textured, linen-like paper, 9 inches x 6.5 inches. Paper is folded in half, written on front and back like a book, but inside, paper is turned sideways and written across short length and down both pages. 

This week's letter is missing a huge chunk which I couldn't find anywhere in Ethel's treasure box.


People/Places mentioned in this letter:
- *Veda 16 yr old daughter of Joe Perrault & Noah's sister, Eva Amelia
- *Fanny - Joe's niece 
- *Sadie Nelson - Ethel's 16 yr old sister

- Bell Plaine (Belle Plaine)
- Moos Jaw (Moose Jaw)


Phrase: You could have bought us for a song

* Look under the Categories/Labels in the right column for more on posts on the above people.
**More info under Genealogical Notes
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Grand Coulee, July 9
Miss. E. Nelson,
      Belhaven, Ont.
Dear Ethel; -
       Received your letter Friday
and was glad to hear you were
well. Hope this finds you the
same. We are all O.K. and buisy
as setting hens. intend to
do the cement work this week
             ing to put in the forms
                  w and then go into
                        Tuesday for half a
                             and make short
                               the carpenters will
                                       I guess they
                                        ed so much
                                      et weather it
                                     mmer I ever
                                   ained every Sat.
                                 onth.

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     Did not go up to Bell Plaine on the 1st on
account of rain but we went up the 4th and
got beat for the first time this summer
score was 12 to 3. say you could have bot.
us for a song. and we had about 30 or 40
people along to yell for us. Ha. Ha. I took
Ved        Fanny along & after the game I told
                         were the Hoodoos. Ha Ha.
                             ine comes down here tomorrow
                                      the last League game and
                                         at we (will try) do to them
                                            still after the game &
                                               re on the envelope
                                               nt beat us to bad.
                                                we the letter open
                                                de. Ha. Ha.
                                                  de is in Moos Jaw
                                                  ill not be able to get
                                                  ld sure like to go as

                                                  passing away and
                                               s fine & I hope it keeps
                                    . Eh. I tell you a fellow
                       more like working when he can
see a chance for returns & things look
promising now. Oh say I bot a cow
Tuesday gave $60. for her & I sure have all
the milk I can drink. Ha. Ha. 
     Well little girl I wish I were driving
up the fifth just now. oh say I guess
there would be no church to night for
us. eh. say. it seems queer to be writing
you all the time & not seeing you

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but I guess that will not last
much longer. hope not anyway.
     So Sadie is going to teach in
the West eh? Well I dont blame
her. just look at the difference in
the salary out here they get from
$6.60 to a thousand Dollars and
do not have near as big a school
to look after. fifteen to Twenty
Five is a good sized country
school of course they
in the towns, but I g
would be satisfied in
for a start.
      Well Ethel I gues
to ring off and so
space for the big
night. it has started
So. good Bye for the
Your lonely. Lover. 
PS Well we were beaten a

Genealogy Notes

In last week's letter of 1911 Courtship: July 9 Dear Noah Ethel mentioned the heat they were enduring especially since they had to do extra baking and cooking to feed all the men who came to help build the barn. The heat wave took its toll in Canada and the United States as can be seen in the following snippets. Location is Newmarket, Ontario unless otherwise stated.

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The Newmarket Era. July 7, 1911, Pg 6
From Newmarket Era, but under:
TORONTO NEWS
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The Newmarket Era. July 7th, 1911 - Page: 7
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The Newmarket Era. July 14th, 1911 - Page: 3
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The Newmarket Era. July 14th, 1911 - Page: 6
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The Newmarket Era. July 14, 1911, Pg 6


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The Newmarket Era. July 14th, 1911 - Page: 6
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The Newmarket Era. July 14th, 1911 - Page: 5



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The Newmarket Era. July 14, 1911 Pg 6


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The Newmarket Era. July 14th, 1911 - Page: 1


And on the same page, this reality:

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The Newmarket Era. July 14, 1911, Pg 1
   The heat on Sunday was fierce--
100 in the shade is reported.

   Sunday and Monday last were rec-
ord breakers for heat.   Fancy the
thermometer bobbing around 103 deg.
Monday was Toronto's hottest day in
more than half a century.  Three peo-
ple became victims of the heat. --
Nearly all Sunday night people were
lying about the lawns and door-steps.
During Saturday, Sunday and Monday
43 children died in the city. The
same days in Montreal there were
151 deaths among children. 

   New York, July 11. - Yesterday a
dozen victims were added to the toll
and scores of prostrations were re-ported. The death list at 11 o'clock
last night had 18 victims on it, the 
count including the entire metropol-
itan district. Prostrations numbered
above 200.

   Chicago, Ill., July 11. - Heat deaths
and prostrations continued yesterday,
although the maximum temperature
was only 89 degrees. Twelve deaths,
superintended by heat, and many
prostrations were reported.

   ...Two hundred people died from
sunstroke in New York last week.
   ...1200 horses died in five days of
New York's hot spell last week. 


"Too Bloomin' Hot."
   Three hundred immigrants arrived
from England Tuesday. WOne hun-
dred and seventy-five remained in
Toronto.
   Several farmers who were on hand
looking for help, failed to induce any
of them to accept a position on the
farm-
   "It is too blooming hot in this
country," was the answer one man
made.
   The farmer was so disappointed
that he replied with some vigor.
   "By gosh, it will be cold enough
for you in a little while."

   The hot weather this week is liter-
ally cooking the raspberries which
promised a very large yield. The
gooseberry crop is also burnt so as
to be unsaleable. Young strawberry
beds are in a bad way for rain. Cur-
rants are not more than half a crop.
Plums are a complete failure, and ap-
ples are but a very small crop. Hay
was a short crop, and unless rain will
come soon barley will not be worth
cutting.

   No service in the Presbyterian
Church Sunday evening on account
of the extreme heat.

   Mrs. Jane Crew, who died in this
city last week was in her one hundred
and third year. Her death was caus-
ed by the intense heat wave. She has
been a widow for fifty-seven years,
never wore eyeglasses in her life, and
whenever feeling unwell, always took
pure cold water as a cureall. She
was the mother of eight children,
three of whom are still living. There
are Twenty-nine grandchildren, and
twenty-two great grandchildren.
   It seems incredible that a city with
100,000 population, should use 60,000
gallons of water in one day, but the
official record indicates that Toron-
to's citizen took that amount from
the reservoir, on Tuesday of last
week.
   Eighty-nine deaths were registered
during the first four days of July --
very many having succumbed from the
fearful heat which prevailed.

   Heat prostration the past 2 weeks
beat all previous records in this city,
and the death toll among children
from heat has never been equalled.
Taimi Discala link
6/5/2013 01:09:34 am

Oh what a Story ! So many people dying in that heat , very sad . I feel also for the 1200 horses that also lost their lives.Where could've they gone for shelter ? There couldn't have been any !
All very sad & Worth telling - Many thanks !

Anita Mae
6/9/2013 11:22:30 am

Hi Auntie T, I should have known you'd feel empathy for the horses. :)

As for the heat, many of the horses probably did have shelter, but a city is a horrid place to live during a heat wave because the cement and concrete from the buildings and roads absorb the heat and intensify it. So 100 degrees in the shade in the rural area where Ethel lives would be hotter still in the city - even under the shelter. Especially if the shelter was enclosed with no chance of a breeze going through.


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