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Mamma's Memoirs Final Part & Giveaway

4/22/2012

Mamma's Memoirs Final Part
by Anita Mae Draper

This is the 4th and final post of the memoirs of Tyyne Henrekson.
Part 1 - Mamma's early years in Finland
Part 2 - Meeting and marrying Pappa and emigrating to Canada
Part 3 - Early Life in Canada and Birth of the Children

We left off in 1950 when Pappa and Mamma and their 6 children moved out of the 3 room log house and into the new house, pictured below.

1950 The New House, on the right is a corner of the old log house.

In Mamma's Memoirs, she didn't write about this period - probably because she was too busy raising the kids and running the farm. If you recall, they had 10 cows and were selling their milk and cream. So the first half of this post is pictures of the children during these years.

Any writing you see on the photos are in Mamma's own hand

The Kakkonen Girls: Miriam, Taimi, Mary

Mary, 13 years old

Mimi 13, Billy 8, Paul 5, and Mamma

Mary 14, Mimi 13, Paul 8

Mary or Taimi? This photo is in dispute as both lay claim to it.

Mary at 16 yrs in Hearst

Mary at 17 at Talbot's General Store and Post Office, Ryland, ON

Miriam and Taimi at Ryland Train Station, late 50's

When the girls got married, I took two Children's Aid boys from Kapuskasing so we had five little school boys. When the Honey boys were 16 years old, I told the lady (a social worker) to look for a place for them. During the summer the boys should be learning a man's job.
My husband was always working at the camp so he wasn't at home to teach them. The boys were taken to Cochrane for work. They were very good boys, Bill and Bob Honey.

After that I put an ad in the Finnish Canadian Newspaper. For the homeless I would take in feed and care for.

Accident:

We had three girls and three boys. But after the Honey boys were taken to Cochrane in 1958, we had an accident on the highway, when the gaspipeline was brought to Hearst.

My husband was driving our Ferguson tractor and he had eleven bags of potatoes. Our 15 year old boy, Billy, was sitting on top of the potatoes. From behind, just before the road at
mile 7, came a pipeline tractor trailer very fast. It was Saturday, the young men were partying in the car. The car drove beside, but the long trailer went over our tractor, when the driver wanted to turn left.

The men from the car saw the quick bang throw my husband off in the air (he was driving the tractor). Billy's legs were badly damaged. A neighbour, Mrs. Mouland called for an ambulance. An ambulance was there soon. The doctor amputated Billy's legs, but he never woke up. He was brought to the same room with his dad, and he watched the boy die. My
husband also was hurt badly. But I am glad that Billy died instead of being a cripple without legs. He was a Christian, ready for heaven.

Conclusion:

If I could count all my family now -- but they are so far. I don't even know all the names of the great, great grandchildren.

My sister, Bonnie Margaret, 1 yr old, who was born on Mamma & Pappa's farm in 1956.

That concludes Mamma's handwritten Memoirs, but it's not the end of Mamma's story...

In 1980 while still living on the farm, Mamma and Pappa celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. The bulletin board behind them is Mamma's memory board. Photos of children and grandchildren and cards would be put here. Every morning, Mamma would touch each one and pray for that child.

In 1987 we had a family reunion at the Ryland farm when Mamma and Pappa's oldest daughter, Taimi, came back to Canada on a visit from England where she had moved with her young family in the 60's. I used the opportunity to take 2 precious photos - the first being an updated photo of the 3 Kakkonen sisters...

3 Kakkonen sisters, (L to R oldest to youngest) Taimi, Mary, Miriam, 1987

... and the second, a 4 generation photo with Mamma - Tynne, her 2nd oldest child - Mary who happens to be my mom, me - Anita Mae, and my eldest child - Crystal Anne.

4 Generations (L to R) Mary, Mamma, Crystal Anne, Anita Mae in 1987

In 1992, Mamma wrote her Memoirs - the very same ones I've portrayed over these 4 posts.

In 1995 after almost 70 yrs on their Ryland farm, Mamma and Pappa moved six hours west to a Finnish retirement community in the city of Thunder Bay on the northwestern shore of Lake Superior.

Pappa passed away a few months later.

Tynne Hendrickson, 89 yrs old, 1997

Mamma went to see Jesus in 2003 at the age of 94 yrs.

It seems only right to end this post the way we started... in Mamma's own words...

Grandma Henrekson (Kakkonen) Memoirs -- in English
other books are in Finn language --
I'm not good in English writing -- Never went to school --
only learn a little at home from my children --
-- Thank you Children --
1992.

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Anita Mae Draper: Mamma's Memoirs Part 2 & Giveaway

3/18/2012

Anita Mae Draper is retired from the Canadian Armed Forces and lives on the prairie of southeast Saskatchewan, Canada with her hubby of 30 plus years and 2 of their 4 kids.
She writes western stories set on the prairies of Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming. Anita Mae is represented by Mary Keeley of Books & Such Literary Agency.

This is Part 2 of the memoirs of Anita Mae's Finnish grandmother. Read Part 1 here.

Mamma's Memoirs Part 2
by Anita Mae Draper

These memoirs are taken from the hand-written booklet, Grandma Henrekson (Kakkonen) Memoirs--in English (1992).

In her memoirs, Mamma glossed over some of the facts that had a profound impact on her life... things she mentioned repeatedly as we were growing up... things she didn't want to forget. And so for those times, I'm including additional notes written by Mamma's eldest daughter, Taimi, who is my mother's sister.

Mamma had a Finnish accent and although she spoke English well, she those words ending in 'ed' as a separate syllable. Thus walked became walk-ed, etc. In the same fashion, we pronounced her name with a deep emphasis on the word 'mum' then carried the 'm' for a beat before completing the 'ma' and cutting the 'a' off sharply, as in Mummmm-ma. And Pappa is pronounced with the accent on the first part too, so it becomes, Pup-pa.

We left off at the end of Part 1 with Mamma (Tyyne) on the brink of adulthood...

My Sister Aino asked me to go with her to visit our auntie's place. So we went...

.....And I found a man there.

We wrote letters every week. He came to give me a ring. I was working in a new place for only one month, when he came in November with his mom to marry me.

Aimo Kakkonen,22 and Tyyne Vasarainen, 17 approx 1925

I was 17, Aimo 22, and we settled to live in his home. He worked with horses, I with cows as a maid. So when we decided to have our own home, we had no money as we didn't get paid for working for Aino's parents. Now they had to hire women to do milking and other chores.

We took skis and traveled a long distance to Aimo's sisters' place. She owned some money to Aimo for the work he had done earlier for her. We took the train to Suojarvi. Our cousin Evert Leivo lived there. Leivos' had a new house, only two rooms were ready. So we
slept in the attic. They didn't charge us for rent. We worked at the sawmill--but one morning in July we found the sawmill burned down. Only ashes and chunks of iron were left.

Everyone hurried to other sawmills to be hired, but we bought nice clothes and went back to Aimo's home. They welcomed us, because it was haying time. We ate a lot of fish. Next winter my husband and his brother August went out to look for work. They found work at Suojoki and rented an apartment. My husband called for me to join them and cook for
them. However, his family didn't like to let me go. But I walked to the railway station on the second day of Christmas to join my husband. So we travelled back and forth until 1929. Now there was no more work anywhere.

My First Child--And the Trip to
Canada:

Our cousin and my husband came to Canada in spring 1930. Leivo's family came in July. Hildo sold their house and left some money in a bank in Helsinki. I didn't know anything about the money. I had my baby two weeks after my husband had left for Canada. It was stillborn.

Aunt Taimi wrote about this time in Mamma's life:
You must remember after Tyyne Vasarainen & Aimo Johannes Kakkonen were married in Finland, that was very poor times... Mr. Evert Leivo wife Hilda had already gone to Canada,& promised Pappa that they will find him work there as Barber as Pappas profession was cutting hair & photography. So after some time Pappa received a ticket - ( for 1). Mamma was left in Finland, pregnant. All the women said that they all lost their husbands that way, and they never came back !!
Mamma cried so much that she lost her baby girl, naming her Taimi.

Poem Dedicated to Baby

I was sick for a while. Summertime I worked for farmers, but prepared to go after my dear Aimo to Canada. I had very little money left, but I made it to Helsinki.

I went to the Scandinavian Line office and said: "I am ready to go to Canada."

A man said: "How much money do you have?"

"I don't have any money."

"Why didn't your husband send money?"

"He doesn't have any."

"Don't you have anyone else there?"

"My cousin Evert Leivo's family in Hearst, Ontario, Canada."

"Come back tomorrow."

I went to the same place next day. The man said, "Let's wait a little".

We went to a bank on the same street. It was a big surprise to me! I had to just write my name and I got the TICKET!

Rail to Turku, then little boat to Stockholm in Sweden, over to Gothenburg in train.

Then in October to boat Drottningholm and started the ocean trip nine more days until Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Then I was sick five days.

The SS Drottningholm, sporting the livery of the Swedish American Line

Landed:

But when I got to land, the officers stopped me, because I should have had $25.00 as I was coming to Canada. I only had $12.00 that my dear husband had sent me. The other passengers went to catch the train, I was put into quarantine for three days. I was so
glad--the bed didn't shake anymore like it had on the boat over the Atlantic Ocean at winter time.

After three days a Finnish man came to tell us:

'Ready to travel on train....All Aboard!'

We were taken to a store first with other women. No one of us could speak English. A French store keeper was showing us shelves with goods. What shall we take? Everyone opened their purses wide, showing that we had no money. The woman just laughed and gave everyone
something.

It was a Salvation Army Store, and Christmas was coming soon. She gave me a white apron and blue necklace. I later gave the present to Leiv's daughter in Hearst.

Waiting for the train in Halifax Train Station.

Steam Locomotive heading from Halifax, Nova Scotia, through Toronto to Hearst, Ontario.

At the railroad station in Hearst were Aimo and Evert and also a man from the Government. I spent one month with my husband in the bush camp. I wrote to a friend in Toronto. She wrote back, that it was possible to get work there. So we decided, that I would go, because the only work for my husband in Hearst area was bush camps, no work in town. I went to Toronto alone and got a job as a maid. I paid my ticket to Leivos' through mail. After nine months my husband came to Toronto in box car.

Aunt Taimi wrote:
On boat to Halifax , she met a Jewish couple who took her in as a maid - getting a room for her in a rooming house , close to her work. Mamma recalls often "she loved it there" learned how to cook , etc. That was in Toronto, after she came from Halifax by train. They thought she was a single lady, & only spoke Finn. Pappa would come & visit from Hearst by "boxcar" in those days. Pappa was working in Hearst as a Barber - & then came the 30s depression!! Pappa had no job, & came to stay with Mamma, as she had work , until she got pregnant. She kept herself tied up around her tummy, so it wouldn't show - until one day they guessed & she was fired. Mamma had the baby girl at Toronto General Hospital named her Taimi like the baby she lost in Finland - that was ME! Mamma was able to get another job as maid & cook for another family & Pappa would look after the baby. He said Taimi slept the best in her baby carriage on Eatons' corner, where all the trolley busses etc made lots of noise!!

Second Baby:

Our baby was born in Toronto, August 10, 1933. So I couldn't work. Amio was there winter time. He took care of our 3 month old baby, so I could work by days. He went to Hearst in the spring and built a home on our homestead in the bush.

When I came to Hearst with one year old Taimi, the first winter we both got jobs at Viita Camp. I was cooking, and Aimo helped with horses. They had three teams, I mean six horses. They hauled wood to a siding all winter. In spring we went to our own camp in bush.

Aunt Taimi wrote:
Then word came that there was a bush camp job opening & they need a cook, in REESOR near MATTICE so they went there. Mamma was the cook to 6 men & Pappa had 2 teams of horses & I was by then 2 yrs old. (Canadian Government) helped them get started. Mamma told us that when the men came to eat, as they sat on benches at the table Taimi would take all their tobacco pouches out of their back pockets & put them in a can in the shed to make pies/bread etc. The men spoiled me, I'm sure! Then she said Taimi was lost - they all went to look for her & thinking she could of wandered into the bush that had wild animals. Then someone found me sleeping behind some flour/potato bags.

Taimi and her kids beside Pappa & Mamma's old homestead house circa 1960.

Mary (my mom, and Pappa and Mamma's second daughter) said via phone:
The original homestead was on the east side of Hearst, 6 miles from town. Pappa only paid $10 an acre because it was all bush without a road. Mamma didn't like it because she was worried about getting out in the winter if something happened to the baby.
She saw an ad in the Toronto newspaper about a farm for sale in Ryland, 7 miles west of Hearst. Finland has lots of good rye growing land, so Mamma said that was a good place to live. They paid $250 to the Catholic church for the farm. It contained one log building where a priest had lived and held mass, but was no longer needed.

After the peelwood time we bought a farm at Ryland, but we still went to the bush camp for the hauling time. Taimi was two years old when we bought the Ryland farm. There was a small barn and a three room house. We bought two cows in the spring from a neighbour, a widow, Mrs. Halgren. At fall Aimo bought two horses and hauled pulpwood to a siding. He
had to hire a man to do the cooking, because I had cows and a child to be cared for at the farm. First we sold some butter to Hearst. They established a creamer in Hearst, so we sent cream there and got cream checks. Hearst was 7 miles from the homestead.

Ryland farm cows, circa 1950

I made a garden, and got potatoes and all garden vegetables of our own. Then the highway was made, and we were able to send milk to the town of Geraldton two times a week in an eight gallon can. Hearst is 123 miles from Geraldton.

The name of Kakkonen changed into the English language as when Taimi went to
school, she said her last name was Henrekson, so it was ...that is how it was changed to this day.

Aunt Taimi wrote:
Pappas' name was Aimo Johannes Kakkonen & the Canadian neighbours couldn't
say it right - they called him"Kaka-nen" to him meaning "poo-ish" & that to
him felt dirty, so renamed himself John (after Johannes) & Hendrickson after
"Henri" his father, & son.

To be continued...

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For the history buffs, I'll be posting information on my writing blog about things Mamma encountered on her trip from Sweden to Hearst. This will include the:
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- Canadian National train

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Anita Mae Draper: Mamma's Memoirs & Giveaway

2/12/2012

Surprise! I'm Anita Mae Draper and I'm the story behind this blog. I've re-scheduled this week's author, so you're stuck with me. I'm not published yet, but I am the author of several manuscripts, I have a memory to share, and I have a giveaway. So, I hope you'll stay and visit while I share my heritage with you.
Let me know what you think of this post. If there's interest in memoirs or letters of bygone days, it will be an option for guest authors.

Mamma's Memoirs
by Anita Mae Draper

If you mention Finland in my vicinity, I'll get a dreamy, faraway look on my face. No, I've never been to that Scandinavian country, but my early life centered around it because that's where my maternal grandparents originated.

Mamma left a small book of memoirs behind when she went to heaven in 2003, so instead of me telling you about her life, I'll let her do it herself. One note though, Mamma's 1st language was Finnish and she carried a heavy Finn accent throughout her life. If you find grammatical and spelling mistakes (as you will) in the following account, please excuse them. I'm presenting Mamma's memoirs the way she wrote them... mistakes and all.

Grandma Henrekson (Kakkonen) Memoirs--in English
other books are in Finn language--
I'm not good in English--Never went to school--
only learn a little at home from my children--
Thank you Children
(1992)

I have lots to write about my own life. But this book first goes to my parents. They worked hard all their life and--kept poor all the time--Why was this?

First my dad born when his mother died--

Grandfather had a good house and lots of land.

But when his first baby was born and mother died, he have to take a new wife and they had lots of children. So they told my dad to make his own house, so he did push land top of a hill --

There was a lake down below but very deep steps down so he start to make well. Borrowed money for paid helper ticking well...

No water in 3 of them ...

It took many years, could not pay back the money. There were already 7 children. Mother worked hard.

I was born on February 16, 1908, in the village of Kiteenlahti, Selateenmaki, Kitee, North Karelia. The city of Joensuu is the centre of the North Karelia region. There in my father's house I had a happy life until springtime, 1917. I was 9 years old, when everything was sold in Auction Sale.

My father was not home. This was the time of the First World War. My father went behind Lake Laatokka to work as a carpenter in order to be able to pay his debts. He had Eino, his older son with him. Then the war started and they couldn't come home.

Back row L to R: Tyyne (Mamma), Antti Vasarainen (Mamma's father), Eino (Mamma's brother), 2 younger bros. Front row L to R: Wihelmina nee Parkkonen (Mamma's mother). Hilma (Eino's wife), Hilman (Hilma's mother). Taken at Kitee, Finland.

We Lost Our Home:

So the man to whom my father owed money, sold everything from us--the land, cattle, house. But no one wanted the children! I was nine years old. We looked out the window, when three men walked all cows away. Mother cried. We had no place to go. The men put locks on doors, after we were outside of our home, so we could not get in again. Our neighbor let us live in a cool storage building.

My younger brother was only 3 months old, my brother Armas was three years. Between Armas and me there had been Jenny. She went to look at the cattle by the fence, and a cow picked her up with her horns and she died. I missed Jenny, but I know she didn't suffer all this time.

Hard Life:

My mother worked on the fields, and I took care of the baby. My sister Aino was 12 years old. She was taken as a baby sitter for another family. She was also good at weaving the loom. When my father and Eino got back, Eino went to look for work in Viipuri, but my father looked around all summer for a place where we could stay for the winter. He found a very small house for sale at the village of Ruppovaara.

We moved there just before the school started at the Fall. I had to walk 4 Km morning and night to school and back. So I was able to finish my schooling and god a Diploma, when I was 14.

Mamma's school in Finland

Back of Mamma's school photograph.

All summers were wonderful. I worked for farmers. They had good food! In September we picked berries and for two weeks we picked potatoes before the school started in October.

In our little house the two boys and I slept in the only bed. There was no room for another bed, so my parents slept on the floor. Spring time my mother started to do weaving. Father made a small weaving loom to fit in the corner of the room. Now my parents had to sleep right in the front of the door. The bed clothes had to be taken outside for the day. Father was digging wells winter time, but summer time he made roofs. I helped him summer time running on the roof!

My First Real Job:

When I was fifteen I had a really hard job with another family. I had to milk cows and wash clothes.

In that year I went to Church School It helped me alot. I forgot to tell that when I was twelve years old, there were Mission girls (ladies) in my village. I loved to go to their meetings. There are all kind of obstacles, when I didn't know, what to do, I prayed to God to forgive me all my sins, and He helped me all these years. I gave God my life, and wanted to please Him in every way. I became a Christian, born-again Christian.

At The Saastamoinens'

When I was sixteen I went to Wartaila. There I worked first for the Saastamoinens'.

Mr. Saasta-moinen was in charge of the railroad. They had three girls who were in school They also had a son, David, who was fifteen years old. He had a white horse. Every Friday he went with his horse to the railroad station and gave a ride to the men, who came by train to sel their goods at the Market Place. I took care of the three cows they had. I milked the cows, separated the milk and made butter. Mrs. Sastamoinen baked and cooked for us all.

At The Waananens':

For the summer the cows were taken to the pasture for from the Saastamooinens'. There was a woman nearby who did the milking and made butter, so they didn't need me anymore.

Now I got a job at another Christian work place at the Waananen Bakery. There were three girls. One girl was needed in the barn in the morning. Mr. Waananen himself usually did baking, but those days were no machines. Five o'clock in the morning we two girls did the mixing of dough with four hands. Then we let it rise. Next we worked the dough on the table and made rings on it. They were allowd to rise again and then boiled quickly and put in the oven. When the rings had baked to light brown color they were taken out of the oven and dropped into a large basket. After everything was baked we started stringing the rings.

18 rings were stringed together, that was one kilogram. I carried them to the storage room, where they were kept until the storekeeper got them out to the store to be sold.

Water Baptism At Lehmo:

I wanted to go to Church Conference to be baptized. The Waananens' let me go in September to Lehmo. When I cam back, they had hired a male baker and two older girls so they didn't need me any more. I decided to go home. My Sister Aino asked me to go with her to visit our auntie's place.

So we went...

.....And I found a man there.

to be continued...

Notes

1 kilogram = 2.2 pounds
1 kilometre = 0.6 miles
4 kilometres = 2.5 miles

Mamma says:
"ticking well" = digging well
"18 rings were stringed together, that was one kilogram" = pretzels or bagels? I'll have to ask.

- Mamma pronounced any words ending in 'ed' as a separate syllable so that walked became walk-ed, etc. In the same fashion, we pronounced her name with a deep emphasis on the word 'mum' then carrying the 'm' for a beat before completing the 'ma' and cutting the 'a' off sharply. Mummmm-ma

Since there's only one copy of Mamma's Memoirs and I don't have it, I'd like to thank my cousin, Nancy Lou Roy for posted much of this information on family genealogy sites.

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