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1930 Diary Selections - Coming Home
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The second of two pages [page1] of selections of the actual diary entries made by Hilda Krantz Beitel, my mother, in 1930. She and her mother were on a trip to Canada from Oregon by train to visit relatives. This page shows entries from the trip home to Jordan, Oregon. The selected entries show sketches she drew, as well as her handwriting. Her German background shows in her handwriting as an occasional letter "t" in the Old German Script in the midst of the English.
-Elizabeth
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Odd Delivery Wagon
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| September 6, 1930, 9:45am, in Lacombe, Alberta, a little north of Red Deer, on the way toward Calgary. Sketch of "An odd delivery wagon".
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Left: "9:45 - Lacombe - In daylight it is a cheerful looking town. (An odd delivery wagon " - [followed by a sketch of a wagon]
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While heading south towards Calgary this odd wagon caught Mom's attention enough for her to draw a picture of it. Seems to resemble the carts around train depots for hauling luggage? Here is another of those German "t's", in the word "daylight".
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Rocky Mountains
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Right: "9:20 - Hosmer - Mt. McDugal [followed by an outline of a mountain] There is not enough here to even call it a village.
Elk River is following us around the mountain.
Next big mountain is Mt. Hosmer [on the same line is a faint outline with several peaks.]
[On the next line is a bumpy rounded outline] Mt. Fernie, - next comes the rugged Lizard Range. [a long, squiggly line]
At the foot of Mt. Fernie lies a pretty mountain town, Fernie. It has a great brick school building."
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September 7, 1930 - Pencil outline of Mt. McDugal, Mt. Hosmer, Mt. Fernie and the Lizard Range in British Columbia, between Crow's Nest Pass and Fernie.
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The train must be going through the heart of the Rocky Mts. in this stretch. Mom has three mountains and one whole range to draw, all on one small page! Mt. Hosmer is fairly lightly drawn. It doesn't show up as well as the others.
Crow's Nest Pass, which they just left about an hour before, sits on the Continental divide. It is also the time zone change between Mountain time and Pacific time.
The last sentence is quite telling ("It has a great brick school building."), as Mom had just begun her career as a teacher. She notices nice school buildings. Her first school was a one room schoolhouse.
This page is just full of those German "t's".
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The End
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September 8, 1930 - the flourish at the end of the diary entries. Back home in Jordan, Oregon.
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Here is the conclusion to the diary, with a flourish for effect. Only six and a half full-sheets remained in the notebook, so there was not much room left to write.
Mom did make some interesting notes in the back, including information about herself and her immigration status, apparently for her citizenship application a few years later. There is also a page of notes on some taxes due on property in Primate, (the Ahl's perhaps?), and a few other odds and ends.
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