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  1. Letter from Dennis, Wellington Murray and Margaret Munro

    very pleased to learn that your friends help to fill your time. I remember you said that you were very ... I have read it thru many many times. I should have answered before this but Dad, Mother, Baby and I have ... for the time to come when I shall be able to meet them, just now our harvest services are coming on ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 1:24am

  2. Letter from Gould, Albert Norman

    a good time. This airmail service is a good thing & your mail is very regular now. That airgraph ... when those cigarettes get here. These English fags are terrible & very costly what you can get. My ... money saved for my leave but thats O.K. with me. We should get 3 days in 3 weeks time & I shall go ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 9:53am

  3. Letter from Darrach, Lee Grant

    short time, as they are sending us away from here in very long drafts. My mates in my old Batallion are ... job. We have been having it very exciting around here the past couple of weeks, as the Germans have ... guns and zeppelins. I see Russia is doing a great work. I think you will see a big move within a very ...

    Editor - Sep 16 2021 - 4:18pm

  4. Letter from Shaw, Charles Gordon

    very much. By the way I just moved into the room with Mac a few days ago. The fellow who was with him ... went away, so I lost no time getting in because it is a much better room than the one I was in. Most of ... been working very hard doing all that varnishing and house cleaning as well as getting the garden fixed ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 14 2021 - 4:52am

  5. Letter from Liddiard, Walter

    night we saw the Northern Lights which were very pretty, and lasted a long time. We spent the evening ... River, about 150 miles to Ottawa which we [?] [?] sometime tonight. Hope we get there in time to see ... something of the town, I would like very much to see the General Post office there but of course there will ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 15 2021 - 4:47am

  6. Letter from Beaton Institute

    Christmas box, and now this afternoon such a nice letter to Ollie from Albert Gallant which she was very ... pleased to get when she came in from work. It was very nice of him and he certainly writes a good letter. ... be very glad to see him. Perhaps the ship bearing the 85th will land at Sydney, who knows & ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 11:16am

  7. Letter from Sudbury, John P.

    In camp after my 17th trench trip. Jan 13th 1917 My dearest Mother Thanks very much for parcel and ... letter received three nights ago in the trenches. I received Pa's letter at same time. The pancakes ... on Robert Burns which was most very instructive and which I much enjoyed especially as I knew the ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:11pm

  8. Letter from Taylor-Bury

    yesterday after taking rather a long time on the way. I was delighted to see your old fist again and hear ... a strenuous time in the trenches, which you would doubtless read about in letters sent on from home. Tomorrow ... Grace which was very much to the point. As soon as I sent the letter off it flashed across me that I had ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:13pm

  9. Letter from Cobourg World

    Saunton Sands, Devonshire, England, July 11th, 1915. Dear People: It is some time since you have ... Shornecliffe I had the very great pleasure of visiting the 40th Contingent in the 21st Battalion. I regret to ... say, however, that though I went three times, I was unfortunate in finding few of them about. They were ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 2:48pm

  10. Letter from Forbes, Donald M.

    commenced the bridge. All is very quiet here nothing of any consequence has happened for a long time. We ... pencil and you mentioned having sent without stamps. It had been a long time coming- quite three weeks. ... My dear boy, what a state you must be in between fatigue and the great heat (for it must be very hot ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 13 2021 - 6:19pm