“Of Montreal, I can say but little. The cholera was at its height, and the fear of infection, which increased the nearer we approached its shores, cast a gloom over the scene, and prevented us from exploring its infected streets. That the feelings of all on board very nearly resembled our own might be readContinue reading “OTR Celebrates Canada Day with Susanna Strickland Moodie”
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OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie
“The day was warm, and the cloudless heavens of that peculiar azure tint which gives to the Canadian skies and waters a brilliancy unknown in more northern latitudes. The air was pure and elastic, the sun shone out with uncommon splendour, lighting up the changing woods with a rich mellow colouring, composed of a thousandContinue reading “OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie”
OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie
“The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.” Susanna Strickland Moodie Susanna Moodie was not one to stand back when things needed to be said, to be written, to be done. In 1822, when she was still in her teens, she wrote herContinue reading “OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie”
OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie
“Ah, Hope! What would life be, stripped of they encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.” Susanna Strickland Moodie Susanna Strickland Moodie was born December 6, 1803, to a family of writers and poets. Her birthplace may have beenContinue reading “OTR Celebrates June with Susanna Strickland Moodie”
OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery
Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery fell in love with Reverend Ewen MacDonald, the minister of the local Presbyterian Church and agreed to marry him on the stipulation that the wedding take place after her grandmother’s passing. This was in 1906;Continue reading “OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery”
OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery qualified for her teacher’s license at Prince Wales College in 1895 and spent a few years teaching at Bideford, located in the western portion of Prince Edward Island. HerContinue reading “OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery”
OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
“It’s not what the world holds for you. It’s what you bring to it.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables As a child, Lucy Maud Montgomery spent much of her time in the care of her grandparents, Lucy and Alexander Macneill, who ran the Cavendish, PEI post office. After her mother died, her father spent mostContinue reading “OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery”
OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery
All life lessons are not learned at college,’she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery, Maud to her friends, writes from her life experiences. The daughter of Hugh John Montgomery and Clara Woolner Macneill Montgomery, she experienced loss at a very early age. Her mother, stricken by tuberculosis,Continue reading “OTR Celebrates April With Lucy Maud Montgomery”
OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it’s grand and great.” Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery is one of Canada’s most cherished authors, best known for the world-renowned Anne of Green Gables. BornContinue reading “OTR Celebrates April with Lucy Maud Montgomery”
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