Postcards from a Métis Trooper in the First World War In 2024, my father shared with me some postcards he had kept. They were passed down by his great-grandmother, Eliza Scheer (nee Desmarais) a Métis midwife who ran a boarding house in Fort MacLeod in the early decades of the 20th century. Most were fromContinue reading “Dearest Mother Pt 6: I have received no letter from you lately”
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Dearest Mother Pt 5: Up Hear Near the Firing Line
Postcards from a Métis Trooper in the First World War In 2024, my father shared with me some postcards he had kept. They were passed down by his great-grandmother, Eliza Scheer (nee Desmarais) a Métis midwife who ran a boarding house in Fort MacLeod in the early decades of the 20th century. Most were fromContinue reading “Dearest Mother Pt 5: Up Hear Near the Firing Line”
Dearest Mother Pt 4: …In Strange Contrast to the Farms of the Prairie
Postcards from a Métis Trooper in the First World War In 2024, my father shared with me some postcards he had kept. They were passed down by his great-grandmother, Eliza Scheer (nee Desmarais) a Métis midwife who ran a boarding house in Fort MacLeod in the early decades of the 20th century. Most were fromContinue reading “Dearest Mother Pt 4: …In Strange Contrast to the Farms of the Prairie”
