The Scrapbook
Olive Delmage Hawley (1878-1951) was my grandmother. She was the eldest of six daughters born to William Julius and Minetta Price Delmage in the last 20 years of the 19th […]
The Changing Face of Cleveland
When Edith Delmage left her ancestral home in rural Ontario in 1905 she was anxious to start a working life in a city. So she set her sights on (wait […]
Preserving the Past
You are looking at a photograph of the “younger generation” who attended the Price family reunion in Newburgh Ontario 99 years ago this past summer.This group was made up of […]
Have Camera, Will Travel
Like most people I have always liked to travel and document what I saw in my wanderings. That meant I was always hauling along a camera of sorts. Since my […]
Get It Right Next Time
Back when I started listening to rock and roll (in its antediluvian days) the saxophone had a prominent role in most tunes. A good example is this Little Richard classic from […]
Vale of Tears
My great-great aunt Maud was a widow when she married great-great uncle Norman Price in 1900. I didn’t know this based on the paper genealogy I have (done in the […]
Never Been Here, Never Actually Seen It But…
This stately Victorian farmhouse is in my opinion the home of my great-great grandfather Andrew Valleau Price (1830-1910.) Here he would have raised his large and diverse family which included […]
Skule Daze
Another year of school started today with my grandson now in Grade 2 and my older granddaughter in Grade 1. That got me thinking about my own school experience which […]