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Canada - Meet the Family
| Thanks to e-mail and also family connections in the UK
(Thank you Bob and Krys!), I was able to establish that I had a second cousin
(or two) in the Vancouver area. As a teenager, I remembered my mother telling me
about distant relatives who lived in Aldergrove, B.C. and I had pondered over an
atlas trying to imagine what it was like and whether I would ever go
there. Here I was just a stones throw away just 40 odd years
later. Having spoken to Sandy Cadwallader, we arranged to meet up. I took the
driverless sky train from Vancouver (spooky but efficient) to Port Moody, where
Sandy and her husband, Harry met me and took me to their home for lunch and a
long chat. We looked at old photographs and the family tree that Sandy had drawn
up.
After lunch they took me to Burnaby mountain park, close to
where Harry had worked before his retirement. It is somewhat off the tourist
map, and perhaps better for that. It had great views over the huge inlet known
as Indian Arm and there were totem poles galore.
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Harry and Sandy at their home in Port Moody |
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Sandy with her amazing 92 year old mum, who
was the Aldergrove connection. |
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A totem pole. |
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in need of a haircut |
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A family (?) of totem poles |
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Certain animals are representatives of
desirable attributes. I guess the owl here is for wisdom. |
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These plaques tell us a little about the
sculptures, for that is what they are. |
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The great Fraser river |
Indian Arm |
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A very peaceful and beautiful place. Sandy
says it's her favourite. |
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The Canadian national flag |
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Crossing the Fraser river by Port
Mann Bridge
where... ...you can see evidence of the logging which
is text book Canada |
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next, we went to
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| On a personal level, I would
like to thank Sandy and Harry for giving me a memorable day. It was lovely
to meet her mum, Mary Elizabeth Sanderson. Her husbands grand parents were my
great grand parents, all originating from Colne,
Lancashire. Our family tree (Lancasters and Sandersons can be downloaded
as a PDF file by clicking here.) |
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