by Julene Coady While living in Nova Scotia, I got to know family I had only heard about. One time when I was out visiting Aunt Billie, we were talking about weddings and Anniversaries, and the way things were done and the way things were celebrated. Aunt Greet & Uncle Hughie were celebrating their 50th [...]
Characters • Coady, Julene • Ferguson, Danny (Skel) • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, Jane • Ferguson, Janice • Macdonald, Billie • Macdonald, Charlie • Macdonald, Edith • Macdonald, Greet • Macdonald, Kevin • Macdonald, Marie • MacKinnon, Kay • Stories • Storytellers • Stubbert, Ambrose • Stubbert, Edna • Stubbert, Kay • Summerfield, Anne Marie • Summerfield, Coady • told by Julene Coady | Dave Ferguson April 23, 2006 | 
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by Julene Coady Today I read of the passing of Hughie Beaton, and it brought me back to October 1998 and the 125th Anniversary of the RCMP. Everett and I were the co-chairs of the 125th Anniversary Gala Ball to celebrate the anniversary of the RCMP. In such formal affairs there are a number of [...]
Beaton, Hughie • Characters • Coady, Barton • Coady, Julene • Ferguson, Gerard • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, Jane • Macdonald, Greet • Murray, J. P. H. (RCMP Commissioner) • Stories • Storytellers • Stubbert, Kay • Summerfield, Everett • told by Julene Coady | Dave Ferguson March 30, 2006 | Comments (1)
by Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson When Dad left [Inverness], it was February of ’52. and he stayed for our anniversary, but I don’t know when after that he left, shortly after. We had a bad winter. We were snowed in; they had to shovel us out one time. I was there two [...]
by Hughie Ferguson and Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson Greet: When Roddie was really sick, we made a point of going. We always stopped to see them anyway as we drove down and back. But the last year we were going to stay two or three days in Antigonish. And we were going [...]
by Julene Coady One of the fondest memories and stories I have of my Mom and Dad [Edith Macdonald and Bernie Coady] is their Big Trip. In 1972 Ford Motors of Canada ad a contest; the prize was a trip Chicago, to see the Black Hawks play. Bobby Hull was playing for the Hawks then, [...]
by Hughie Ferguson and Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson David: Do you remember your grandparents? Hughie: My grandfather was Hughie. Greet: And his grandmother lived with them after the grandfather died. She couldn’t speak English. Hughie: With the Gaelic, oh, yeah. They did a lot of talking about it. David: What did he [...]
by Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson [I talked to my mother tonight and told her about Rose getting her own room when she was a baby. Mom pointed out that I did once have a room of my own. -- Dave] [It was] at Bertie’s house [on MacIsaac Street in Inverness], the one [...]
by Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson [Hughie Ferguson's brother Johnny] died before John [Ferguson] was born [April, 1948]. I went home from Halifax because we didn’t have any money to have a baby in Halifax, and it would be cheaper at home. So I went home to Inverness in March, and Johnny Ferguson [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, John • Ferguson, Johnny • Ferguson, Mattie • Ferguson, Sadie • Macdonald, Freddie • Macdonald, Greet • Macdonald, Jack D • Rankin, Annie Belle • Stories • Storytellers • told by Greet Macdonald | Dave Ferguson February 20, 2006 | Comments (3)
