by Frank Macdonald The first time I visited Detriot was the summer of 1963 if I recall correctly, when Greet and Hughie bundled me amid all the other children in the station wagon and set off from Cape Breton. This was an adventure for me, including one of my boyhood’s most memorable moments. I was [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Hughie • Macdonald, Frank • Macdonald, Greet • Stories • Storytellers • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson December 24, 2006 | 
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by Frank Macdonald In the spring of 1967 I arrived in Detriot, a hungry relative who had failed to find work in Vancouver, barely worked in Sudbury and had the idea that I would make my way to Boston. I only had enough money to get to Detroit but I had this aunt and uncle, [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Hughie • Macdonald, Frank • Macdonald, Greet • Stories • Storytellers • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson December 18, 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 [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Art • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, Hughie • Macdonald, Frank • Macdonald, Freddie • Macdonald, Greet • Macdonald, Jackie • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson • told by Greet Macdonald | Dave Ferguson March 14, 2006 | Comments (2)
by Frank Macdonald Reading John’s story about getting Greet to peel the grapes reminded me of a Christmas in my early 20s when I was home in Trenton [Nova Scotia] for a visit. I was watching television with my father, Freddie, and reached over to the coffee table and took some gumdrops out of a [...]
Characters • Gillies, Catherine • Macdonald, Frank • Macdonald, Freddie • Stories • Storytellers • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson March 2, 2006 | Comments (0)
by Joanne Macdonald My Mom and Dad, Veronica “Eoin” and Charlie “Jack D.” always attended the concerts in the [Port Hawkesbury / Inverness] area. As everyone knows Mom and Dad brought a lunch…more like a supper to feed any and all of the relatives. Once I moved home from Edmonton, I decided to keep up [...]
Characters • MacDonald, Veronica • Macdonald, Charlie • Macdonald, Frank • Macdonald, Joanne • Stories • Storytellers • told by Joanne Macdonald | Dave Ferguson February 27, 2006 | Comments (0)
by Frank Macdonald When Mattie had his store (for about 100 years) there was something unique to Inverness that took place in it. He had a soda fountain, a beautiful butterscotch-coloured top on a green base and behind that were all the wonders of the soda fountain for making milkshakes. There was a mine manager [...]
Chew, Tom • Ferguson, Mattie • Ferguson, Wesley • Macdonald, Frank • Stories • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson February 9, 2006 | Comments (0)
