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 David Ferguson I moved from Detroit to Washington DC in 1977. For many years afterward my parents would visit us from time to time. During one trip, in 1983, Dad said one day that he’d like to go into Washington with me (I was going into work part of the time while they were [...]
Characters • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, Hughie • Macdonald, Greet • Stories • Storytellers • told by David Ferguson | Dave Ferguson October 2, 2006 | Comments (0)
by Bruce Ferguson One of the things I remember about Inverness was the times we spent on vacation there. Mom and Dad would farm out the five kids to various relatives so that we wouldn’t be such a burden to one family. John would stay with uncle Danny, Art would stay with uncle Roddie, Dave [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Anne Marie • Ferguson, Art • Ferguson, Bruce • Ferguson, Danny (Skel) • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, John • Ferguson, Mattie • Ferguson, Roddie • Ferguson, Sadie • Macdonald, Billie • Macdonald, Greet • Stories • Storytellers • told by Bruce Ferguson | Dave Ferguson August 21, 2006 | Comments (1)
by Rose Ferguson I remember that one year my parents took us to Detroit for Thanksgiving. It was supposed to be a surprise for my grandparents, that all their children and grandchildren would be home for Thanksgiving. I had sprained my wrist on the playground at school, and I had some sort of soft cast [...]
Characters • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, Kevin • Ferguson, Rose • Macdonald, Greet • Stories • Storytellers • told by Rose Ferguson | Dave Ferguson May 27, 2006 | Comments (2)
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 | Comments (0)
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 [...]
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)
