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(published local text) "A Salute "The women who came with them, did not merely follow. They went shoulder to shoulder with their men. Women with beautiful singing names like Michalena, Selestia Celina and Zelda, some of whom did not speak the language of the new land. Women with names like Helen, Hilda and Mary and Martha, often gently reared, city bred, well educated. " These women took their place in this new society and preformed the usual roles of womankind -- wife, mother, housekeeper, mid-wife, nurse and gardener. They made homes out of tents, soddies and shacks. They fed their ever-hungry families satisfying meals from unbelievably limited larders. They clothed them with garments patched and repatched and made-overs." "Filing for the Future Townships 1,2, & 3, Range 23." The Clay Centre Handicraft Club, July 10, 1967 (Available in Eastend Saskatchewan.) (published local text) |
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