Author Margaret Kell Virany finds a romantic love story from the Twenties buried in letters, journals, diaries and photos left by her parents. A spark ignited in World War I develops into a lasting love in the snowy expanses and frozen lakes of northern territory inhabited by the Swampy Cree.
The writing recounts serving with the Navy in the North Sea, flying from London to Paris, crossing the Atlantic, canoeing up the fur trade route, and trekking in winter on a cariole in search of a hospital. Day-to-day life of First Persons is observed, and the positive role of missionaries in that era.
Kathleen Elizabeth Ward and John Ambrose Campbell Kell (JAC or Jack) were an unlikely pair. She was a city councilor's daughter from Portsmouth, England (pop. 190,000) and he was a farmer from Cookstown, Canada (pop. 550 not counting the pigs, sheep, horses and cows). They met in 1917 when her father, a Sunday school teacher, invited some colonial servicemen home for tea.The courtship is conducted on onion skin stationery over 5,000 miles between fog and bog. She asks him to come over again before she decides and he does, twice.
The writing recounts serving with the Navy in the North Sea, flying from London to Paris, crossing the Atlantic, canoeing up the fur trade route, and trekking in winter on a cariole in search of a hospital. Day-to-day life of First Persons is observed, and the positive role of missionaries in that era.
Kathleen Elizabeth Ward and John Ambrose Campbell Kell (JAC or Jack) were an unlikely pair. She was a city councilor's daughter from Portsmouth, England (pop. 190,000) and he was a farmer from Cookstown, Canada (pop. 550 not counting the pigs, sheep, horses and cows). They met in 1917 when her father, a Sunday school teacher, invited some colonial servicemen home for tea.The courtship is conducted on onion skin stationery over 5,000 miles between fog and bog. She asks him to come over again before she decides and he does, twice.
