Gr. Grandpa Joseph Enos Diary March 1881

 An Excerpt from My Great-Grandfather’s Diary 📖

I’m sharing excerpts from my Great-Grandfather’s diary. They may not always appear in chronological order, so please bear with me as I work through them.

He lived in Nanoose Bay, on Notch Hill, and his diary gives us a glimpse into our family’s life and history.

My Great-Great-Grandfather came from the Azores to Victoria in 1862. He later married my Songhees Great-Great-Grandmother in 1876, the same year the federal Indian Act was enacted.

The diary belonged to my Great-Grandfather. My Great-Aunt Mary eventually donated it to the Royal BC Museum. I was able to have it scanned into a PDF, and I’ve also been working from the handwritten cursive to create a hand-printed transcription so that we can actually read his words.

It feels pretty special to be able to bring these pages back into the family story, more than a century later.

More excerpts to come. ❤️

First Book — March 1881

March

1. Brought dogfish scraps home to put in the garden

2. Digging for apple trees.
   Father grafting

3. Grafting

4. Took boat to point

5. Father is grafting

6. "

7. Planting apple trees

8. Planting fruit trees

9. I sawed wood, then repairing boat

10. Fixing fishing line

11. Sawing wood

12. FCD

13. [unclear] came in the Bay

14. [unclear] the dogfish

15. Fixing the fish line

16. Put the fish line in the water
    Brought home the oxen

17. Hauling home wood

18. FCD

19. Repairing a fence at the beach

20. Repairing a fence at the beach

21. Plant the beach garden

22. Blue grouse came in

23. Found Browneys calf dead

24. I went to the point

25. Father sent a letter to Frank Bilboa

26. Raing Day

28. Herring came in the bay
    the second time

29. Sowing onion seeds

30. Fine Clear Weather

31. Planting at the spit