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. ❤️
Here’s the transcription for the entries in June 1881:
June 1, Wednesday: Plowing at the bottom.
June 2, Tuesday: (No entry recorded.)
June 3, Friday: (No entry recorded.)
June 4, Saturday: (No entry recorded.)
June 5, Sunday: Plowing at the bottom.
June 6, Monday: Weeding at the spit.
June 7, Tuesday: Plowing.
June 8, Wednesday: Rainy weather.
June 9, Tuesday: Raining.
June 10, Friday: Raining.
June 11, Saturday: Hauling potatoes at the spit.
June 12, Sunday: Hauling potatoes at the spit.
June 13, Monday: Plowing at the bottom.
June 14, Tuesday: Plowing.
June 15, Wednesday: Drilling holes for potatoes at the bottom.
June 16, Thursday: Planting potatoes at the bottom.
June 17, Friday: Planting carrots at the bottom.
June 18, Saturday: Sowing turnips.
June 19, Sunday: Sowing turnips.
June 20, Monday: Transplanting cabbage.
June 21, Tuesday: Transplanting cabbage.
June 22, Wednesday: Father went to Nanaimo.
June 23, Thursday: Returned from Nanaimo.
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