From Alice Waters Cairns to her cousin May Waters (March 12, 1911)
Poplar Grove (or Langbank) Sask. March 12th, 1911 Dear Cousin May Thank you very much for Uncle Ben's photo and the other little ones. Uncle Ben 1ooks so well and…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her cousin May Waters (March 8, 1914)
Langbank, Sask. March 8th, 1914 Dear Cousin May, I do miss Amy very much, she was always rather masterful in the household affairs, and that was a comfort to me,…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her granddaughter Susan Dickey Hewson (June 30, 1915)
[Postcard addressed: Miss Susan Dickey, Poplar Grove, Sask. Postmarked Bedford NS July 3 15. Susan was not quite five years old at the time.] Front of card: Scene of trees,…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her cousin May Waters (January, 1920)
[Undated. Assumed to be early 1920s.] [The letter is written after Christmas. It refers to Ian and Owen Cairns but not their sister Alice. Owen was born in March 1919.…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her daughter Janet Cairns Dickey (December 19, 1921)
[Envelope addressed: Mrs. J.B. Dickey, Langbank, Sask., Canada. Postmark mostly illegible but probably Hoylake, England. Receiving postmark: Langbank Sask. Jan 12 22. “Geof” referred to in the letter is Geoff…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her daughter Janet Cairns Dickey (December 31, 1921)
[Envelope addressed: Mrs. J.B. Dickey, Saskatchewan, Canada. Postmarked: Worthing 6 AM 9 Jan 1922 Stamp removed.] Dec. 31st 1921 Meols, 3 Centurion Drive. Dear Janet; Your nice letter came this…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her daughter Janet Cairns Dickey (January 8, 1922)
[In same envelope as previous letter, dated December 31, 1921. The trip to France, referenced in the letter, was to visit their son's grave.] Worthing, Jan. 8th 1922 Dear Janet,…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her cousin May Waters (August 24, 1924)
Langbank, Aug. 24th, 1924 My dear May & all others. I am too lazy for anything. I ought to have written long before this, but my usual excuse, no energy.…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her daughter Janet Cairns Dickey and her son Robert Benjamin (Bob) Cairns (June, 1925)
[In same envelope as the letter dated June 23, 1925. This letter was apparently written before the June 23 one, as this describes the trip on “the Lakes” referred to…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her daughter Janet Cairns Dickey (June 23, 1925)
[Envelope addressed: Mrs. J.B. Dickey, Langbank, Sask. Postmarked: Charlottetown P.E.I. 5 AM Jun 24 1925. Three cent King George V stamp. According to Alice Waters Cairns' diary, they travelled first…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her daughter Janet Cairns Dickey and granddaughter Susan Dickey Hewson (December 30, 1929)
[No envelope. The address was handwritten twice in the letter. Robert and Aunt Janie, referred to near the end of the letter, would be John Andrew Cairns’s younger brother Robert…
From Alice Waters Cairns to her granddaughter Susan Dickey Hewson (February 10, 1930)
[The final sentence of this letter suggests that Susan was looking after things at Cairnbank in the absence of Rev. and Mrs. Cairns. Susan was 19 at the time this…