The Old Farm House On The Hill

 Our family lived on Prince Edward Island when my mother left our father because of his drinking etc. I was about age eight and my sister age ten and our little brother.  The house had no electic power and no running water. The farm house had not any insultion like today homes. We live mostly in two rooms downstairs in the winter because of the very cold weather. We had one kitchen stove for heat.of the two room downstairs. My mother had to go outside to the water well in a very small shed and carry the bucket to the house. We hadn't any bathroom in the house but a old fashen pot for toilet. life was hard for us. We had not a car either. We walked a long ways to a one room school house in New Glasgow. At night we had a oil lamp so nights were dark. In the  spring I had my first veggie garden. I learn how to fish as I found a fishing hole and brought home and cooked my fish. I found bottles to exchange for money. I remember being hungery too. I learn to like carpenter work as I had my first start at an old fox house play house. I had my own tree to climb to be free from an uncle. Copyrights (C)  dawnangel, a child.  

The School in PRINCE Edward Island

  The little School on the hill in New Glasgow P E I  where I live for two years when my mother left my father.On the last day my Teacher took me aside and told me she wouldn't see me on my birthday and gave me a gift a birthday book  the only gift I received from a teacher. She told me that my mother was taking me back to New Brunswick to live so she would not see me next school year. She was the only teacher that had a real heart that I can remember as child. By Dawn    (C) Copyrights.

Life in Prince Edward Island School

 My last day in the New Glasgow School House, there was many grades in one big room . Also, a full basement down stairs, bathroom, and big lunch room and big hallway porch. I can see the school in my head like a picture. That is one of the ways I learn , visually New Brunswick and she wouldn't beable to see on my birthday so she was giving me Birthday Book to put all the birthdays in. That is the only and firs I received a gift from a teacher. After I received it my mother took it away for herself. She didn't want me to remember her brother or what happen up on the hill in New Glasgow PEI . Harry was no Harry Potter either. He was a sick uncle and that is all I say. I report him to the police but they let him walk. He didn't pay for his bad behavior, Many don't !   I feel sad for the native children who died and were abused , killed in Former Residential Schools . I too felt not protected by the school system and New Brunswick so it is not just native people. There was more then the Catholic church and  Anglican Church that hurt children and abused them. Dawn  (C) Copyrights.

 

Losing Our Apartment when I was a child

 Once my mother was given short notice that we would have to move as the Landlord wanted to rent our place to her daughter. So all us  four kids would have  to stay with other people. My mother left me at Irene Lutz, a German  lady and friend of the family.