Dear Brother-in-law and Sister

I am all alone this Sunday afternoon and I got thinking of the Old Country and my young days so I thought of you and your family. Hope this will find you all well. Well Jessie we are creeping up in years I will be 77, 20th August. I am keeping very well. I take nothing to do with the farm. Hector and his wife looks after it. She is a very careful and good housekeeper. They have a nice little boy Donald Grant Cameron. Well it was a very Disasterous Year in Canada for farmers and I guess it was much the same in the Old Country. All the World over and it will take a long time to remedy the deppression. Fancy the Millions of people that is being fed. no fault of theirs in many cases. Simply no work. We had a fairly good crop last year. The prices of grain so very low and everything the farmers has to sell get nothing for it. I sometimes think I would like to visit home again and see you and a few of my old chums of long ago, I daresay there are not many of them left. Peter Wright and A. Barclay are still alive. Is Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johnstone still to the fore and Mr. and Mrs. Clachan.

My youngest daughter and husband is coming home in June for their hollidays. They get a year and a trip to the Old Country. They are out in the North West Territory about 2000 miles from here have been 5 years away at an Indian School. All the rest of family are well. I play a game with Horse Shoes. It is all the rage in every district (Special Shoes). I won a tournamet 64 players 2 years ago. I went last year. I guess there would be 80 men. I was winning till the last two games, got 3rd place.

Hoping John is keeping well and all the rest.
I remain your aff. Brother
Andrew

Dear Nephew and Niece

I received your letter telling of your Dear Mother’s Death. I was away West for about a month. When I got home I saw a letter on the table and I said to my son My Dear sisters Death. I opened it and it was so. What a great Blessing it is when one Dear to us passys away peacefully. She was a good Mother to you and she was a good sister to me. We were raised together til she was married. I cried like a child next day. I was lonely. I need not have cryed knowing she was going to a good Husband and a good Home. And I have no doubt that she gone to a good Home in Heaven.

Had a letter from Mrs. Ryder telling of her fathers Death he must have been 90 or over. She sent 2 snap of him but I could not recognise him. I was curious that 38 Years ago his wife died on 10th Dec.

I heard over the Radio Saturday night what a storm you had. All well here and Andrew and William. Hoping this will find you both well and all your brothers and sisters.

I remain your loving Uncle
Andrew Cameron

p.s. Maggie tells me she had an afternoon tea with a daughter of Tom Johnstone some where out west.

Dear Cousin

I have very sad news for you, my father, your Uncle Andrew passed away on the 5th of April and was laid beside my dear mothers grave today. Now perhaps I should tell you who I am, the eldest daughter, Maggie. altho I have always been called Margaret since I grew up – I’m the only one not married and I have been a missionary –to the Indians in Canada for twelve years. Dad had a very short illness. I received a telegram the day before he passed away saying there was no hope of his recovery, so I left right away and arrived here 20 hours after – too late for Dad to know me. which is a great grief to me, his illness was nuemeric poisoning. We are all going to miss Dad. He was a good father and since mother died he lived at the old home with his youngest son Hector. They have 2 boys and a girl and Dad was a great favorite with them. Dad was quite grieved to hear of his sister Jessie’s death. I have a married sister on a farm about 200 miles from my school and Dad always spent a month each winter with her, so I was down to see her at the same time and had a fine visit with Dad the year before he came and stayed with me. Will. has one boy and Andrew three boys – my youngest sister is married to a minister who is in the Indian work too, they are away up in the Arctic and it may be some time before she gets to hear of Dads death and I know how she will feel it.

In looking through Dads letters I find several of yours and one from a Mrs. Ryder who will be a cousin of mine too so I am writing to her too.

My sister and her husband and myself hope to come over to the old country some time in the near future and it will be a great pleasure to meet my mother and fathers relatives

I am returning to my school in a day or so and feel that with Dad passing the old home will not be the same again. I must write to Uncle Willie that is Mothers brother and tell him the news. I expect you will be telling the Glasgow cousins. I remember meeting them. Where is Nancy Cameron and a younger girl now. Well, will be pleased to hear from you if you care to write.

address letter to
Old Sun School
Gleichen, Alta.
Canada
Yours sincerely
Margaret Cameron