Letters from Beauly by Melynda Jarratt

Author:Melynda Jarratt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, Canadian Military History, History/Social History
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Schedule of the CFC’s events, Dominion Day, 1941. In addition to softball, soccer, and athletics, sports included log rolling and log cutting. The celebrations concluded with a public dance at Phipps Hall in Beauly.

Dances at Phipps Hall led to many romances between local women and the Canadian foresters, including Charlie Gunning and Dolly Connell, who married and moved to New Brunswick after the war.

It was at CFC dances like these all over Scotland that local women had a chance to meet an array of eligible, mostly young Canadians, and love often blossomed. One of the first romances to take root in 15 Company was between a nineteen-year-old Kiltarlity woman, Dolina “Dolly” Connell, and twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Gunning of Lower Gagetown, New Brunswick. Dolly met Charlie at a concert in Kiltarlity soon after 15 Company arrived in April 1941. Charlie, originally from Ayr, Scotland, had emigrated to Lower Gagetown when he was just fifteen as one of the “Cossar Boys,” a Scottish child migration scheme so named after their benefactor, Dr. George Cossar. Cossar came from a wealthy Glasgow family, and was sensitized to the plight of homeless men during his student days at Rugby School and Oxford. He established soup kitchens and shelters in Glasgow, but is best known for organizing a movement of young Scottish boys to work on farms in New Brunswick, starting in 1910. Cossar purchased a farm and apple orchard in Lower Gagetown that provided jobs and training in modern agricultural methods to otherwise unemployed or orphaned Scottish boys. Of the one thousand children Cossar recruited to Canada, more than seven hundred remained in the province, among them Charlie Gunning.

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