MEMORIES AND STORIES OF DAD, Henry Lynn Tatro – Why was he called “Pop”
Hi everyone. Susan here. For anyone who doesn’t know I am Harry’s oldest daughter. I am the one building and doing the posts to this blog. Sometimes I write up the storis as Dad tells them, sometimes he writes them up and I do a little editing and sometimes I borrow from things he has […]
A TRIP ON THE YUKON RIVER 1971
A February 22, 2024 calendar picture and my subsequent mention of canoeing down the Yukon River today prompted Susan’s suggestion that I should do a blog on my experience on that river in 1971, so here it goes. Tom Kovacs with the Parks Canada Wild Rivers Project states in his article “The Wild Rivers Survey: […]
SAVE FORT BATTLEFORD
A few months ago we heard that Fort Battleford had been closed down. We could hardly believe it and couldn’t think of a good reason why closing The Fort would be a good idea. We had lived there for more than ten years while Dad was Superintendant and it felt very personal. Since then Dad […]
A TRIP TO THE PITS AT FRENCHMAN’S BUTTE – 1964
Sometimes “official history” becomes recorded incorrectly. A good example is in the report, by General Strange, of his engagement at Frenchman’s Butte, Saskatchewan in 1885. He seems to scoff about the “enemies’ ” poor understanding of military tactics when he reports “the large trenches on the enemy’s left flank, commanding the trail approaching their position, […]
TEAGAN’S STORY
Thanksgiving 2023 While at Gwen’s at Thanksgiving time, I planned to spend a little time on my computer at the desk near the bed in my bedroom. Jolene’s five-year-old, Teagan, followed and took the computer chair. She was immediately attracted to three or four blank sheets of computer paper folded in half, like a little […]
MAKWA LAKES : It Keeps Calling Me Back – 1946 – ? (I will be 99 in a couple weeks)
The area around Loon Lake, Saskatchewan has been a prominent part of my life ever since I arrived there in the fall of 1946, to be the teacher of Kellet School, located a few miles south of the village. Actually, it had seemed a place of pioneering adventure from my childhood days in the “dirty […]
THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT TATRO ANCESTORS – #10 Etienne Trudeau
10) Etienne Trudeau (1641-1712) A few years ago, in 2017, I and my wife Dorothy and daughters Susan and Gwen traveled to France. We went to visit the birthplace of my ancestor Etienne Trudeau. He was the first of all my ancestors to come to North America. While in France we also visited La Rochelle […]
TEN MOST IMPORTANT (or interesting) TATRO ANCESTORS – 9) Jean Magny (about 1647-about 1703)
As frequently happened Jean Magny’s named appears in differently in several places. Jean Magny was a Huguenot of noble descent. Huguenots were French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of theologian John Calvin. Persecuted by the French Catholic government during a violent period, Huguenots fled the country in the 17th century. […]
TEN MOST IMPORTANT TATRO ANCESTORS – Willam Chance Attix 1816 – ?
The generations of the Attix family seem to be unique among our ancestors. Rather than pioneering and farming they were enterprising entrepreneurs. I have chosen William Chance Attix and his son and grandson to represent the Attix line who are interesting and important to me and, I think, to my descendants. All of my family […]
THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT TATRO ANCESTORS – 7) Maria Josephine Tritsmans (1891-1978)
You younger descendants of mine will remember this person as, “Grandma Beeching”. You, for sure, must think she is important and certainly, her life is interesting. At first, it had not come to my mind at all, that she would be one of the ten picked. Then one day, my daughter, Susan, said that not […]
THE TEN MOST IMPORTANT TATRO ANCESTORS – 6) John Howland (1597-1672)
I chose John Howland as one of our important and interesting ancestors so he can represent our five ancestors, who came to America in 1620 on the “Mayflower”. Those five are John Tilley, his wife, Joan, and their daughter, Elizabeth, who became John Howland’s wife, and Thomas Rogers. Those first four are ancestors of both […]