MEMORIES OF DAD : Harry starts to remember at Potvin’s House 1928
The Lynn Tatro family moved twice more before Harry was born on September 16, 1924. First, for the winter, to a house vacated by Ted Waterhouse near the Roeclifffe School. It was much more convenient for Vern, Gladys and George, to attend school and made it easier for the family to socialize with other families. […]
BACK TO SASKATCHEWAN To Start a New Life on the Farm 1922
Lynn and family left Minnesota shortly after Adelia’s funeral in March 1922 and returned to Saskatchewan. Lynn was now unemployed so the family moved into the original log buildings on Dave Strachan’s homestead. The farm was doing well and Dave and Suzie, Grace’s mother, had moved onto a purchased quarter closer to the village of […]
BISHOP MILLING CO. : Battleford SK 1938
You may remember a reference in the blog post on January 6, 2021 called MOTHER FED HOBOS AND TRAMPS about people in the Battleford area taking their grain to the mill to be ground into flour. It seems that while going through a box of old, and I mean OLD, papers from the Brada house […]
THE DAY I ABANDONED MY CHILDREN – 1962
My son Richard suggested this Blog and said it needed that title because, ever since it happened it has remained such a traumatic event in his memory. This is how it happened. A few years following my start as officer in charge at Fort Battleford National Historic Site, my responsibility had expanded into interest in […]
MEMORIES OF DAD : Henry Lynn Tatro – A time of Saddnes and Joy
“In 1918 the end of World War I brought rejoicing to people. It also brought the terrible influenza epidemic. Grace’s cousin, Abbie and her husband, Alden Bryant, had come to North Battleford and were very close to Grace and Lynn. Lynn was particularly fond of Alden, and when he got “the flu” Lynn undertook nursing […]
MEMORIES OF DAD : Henry Lynn Tatro – The Move to Saskatchewan or “The Bee House”
“Once again Lynn was out of work. He was pleased to get word from Grace’s mother that there was lots of work to be had in Saskatchewan. In October, with Grace, Vern and baby Gladys (fondly called Bee-bee), Lynn hurried to Canada, where he readily got work with the newly established Imperial Oil Company in […]
MEMORIES AND STORIES OF DAD, Henry Lynn Tatro : Lynn and Grace marry
After moving to Radium, Minnesota to work with his cousin Moses Henry Tatro, Lynn started a courtship with Grace Elizabeth Attix, the young school teacher boarding at the Tatro home. “by the end of the school term Grace was signing herself “Lovingly Grace” when she wrote back to Lynn at Radium to look after the […]
MEMORIES AND STORIES OF DAD, Henry Lynn Tatro : Early Years
Now let’s go back to the beginning. My Grandfather Henry Lynn Tatro, was born on August 4th, 1886 at the farmstead of his Grandfather, Moses Tatro, in Medford Township, Walsh County, Dakota Territoy in the United States. On that same day he lost his twin. They had come early and were barely 3 lbs. “No […]
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 […]
My Memmories of Meetings with Queen Elizabeth II
Did you see ex Prime Minister Jean Chrétien being interviewed by news media about his memories of the Queen in Canada. I didn’t see it, but I was told that he that he told, from his point of view, the story that I have also told so many times from my point of view. In […]