Unknown girl: Tighsolas photo album. Edith is in this picture with a man. I assume they are teachers at Ecole Methodiste Westmount and that this is Westmount in the background.
I found this letter going through the Nicholson stash, hand-written in 1902 by Norman. It’s pretty self-explanatory. Bear in mind that the children in 1902 would be 10 (Flora) 16 (Marion) 18 (Herb) 19 Edith. Herb and Edith appear to have finished school. I suspect the Nicholsons were quite ‘modern’ in their discipline…what do you think?
Richmond, November 14, 1902
Future Regulations
All must be up and downstairs by 7:30 o’clock in the morning, Sunday included. Breakfast at 7:30, then all have to work one hour before going to school. At noon, children to come straight from school. Dinner at 12.:15. Children to work 40 minutes before going back to school.
All to come directly home at 4 o’clock, and to help work to supper time. Supper between five and six. After tea, dishes washed immediately after. Then school lessons to be studied for two hours by Marion and Flora. Then they go to bed. Rest at about 10 o’clock. In case of any change, must come through Mother. In case of any disobedience to the rules the punishment will be decided by the boss who will award the punishment at the time. In case that the parties are late for meals without cause, they will have to get their own meals in kitchen. There is also a prize for these who live up to this document, first, second, third, and fourth, which will be given at New Year’s and May 1903. Prizes will be awarded by Mother but given by Santa Clause. Be aware that these prizes can be withdrawn if not found worthy. To take effect today, Norman Nicholson.
I have a letter from Herb to his mother in 1902. He says he has a new girl. He visited ‘the old one’ the night before and is going to visit the new one, down in the valley that night. She is French, he says, but she doesn’t mind that he is Protestant. He signs the letter Rev. H. J Nicholson. The year before he apprenticed or something with a doctor. He also says he just got over ‘the small pox’ , Must have been the chicken pox.
