Richmond, Quebec as seen from Melbourne, from family photo. It’s the 30′s. You can tell by two cars on the road. The church at right is Chalmer’s, right down the street from Tighsolas. It’s easy to see from this picture, how close the river is to the main drag. No wonder there was often flooding in the spring.
OK. It’s Tuesday January 5th, (I posted a number of pictures on their own blogs earlier and now I am catching up.)
Christmas is OVER and I am getting ready to post my next installment of Flo in the City, a novel for middle-schoolers based on the story of www.tighsolas.ca/page604.html.
I am bogged-down with back-reading, because of the INFORMATION EXPLOSION that is the 2010 era. I still have to read (and not scan) the book on the Quebec Tercentenary, so that I can have Margaret talk about her trip. And I’ve downloaded many other articles of interest. Just today I found a book on millinery, written 1914 but adapted from a 1905 book.
This is a key find as I am going to have Flora explore some career choices, as Edith has just suggested to her what so many are saying, that the young women of that era have thousands of career choices. (Not exactly true.)
With this information, I can have Flora, who is artistic, visit Eugenie Hudon’s on Main Street, (just a little to the left in the above picture) to see if she can get into the ‘posh’ millinery profession.
(That will be interesting, I already know because, like everyone, I have had experience having my bubble burst by someone in a position to hire me (or at least give me support) when I was a young person looking for a job).
I remember one particular person in an advertising agency on Peel Street. She just savaged me when I said I wanted to write ads. “First you have to start as a receptionist, then, maybe after two years you can work as a secretary, then maybe years later you can write copy.” What did they tell males who came for jobs? I had a degree. Awful experience. You know, it doesn’t hurt to be positive when giving an interview to a young person. A little encouragement goes a long way. I remember the nice interviews I had too. A nice exec at CTV said to me “You know, you have to lie on your resume.” Gee, how did I get onto that?
But first Flora has to go to Boston, so I have to re-read her 1912 letters to her sisters who are visiting Boston. In these letters Flora writes about what she did on her visit 4 years before! She’ll see nurses working in a hospital and decide that isn’t for her.
