Thursday, March 30, 2017

Yamaska Heartbreak

Desperate postcard from 111 years ago:



"Antoinette a reçu votre lettre hier soir, elle me dit que vous ne me repondrez pas maintenant. Ne me faites pas attendre trop longtemps. J'ai été très désappointé de ne pas recevoir une carte de vous hier soir, j'étais si certain d'en avoir une - j'avais hâte d'arriver à la maison, mais j'ai été déçu"

"Antoinette got your letter last evening, she tells me that you will not answer me now. Don't make me wait too long. I was really disappointed to not get a card from you last evening. I was so certain that I'd get one. I hurried home but I was disappointed." It looks like there are tear stains on it!

Postcard was mailed by a Thomas from Montreal, postmarked 5 PM, February 19, 1906 to an Antoinette in Yamaska, a small town 100 km east of Montreal. Yamaska has only about 5,000 people today, so I blanked out her family name!
The picture is of  Couchiching Beach Park, in Orillia, Ontario, which I have visited.



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