Christmas in Ontario
It’s the 20th December and to shut out the looming panic of shopping lists only half completed we’ll turn instead to Christmas across the seas and see how our Canadian family used to celebrate the festive season.
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| Christmas Letter Home 1904 |
We’ve talked before about the extensive emigration collection which the Together Trust still holds within its archive. The letters written back to the charity contained all kinds of subjects; news about crossings, what life was like in Canada, the various animals looked after and requests for news at home.
Christmas was also a popular time for letter writing and this note written in 1904 gives a good sense of how Christmas was spent in Ontario. It involved the traditional Christmas dinner, ‘two kinds of cake’, ‘berry pie’, an ‘English plum pudding which was made in England ’, ‘candies, oranges, apples and pop-corn’. A motto card was sent to all the children from England to remind them of the ‘old country’.
Christmas was also a popular time for letter writing and this note written in 1904 gives a good sense of how Christmas was spent in Ontario. It involved the traditional Christmas dinner, ‘two kinds of cake’, ‘berry pie’, an ‘English plum pudding which was made in England ’, ‘candies, oranges, apples and pop-corn’. A motto card was sent to all the children from England to remind them of the ‘old country’.
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| Christmas Letter Home 1904 |
We’ll revisit how these children would have spent Christmas back in England next week. Until then back to worrying about the Christmas shopping!
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