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  • THE CHASE IS ON…BUTWHO IS CHASING WHOM?

    THE CHASE IS ON…BUTWHO IS CHASING WHOM?







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  • FRUMP…TRUMP BEING CHASED BY GOOSE AND MOOSE

    Marjorie broke out laughing as I did…thanks for sending John…assume I can forward it (hope I can) IF so, can you resend as I lost when I removed source…used bbc so no one would steal source.
  • Canadians are loved and respected by some Americans…if noon by the King of Chaos

    Canadians are loved and respected by some Americans…if noon by the King of Chaos





    There are Americans who love us even if the KING OF CHAOS does not.

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  • EPISODE 1,233 –EDWARD FREEMAN EX HEAD GARDENER—PERSUASION EXAGERRATION: PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES — 1900 -1914

    EPISODE 1,233 –EDWARD FREEMAN EX HEAD GARDENER—PERSUASION EXAGERRATION: PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES — 1900 -1914




    EPISODE 1,233 –EDWARD FREEMAN EX HEAD GARDENER—PERSUASION, EXAGERRATION: PAMPHLETS AND BROCHURES — 1900 -1914

    THE DECISION


    alan skeoch
    february 11, 2025

    Edward Freeman decided
    to migrate to Canada sometime between 1900 and 1905.
    Was it a spur of the moment decision or was it carefully planned like his flower gardens
    at Eywood?   I never asked him even though there were many opportunities to do so.


    250,000 others decided to immigrate in 1905…the biggest spike
    occurred in 1910when 400,000 immigrants arrived  in Canada.
    The Edward Freeman family were part of this mass movement of
    people from the old world to the new world.  How is this explained?


    EXPLAINING WHY EDWARD FREEMAN EMIGRATED TO CANADA IN 1905

    A good part of the explanation can be summed up in one word, “advertising”
    much of it done by one man, “Clifford Sifton”

    Bright coloured optimistic brochures were sent to England and elsewhere in Europe.
    Towards the end of the 19th century Canada’s Minister of the Interior authorized 
    a seemingly endless stream  of positive paper images of Canada.

    “Clifford Sifton, the Minister of the Interior from 1896 to 1905, was the driving force behind the greatest immigration scheme in Canadian history. Through his efforts, the Department of the Interior distributed tens of thousands of pamphlets similar to this 30-page atlas on western Canada. The atlas describes the opportunities and the free homesteads that were available for prospective immigrants in western Canada. The style is flamboyant and spectacular  –  not to mention overstated  –  and had some similarities to a travelling “medicine show.”


    Front cover of Canada West



    One historian notes that the flood of propaganda that glorified Manitoba was no just restricted
    to brochures.   Photography, especially photographic post cards, also boosted emigration to
    Canada WEst (i.e. Manitoba)


    Ocean liners specialized in transporting settlers.   Such as The Allan Line ‘Victoria’
    that EdwardFreeman chose … They boarded the Victoria in 1905 on its maiden voyage…landed

     at St. John, New Brunswick and then by an immigrant train to Toronto, Ontario.








     
    HOMESTEADING…WAS NOT AS PRETTY AS A POSTCARD OR A GOVERNMENT BROCHURE


  • EPISODE 1,230 : PLANT COLLECTORS CATALOGUES 1879 AND 1883 …AND A BOTHY WHERE UNDER GARDENERS STUDIED

    EPISODE 1,230 : PLANT COLLECTORS CATALOGUES 1879 AND 1883 …AND A BOTHY WHERE UNDER GARDENERS STUDIED

    EPISODE   1,230 :  PLANT COLLECTORS CATALOGUES 1879 AND 1883 …AND A BOTHY WHERE UNDER GARDENERS STUDIED


    alan skeoch
    february 5, 2025

    Estate owners like those at AUDLEY END loved novelty plants.  plant collectors scoured the world for them.
    Head Gardeners expected their under gardeners to study plantings in the tiny bothy room that was often
    built into the brick surrounded gardens.  New estate owners often brought their gardeners with them to plan
    the estate gardens.  The salaries varied from 50 to 100 pounds per year plus room and possibly board.
    There  was dignity in being a head gardener.  Only thing wrong was tipping your hat to accept inferiority.
    But life was good.  life might even be better in Canada.  It was not so.

    When Edward Freeman migrated to Canada he expected something similar.  He was wrong…and had to
    become a carpenter and during World War One he was a munitions maker…artillery shell casings on a metal lathe.  His gardening days
    were nearly forgotten.  But not quite.  He eventually created his own estate garden on a piece of rock strewn
    swamp land in Erin Township, Wellington County.  That took time and he had many shocks in the adjustment
    to Canadian life.  Why did he migrate?  I think he was tricked by false advertising. Canada was not all bread and honey.
    More of that story is yet to come.

    Have you ever had your house burn down?  Have you ever had to step on the bottom rung of a ladder…i.e. start all over again?

    Take a seat in the bothy below and read the plant catalogues. Note the fire place.  Lots of fires in Canada in those days.

    alan