Six years later, the distance between the Henrys has increased. He and Caroline begin regular visits, and romance begins to bloom between them. Meanwhile, Al, the truck driver who assisted Caroline on the night of Phoebe's birth, discovers her whereabouts. David sends money to Caroline and makes a half-hearted attempt to find out where Caroline and Phoebe live. Caroline claims that Phoebe is her daughter and tells a half-true story of running away from Phoebe's father because he wanted to institutionalize Phoebe.Ĭaroline sends letters and pictures of Phoebe to David. Meanwhile, Caroline begins working for Dorothy "Doro" March as a private nurse for her father, Leo. They move to a new home but continue to find it difficult to romantically connect. The "death" of their daughter has caused a rift in David and Norah's marriage. Caroline leaves for Pittsburgh to make a fresh start with Phoebe. After hearing that Caroline had kept Phoebe rather than take her to the institution, David bids her to do what she thinks is right. Meanwhile, David tells Norah that their daughter died at birth. She is picked up by a truck driver, Al Simpson, who drives them to Caroline's home. While Caroline is at the store, her car runs out of gas and she is stranded in the snow with Phoebe. She decides to keep and raise the baby, who is named Phoebe. David, recalling the possibility of a heart defect and early death (which his younger sister June had had dying at the young age of twelve) and decides that the baby girl will be placed in an institution.Ĭaroline was given the baby to take to the institution, but simply didn't like the conditions. Their first child, a boy they name Paul, is born a healthy perfect child, but when the second baby is born, Phoebe, David notices she has Down syndrome. David Henry is forced to deliver his wife Norah's twins with the help of a nurse, Caroline Gill. Some residents of her street went on to fame.In early March 1964, Dr. “The families wrote me their backgrounds in letters - anywhere from a few pages to 10 pages.” Lalande said she had documented the history of about 150 Flour Mill francophone families in five large binders. She volunteers a lot at the Flour Mill Museum.” “She has single handedly worked to preserve a list of the francophone families in the Flour Mill. “The honour for Jeannine is well deserved,” Greater Sudbury museums curator Jim Fortin said. To help document this history, Lalande is developing a power point presentation of an imaginary electric car ride, featuring scenes from Sudbury as far back as 1910. That is just an indication of the sense of community there was then.” The regular driver of the street car, Pat Savard, knew this and would let the kids onto the car for free when they were going swimming. Germain, who said there were many large families who struggled with finances in the Flour Mill area. “I can remember getting on the street car on Notre Dame Avenue when I was nine, to travel to the beach at Ramsey Lake with my friends,” she said.Īccording to Lalande, the street car, in the 1940s, traveled downtown to Durham Street to Elgin Street and then up Paris to Elizabeth Street where Austin Airways had a building beside Lake Ramsey. As a youth she was excited by the electric street cars. She became interested in the stories about the Flour Mill. I had a lot of blueberry memorabilia there.” “We used to have our organizing meetings there and when the festival was on, we opened it to the public. She was known for being the author of “le cookbook Sudbury” and she organized a Blueberry Den in a small building beside her house. He could direct you to the resources you needed for a project.” “He would follow though with my ideas and dreams about the blueberry festival. He was very enthusiastic about blueberries,” she added. Lalande said she enjoyed working with Mayor Wong on the blueberry festival. She was assisted by former mayor Peter Wong, Charbonneau said. I work and work at something until I achieve it.įlour Mill amateur historianeAmong her many achievements was the initiation of the city-wide Sudbury Blueberry Festival in the mid 1980s.
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