Page 4 - With Mungie MacNeil of Iona Rear
Published by Ronald Caplan on 1992/1/1 (353 reads)
someone for 16 years, is it easy to part?) Oh, yeah. You know, you don't get that in? timate, you know what I mean. You like them and you work for them, but you--it's a different life altogether. It's almost like going to the convent. So, I was home then for nearly a year, or part of a year, before the place was ready at Westmount, and I went there. Looked af? ter the priests. But I had another girl with me, a girl I knew from Passchendaele. I took her with me as a helper. And I was there-- oh, I was there until my brother died at home (at lona Rear), and I had to come home to help. He told me before he died that he wanted me to go home. You know, to help. My mother was a widow then, and she was old. Sadie MacNeil. Mungie's sister: I was home. Mungie: Yeah. But he said you weren't capa? ble of looking after the farm! Congratulations to Cape Breton's Magazine on its 20th Anniversary! From your friends at Bank of Montreal. Ashby 562-5586 Cabot House 562-9520 Glace Bay 849-5524 Port Hawkesbury 625-1250 Sydney Main Office 562-9500 Joe's Warehouse The Food Emporium Cape Breton's Largest and Finest Restaurant Specializing in Aged Prime Cuts of Roast Beef and Steal
Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to the PDF version of this content. Click here to download and install the Acrobat plugin
