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Lovingly Yours, Nellie: Letters Home and Other Stories from Portland, Maine to the Shores of Ness Lake, British Columbia

by Nellie R. Campbell; Edited by Sandra Hyslop and Patricia Klassen

434 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); illustrated; catalogue #04-2179; ISBN 1-4120-4371-9; US$31.30, C$36.00, EUR25.71, £18.00

Follow the lives of Nellie Richner Campbell and her family through the Saskatchewan Prairies to Central British Columbia where they homesteaded.

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About the Book

Who would think that the life story of Nellie Richner and George Campbell would be told in her letters discovered by her grandchildren eighty years later. The history in these letters and articles she wrote is fascinating. George Campbell emigrated to Canada in 1909 and settled in Saskatchewan. Nellie Richner, also an American and a teacher, after meeting George and corresponding with him, left the riches of Maine in 1920 and travelled to her George and to the then primitive environment of the homesteads.

Nellie's copious letters - mainly to her beloved Auntie Marie - and also to other family members, were saved and passed down to various family members. Sandra Hyslop and Pat Klassen, two of Emerson and Jeannie' Campbell's 10 children, through trips to Maine, calls to Luxemburg and trips to the archives at York University, managed to gather the majority of Nellie's letters and her published articles. Here they have compiled them into an amazing history of these early settlers in Saskatchewan and British Columbia through Nellie's eyes. Her perpetual optimism and cheerfulness under harsh conditions that one can only imagine are an example for those of us that follow.

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About the Editors

Our Grandmother, Nellie R. Campbell is the original author of these letters and published articles that are printed in our book. She passed away in 1961 and my sister, Sandra Hyslop, and myself, Pat Klassen have edited and compiled this book.

Sandra Hyslop lives in Kamloops, British Columbia with her husband Larry and has four grown children, Erich Hilbrecht, Joyce Taylor, Larry Hyslop Jr. and Juanita Hyslop-Cato.

Pat Klassen lives in Prince George with her husband Bill and has two grown daughters, Lindsay and Jennifer.

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