Savard WI Tweedsmuir Community History, Volume 5, [1911] - [1969], p. 2

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Description of? pictures (e) (11) This picture of Harold Atkinson was taken while picking blueberries in the early l950's. Harold was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Atkinson. ' (12) This picture of Frank Hensbery and Tan was taken bn the family farm in the early 1920's. Frank's sister, Susan, is standing in the door. They are the '. children of Mr. and lira. Tom Henebery. Later Frank took over the farm, and ' farmed there for a number of years before moving, to Englehart. (IS) The School Picnic at s. S. Ho. 3, Robillard in the 1950's.It is small and _ there are so many in it that it is hard to identify many of the people. Joe Simms is on the extreme right, Next to him at about the same height is Mea?- _ _geret Henebery ( Mrs. Campbell Sample). Next to her is Mrs. Tom Henebery. The man underneath the hat that is up on a stick looks like Ed Birch. Next I, to him is Norman Macdonald. Next to Norman on the left and more forward is _ ' f Gertie Hughes (Mrs. Fred Pym). Next to her is Bill Hughes. The girl next to, end slightly behind Bill, with her face partly obscured, looks like Phyllis _ Henebery ( Mrs. .Bernard Hughes). Mrs. Joe Simms is sitting down an the grass at the front. At the left with the pan on his head is Ted Birch. Next to him is Ernie Sager. The two next to Ernie with the hats on look like Clark Smith . (Smitty) and Geoffry Hughes, Jr. Note the "little cold building" at the right. V:' .,'," (IA) This is Fred Shadiek's first house near the shore of Long Lake in the 1920's. _ _ It was here that Rudolf Flack owned a narrow strip of land between the shore _ of the lake and Shadick's house. The fact that Fred had to cross this land to get to the lake was a "Bone of Contention" between them for years. (15) S. S. No. (5 Robillard School in 1929. /'/;'. sy,'" (16) Zeta Post Office at Gregory‘s Narrows. This was taken either in the late 1923's or early 1950's. It still looked like this when the writer spent a night there late in the fall of? 1939. (17) This was taken looking up the Blanche River from the Attwater homestead in the _ early winter of 1919. The Tail fence is on the Attwater homestead. The buiLi- ings are just across the line on the next lot. They were occupied at that time by Ben Densmore. Dad (Charlie) Sager bought the lot in 1921. Asa Parcels lived there before Densmore. Tara Derby was living there in 1909. There were lumber camps operated from that site on several occasions in the early days. (18) This was the first barn on the Attwater homestead, built by Oswald and Andrew in 1909. The picture was taken many years later. ' (l9) Hewling logs on the Attweter homestead somethue between 1910 and 1920. The hills in the background are on the far side of the Blanche River. The teams name was Prince and Dewey. . . (20) Logspiled on the ice of the Blanche River waiting for the break-up. This was rm taken from the Attwater homestead looking down the river sometime between 1910 , and 1980, The buildings in the background are those belonging to Fred Pumsie1. The house is on the right. The top part of the barn can be seen at the left. v'-. (21) Barn raising on the Attwater homestead in 1919. All would be local men, but the "'-, only one I can recognize is my grandfather, John Imdrews, on the extreme right.

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