Beneath The Alders Newsletters

Ask Colleen - Dolls of the Early 20th Century Click Here
A History of the Colour Pink  Click Here
Jessie’s Pink Party Dress   Click Here
Special Surgeries   Click Here

Eaton’s Christmas – 1922  Click Here
The Christmas Truce of 1914   Click Here
Christmas performance at Grace Church, Brampton 1914 Click Here
Joyful Old Christmas  Click Here

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The Flowertown of Canada  Click Here
Aren't We a Little Naughty   Click Here
A Guide to giving roses   Click Here
Roses are Red and Other Famous References Click Here
Love Stories in the Beneath the Alders Series and other Fiction  Click Here

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The Christmas Dinner - Now and Then  Click Here
Nuts, Nutcrackers and Nutcracker Ballet   Click Here
Christmas performance at Grace Church, Brampton 1914   Click Here
Traditional Christmas Recipes  Click Here

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Jessie on CBC Radio on November   Click Here
Ask Colleen - The History behind those serving as Chaplains and Padres  Click Here
The Brampton Cenotaph and its history  Click Here
Poignant Words  Click Here
Honour Roll and Order of Service   Click Here

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Who is William Gage  Click Here
Ask Colleen - The Long and Winding Road to TB Sanitariums in Canada  Click Here
Peel County Connections  Click Here
Excerpt from The Beleaguered  Click Here
Dedication poem on the opening of Gage Park  Click Here

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Ask Colleen Fashion Trends in the Late 19th and 20th century  Click Here
Evolution of Ready Made Click Here
Brief History of Hats  Click Here
Emily Post's Hat Etiquette Rules for Men and Women  Click Here

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Ask Colleen - Reading in the First Decades of the 20th Century Click Here
T. S. Eliot: The Readings of Henry and Jessie Click Here
John Lynch: Pioneer, Politician, Essayist and Directory Compiler Click Here

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Interview with Lorna Dueck  Click Here
Special Valentine's Card Circa 1912 Click Here
Will Kissing be Prohibited? Potions, Elixirs and Drugs Click Here
Ask Colleen - The Movement to Ban Kissing Click Here

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Joyful Old Christmas 1907   Click Here
Eaton's Christmas 1922  Click Here
The Christmas Truce of 1914 Humanity in the face of horror  Click Here

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Jessie Current on CBC Radio November 11, 1999   Click Here
War Letters Home as Printed in Brampton's The Conservator   Click Here
About Letters from the Front   Click Here
Ask Colleen - The Writers of the Letters from the Front    Click Here
Surplus Women    Click Here

2021 Ontario Culture Days video (on Jesse Perry)  Click Here
The Life and Times of Jesse Perry   Click Here
The old Brampton churches    Click Here
Ask Colleen - Canada's Postal Service    Click Here

Back to School ... in 1912: A view of Ontario's Primary Schools of Time    Click Here
The Evolution of the Brampton High School: A comparison of School Life in the 1890s and 1920s    Click Here
Ask Colleen - Transformation of Education in Ontario     Click Here

Ask Colleen - Post WW1 Travel    Click Here
The Melita, the Montnairn and the Magic   Click Here
The Diary Dilemma    Click Here
Interview: A Journey to Remember     Click Here

The Mighty Etobicoke   Click Here
Ask Colleen - Hurricane Hazel   Click Here
The Heart Lake Mystery   Click Here
Video - Etobicoke Creek   Click Here

Life at Victoria College in the Early 1920’s    Click Here
Ask Colleen: Nursing in and around World War 1    Click Here
Perkins Bull Convalescent Hospital for Canadian Officers    Click Here
Author bids farewell to beloved historical fiction series set in Brampton    Click Here

Demobilization: A Logistical Challenge for the Times    Click Here
Dependants in Demobilization Process    Click Here
Brampton as the County Seat    Click Here
Open Book Interview    Click Here

Lessons from the Spanish Flu   Click Here
Questions to Colleen: About The Spanish Flu   Click Here
Railway Fever    Click Here