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The Journal
of Walter Edward White a great grandson of William and
Mary,
(of Tickle Cove) covers a three year period from 1903 to 1906. It was
started by Walter at the
age
of 23, and tells of his life in the capital of Newfoundland. Born
the
grandson of prominent politician and master mariner, the Hon.
Edward
White and his wife Anne Weir, young Walter enjoys a shared
family
interest
in experimental agriculture at a family summer retreat in Brookfield
near
St. John's (now part of Bowring Park). He lived with his
parents in a Victorian double house, The
New
House, on the South Side of
St.
John's harbour next door to his cousins, and had begun
work among the Water Street merchants, in the Hardware Department at
Bowring Bros. & Co. During these years he
showed his
lifelong
involvement with Methodism and direct Christian service
to others,
and courts his future wife, Edith Knight. |