15. | Isabella Erskine THOMPSON was born on 21 Sep 1899 in London, Ontario, Canada (daughter of Alexander Cecil THOMPSON and Annie Eleanor JACOBS); died in in Victoria, British Columbia. Notes:
Per Jim Johnson 1-25-02:
The Thompsons: My grandmother Isabel Thompson and her two older sisters, Beth and Alice, got
into a car in London and drove across Canada to the West. They did jobs along the way as
stenographers or whatever for money. My grandmother met her husband at Bulman's Ranch in the Okanagan Valley of BC. That's where they settled and my mother and her siblings were born and raised.
I always thought my grandmother's and Alice's story of working their way across Canada was
romantic and exciting. Imagine three sisters on their own in the 1920s. I've always imagined George Jacobs as being another kind of romantic adventurer type.
Per Jim Johnson 2-25-02:
Apparently Grandma Buffum (Isabella Thompson) did a radio show in Vernon at one time. I only heard that when she died and I was at my aunt's house in Victoria and a guy came over to get info for her eulogy.
Grandma had an affected accent that was not normal Canadian. It was a put-on British accent, and in her defense I would point out that, after all, her mother had been around the Empire, and her grandfather was born and raised in Britain.
|