Joseph Heffernan - Saskatchewan - Found!

[liverpool annie]

I'm Hijacking this to say Hi Thelma!!

Hope you had a good Christmas!! 

(Nice job - by the way!! 

Annie

[KarenM]

Hi Thelma,

Thanks so much for that information.  I will follow up with the Homestead information.

Karen

[J.J.]

http://www.lin.ca/resource/html/biblio.htm

Hockeystories from the "Heffernan Scrapbook." 1923  Could be related


Donna's find is also mentioned ( What great reading those old town histories are)
Not always accurate, though, as they rely on oral history, but wonderful none the less.

[J.J.]

From an old listing dated 2000...?
Found here!   
http://www.canobits.ca/

HEFFERNAN--Blanche Allene, 92, Regina


YAY! Another site for us to use...I shall add this to our resources in Canada list!

[J.J.]

Could this also be a relative of some kind?
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cansk/SaskatchewanAndItsPeople/VolumeIII/HeffernanJohnH.html

[KarenM]

JJ!!

You are a star.  Here is one of my postcards, signed Blanche Allene H, saying arrived in Lang.  On the other side it's address to Jno Heffernan at my grandma's house.   I'm so excited!  Now I need to figure out how to read the obit, 2000 is not that long ago.

That's interesting about the Hockey scrapbook.

In the spirit of the game tommorrow night Canada vs. Russia, did you know that the term "hat trick" originated in Guelph, Ontario.  The Biltmore Hats Company would give a new hat to the fellow who scored three goals in one game, hence a hat trick.

Karen

[J.J.]

What a wonderful postcard...
It looks for all the world like copper tooling with all the debossing!
Uh, Wait a minute...
So this Blanch was a sweetheart? 1907?  I am afraid, then that this little
Blanche must have been a daughter as 2000 minus 92 is 1908...?
( could the mother have written it on behalf of a one year old? )
O.K. Now I am confused....Here is where the stories get interesting...and tough!
 

P.S. Thanks for the hat trick info...I did not know that!!!!

[KarenM]

It's actually a piece of leather.  It has on the back ...... Co. New York.

I see now that perhaps this must be a daughter?  Here is another postcard from Lang, Sask. which notes "my sisters and I".  It's addressed to the same address, but to my great-uncle Joe Bowman.  However I can't figure out what the first letter of his name is _rland?  Any suggestions.

If I assume this is a daughter-in-law (Joseph's wife) to Jno Heffernan, why is she sending him a sweethart card in the month of October?  Hmmm, although through the different postcards I have, they had quite the sense of humour.

Karen

[J.J.]

Well I thought it was a stylized "E" but there is one earlier in Easter...
This person has fun trying to make capital letters, so probaly never wrote often
 I found an Orland Cole in the 1906, but don't know how to see where he
was from in Sask...  (South Forkpost office) -. 8. 21. 3. 1. 5. 31.
He is 59 and born in England... Long shot, but just in case this is a family name....

At least we know the name Orland was actually used.!!!

There are some handwriting experts in the England threads....they are quite amazing...as I don't see what they see until they point it out to me...  J.J.