Signal Sea Changes PDF
24 Pages·1997·1.6147 MB·other
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This book tells the stories of two Dorchester belles, daughters of two of the shiretown’s [Dorchester, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada] leading shipbuilders. Emma Chapman O’Neal (1849-1931) defied her family to marry one of the shipyard labourers who then went on to become a captain of sailing vessels (she sailed with him on many voyages) and eventually of steamships for a London line. After years in Scotland, the couple retired to Dorchester where they did much charitable work (including restoring the old Methodist cemetery). In her widowhood Emma became a close friend of Lady Smith, widow of Sir Albert, a one-time political rival of her father and brother, and with her one of Dorchester’s last grande dames. Sarah (Nellie) Palmer (1875-1954), an only child, led a privileged life at ‘Woodlands’, one of Dorchester’s finer homes in its day, and studied music at Mount Allison Ladies’ College [Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada] before embarking on a series of fashionable sojourns in New York City where she continued her music studies and took French lessons. Her marriage to dentist George Ryan brought further adventure when the couple moved to Paris to serve a rich clientele and left just ahead of the invading Nazis. An inveterate letter-writer, Nellie left a rich legacy of her correspondence to the Mount Allison University Archives.
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