March 1945
21 not good but could be worse. Mr & Mrs Bell have aged terribly. Froze at night and
22 kept froze all day to-day with a very chill east wind, started to snow some in afternoon then turned to hail and rain and silver thaw. Ewen McKenzie died aged 91. He has been at James L. LePages for some years, has been very weak all winter. Mrs McKenzie still going strong.
Ewen J McKenzie
23 Pouring rain to-night. Harry McKenzie here at dinner time. They dug the grave this afternoon very little frost in ground. Road going to be very bad. They have the road opened to Rustico. Mr & Mrs Coffin must have gone to Town this afternoon with their sailor boy. Dad painting the back porch.
24 Blowing hard and snowing and drifting most of day and night. Roads bad.
25 A lovely day overhead and very beautiful but hard on the eyes. Ice gone out again. Funeral in afternoon. Mr Coffin here to supper. Thawing some.
26 44A. Mild to-day, thawed quite a lot. Ernest went to Rustico in the morning for groceries. We went down to Lornes in evening. The Germans seem to be on the run but where?
27 Wind chill, north east. Ice coming in again. Not doing much.
March 1945
30th Mrs Maggie Moffat Archibald died age 91
29th Mrs Lavinia Woolner McLeod Stanley died age 84
28 Thawed some. Ernest made a new bench for the wash room. Germans running as fast as they can and all the armies after them.
29 55A. Thawing like smoke to-day brook very high. The students getting home from College, the roads bad. Painting in washroom. Very spring like with robins singing. Black birds here too.
30 Another fine day. Good news from Europe. Thawing fast.
Good Friday
31 Just a perfect day. Finished the washroom all but the floor. Baked and washed and did part of ironing. Mr Coffin had Mrs McLeods funeral this afternoon. A bad road. The last of the George Woolner family.
April 1 Easter Sunday. And poured rain most of day but cleared up in evening and Ernest went to church. Mrs Archibald (Margaret Moffat) was buried in New Glasgow. The last of that Moffat family. Lovely Easter music to-day.
2 Mr & Mrs Coffin went to Town, took the students back to Town. Took their car from Rustico and came back
3 this evening. It snow practically all day to-day but cleared up in the evening. Colder to-night.
4 Colder to-day but a lot of the new snow disappeared. Dad and I went up to Freds this evening. Hester looks tired. She has a sore leg, hurt it two months ago.
5 Colder. Mrs Sutherland died. Dad went to Rustico for flour and butter and paint. Painted
