Further
information for Fraser Campbell Morrison
- "Oh you [Peggy Morrison-Bryan] asked about the Campbell part of
your name and Frasers. It's probably from the same source.
Your great-grandmother was a Campbell. And you know your uncle
was to have been a girl, to be called Jesie Fraser after a friend of
his mother, but it was a fourth boy, so they kept the Fraser and added
Campbell for his grandmother. His paternal grandmother.
His maternal grandmother as you know was Conn." Irene Shaw-Morrison November 16,
1964
- "[Mary Kennedy-Morrison] made the
boys learn to do in the house and it's paid off over the
years." Irene
Shaw-Morrison speaking of the boys ability to cook and clean February
9, 1955
- "I used to love [to dance] in the
days of my youth, but Fraser had no dance in his heels sooo that
ended." Irene
Shaw-Morrison December 27, 1959" So time went on. [We] moved to
Vancouver, Point Grey and West Vancouver [BC]. Back to Ritchie
Lake, NB, into St John, to Hampton, to Lachute, to Shawbridge, to
Lachute. Irene Shaw-Morrison
December 12, 1960
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Fraser
& Irene's home at 3702 16 Ave, West Point
Grey, Vancouver, BC |
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- Responding to a compliment in Fraser's
ability to pack parcels his wife Irene writes: "He retires
to the workshop [with the articles Irene has selected for shipping]
with gift paper etc etc and I saw no more until I was poked in a taxi
and told to 'mail these parcels'. He's an extra good packer and
expecially of breakables. In his youth he once had charge of soda
fountain supplies, all sorts of glass and breakable things and he
learned how to prepare for shipment." Irene
Shaw-Morrison January 10, 1963
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Friends gather at KenMor
Place. Fraser on far right with his future sister-in-law,
Beulah, on far left. |
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- "Had a letter
from Dulcie this week and a report on Frank.
Fraser says he's not surprised if his brothers
'nerves' have caught up to him, he always had them
even as a youngster, inclined to mood at times and
always inclined to be a 'cat that walked by
himself'. But its ery wearing on everybody
concerned. I know how Fraser wore me when he
had a nervous breakdown some 33 years ago, but he
was only 41 and gradually pulled out of it. He
was never crabby but didn't want to do anything on
his own. Its a very miserable
affair." Irene Shaw-Morrison
December 10, 1964
- "[Beulah] didn't
have an easy time getting [Molly, Betty and Peggy]
raised. Frank never did learn to handle money,
in fact none of the [Morrison] family did. His
father was a very poor business man and it took
Fraser a long time. Oh well, life is full of
ups and downs and makes interesting looking
back." Irene Shaw-Morrison January 18, 1965
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Three of the four Morrison boys (L-R)
Frank, Fraser and (Hugh) Neill. |
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