“Canadian Gothic” photo depiction of a Scottish immigrant couple in the mid-1920s on parched prairie land somewhere east of the towns of Woodhouse and Claresholm in Alberta. They are my Aunt Nan and Uncle Bob Parker. –Photo courtesy of Doreen Ratsoy, Calgary, Alta.
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She was mistaken for one of her students
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