Uncle Dick and Aunt Florrie

We followed Ross Skori and his son a short distance south of their residence and across the road to what was the home of Uncle Dick and Aunt Florrie. We are not certain if this was located in the northeast quarter of Section 32 or the southeast quarter.  It seems that at some point Aunt Florence did own the southeast quarter (the Kinsella history indicates the southeast quarter was also at one time owned by the Tonkins) but we did not travel very far down the road from the Skori house which is in the northwest quarter of Section 33 and Ross indicated the Candy's were in the northeast quarter. So until we find information to the contrary we will say Dick and Florrie lived on NE Section 32.  If that is the case, though we did not realize it during our visit, the Morken's are the current owners of the property once occupied by Dick and Florrie Candy in addition to the Henry and Lylie Candy homestead.  They could have shed some light on the current use of the buildings.

Uncle Dick was a blacksmith, who apprenticed under Great-Grandpa James, Lylie's father, before leaving St. Just, Cornwall for Canada. Below is a photo of Dick and Florrie from 1934.  If this was taken in the house shown above the best guess is they were in the corner of the house shown in the back right. Around the corner there is a window which corresponds to the window behind and to the left of Florrie.

Uncle Dick and Aunt Florrie (1934)

In addition to the house Uncle Dick's shop, the barn and other outbuildings, and an outhouse still stand. The vantage point of the barn photo below was taken standing between the house on the left and the shop on the right.

Barn and other outbuildings - Pink dog house is probably not original!

Below is a photo of Uncle Dick from 1929, not too long after Dick and Florrie were married.  The barn in the background seems to be the same building seen in the recent photo above, perhaps taken from inside a corral on the far side.  It would make sense that the corral would be behind the barn to provide a little separation from the house.   How I now wish I had walked to the other side of the barn and taken a picture of the back side!  The knoll seen in the right background of the recent photo above looks to be behind Uncle Dick on the left.  The stupid pink dog house blocks the view of the barn but it does not look like there is a large sliding door on the front side.  A photo of the far side showing the barn door would have clinched it that the buildings in the two photos are one and the same. Rats!

Uncle Dick Candy (1929)

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Jan and Ross Inspect the Shop

Vise in front of the shop.  Ross says it was there when he was a kid.

Shop planking

Cousin Lorene says she remembers the outhouse from 1955, now Janet does too.!

We saw no people, but there were cats