Friends with a horse

Mabel Walker on horse, Muriel McIntyre, Betty

That is definitely Betty's handwriting. 

 

More skiing fun, 1936

This must be the same skiing day we saw a while ago. Betty's dad took the friends skiing.

We have BR, who is Betty, Mr Roy, Muriel McIntyre and Mabel Walker, and, look at that, a date! March 1936, when Betty was not yet 16 years old. Because of the "Mr Roy" I'm going to say that this block capital handwriting we've seen before is definitely not Betty's. 

 I think the girl on our right, Muriel, is in the picture Francis wrote on. 

Pretty glamorous

These look like photo-booth portraits, except that one has been hand-tinted by someone.

Hard to tell from the single letters, but I think that might be my dad's handwriting on the back. It's a single sheet that was folded in half, perhaps to fit in a wallet? 

 

Mabel

This is Mabel Walker, a friend of Betty's. 

I am not sure the handwriting is my mom's, but it is the same as on the front of the photo of Joe. 

She looks like a fun person to go skiing with. 

Love, Francis

Betty and someone. 

I thought it could be a friend named Frances, but it says Francis, a man's name. 

 

Mom and ?

Definitely Betty, and some guy. 

This is my sister Diane's writing on the back; I guess no one asked Mom who the fella was.  

Cute, though!

Could this be Joe from the other day? Who knows?

Joe, whoever Joe is

It's not always true that the writing on the back of a photo provides useful information, apparently. 

I believe it says, "How do you like my wave? It's more like a Nazi salute! Do you know Bob Gregg? He is behind Tommy. He lives on Morely and knows you. This was taken before the last snowfall."

We will see more of Joe in the coming weeks, I think. I still don't know how he fits in, but perhaps he was a hometown boyfriend before Betty moved to Ottawa? Who can say?

Mystery woman

Here is someone, sitting on something that could be a WWI memorial, a big one. I sort of thought it might be Betty, but now I think not. Wrong face, wrong pose, wrong boots... similar hair. 

No info here. 

 

Youthful hijinx

I think these pictures are great, friends goofing around, taking pictures. 

I don't have dates for these at all, but let's just note that today would have been Betty's 101st birthday! 

 

Three friends

Once again, a picture of my mom and her friends, whose names she probably always remembered and so never wrote down. 

 Are they the same friends we've seen before? I'd say yes. 

Three kids

Three kids: Douglas, Betty and Bunny. 

Looking at it, I suspect that, left to right, it is actually Bunny, Betty and Doug. 

John Napoleon again

This is John Napoleon Roy, my great-grandfather, who died in 1933, not 1929 as I said before. It's sort of amazing that these little bits of paper are almost a hundred years old, and that the pictures on them are mostly as good as new. 

We saw him a few days ago, standing on his porch. 

Betty at Strang's 1945

A picture from 1945. I don't know who the Strangs were, other than friends. By this time Betty had two children. 

 

Mother and daughters

Another rare colour image. This is Mary Jean, Betty and Inez, mending something. I'd guess mid-1970s. 

No info here. 

 

Betty and Donald

Donald was quite a bit younger than Betty... maybe this one was taken around 1929 or 30? 

 

Betty's aunt

This is May Roy Smith, Betty's aunt. I guess that means she was J Frank Roy's sister. 

Picnic lunch?

Betty and Doug at a wee table. 

Huge, wide-open space around them. This is probably in Dauphin. 

 

Kids and a tent

It looks like a scene from the Grapes of Wrath, but I think it is just kids playing in a back yard. 

It is apparently on 6th Avenue South West, in Dauphin, Manitoba, some time in the mid 1920s. Douglas, Betty and someone named Ilda Free.