The Icelandic Canadian - 01.12.2001, Page 27

Vol. 56 #3
THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
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was taken to their cottages at Gimli. My
uncle took me to visit Betel. Emily would
then have been there about 2 years, and I
had missed her frequent visits to our farm.
She was nowhere to be found. She was not
in the main floor living room or lounge
area; not in her tiny room up the promi-
nent flight of stairs. Finally, a member of
the staff was asked. We were advised to
check the kitchen. There was Emily, in the
great hospital-style kitchen. She was scour-
ing out huge 5 gallon soup kettles which
dwarfed her tiny frame in size. That tells all
about Emily Long, then age 82. She could
not be without work to do.
A cousin, Ben Peterson of Saskatoon,
himself a veteran, had at one time arranged
for Emily to have a small pension through
the intervention of the Canadian Legion, in
appreciation of her wartime service to the
wounded of the Great War. In those days,
there was no Canada Pension, and the stan-
dard old-age pension would not have sup-
ported anyone in the 1950s.
At her death, the Legion took over,
and handled the funeral, with full honors.
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to cocus and characterized by local inflamma-
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