The House That Jack Built [Poem by Joan Donnelly Ellis set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2013-11-14

This is a poem sent to me by Joan Donnelly Ellis, who grew up in the village of Farran's Point in Ontario. Farran's Point was one of the so named Lost Villages flooded in July 1958 for construction of the St Lawrence Seaway.

It tells a fascinating story of what life was like there in the early 1950's. 

Joan also supplied the images in the video. Some of these are her own family pictures. Some are marked with the emblem of the Lost Villages Historical Society who have very kindly given permission for them to be used. You can find out about the society here:
http://lostvillages.ca/

You can read the poem in full here:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onstormo/bits-of-history.html