Salway Family Stories

Caroline Hausauer Schaffer

As told by Martha Salway: My grandmother Caroline was born in Gluckstahl, South Russia, and her parents migrated from Germany to homestead the Russian Stepps. They lived in a village composed of all Germans. The village was part of the Black Sea Colonies; the homesteaders received land grants and loans...

Garden

Alfred Edward Salway

Alfred Edward Salway By Eva Mary Rowe Salway Alfred Edward Salway was born 4 November 1880 at Plympton Devonshire England. His mother was Sarah Holman of Cornwall, his father Edward Salway of Devonshire. At an early age he traveled in a sailing ship to Jersey Channel Islands with his family,...

Let them eat cake.

This is the story as my mother tells it. This picture was taken when we lived in Cardston in a small old two bedroom rental house. The house was torn down to make way for the new hospital. As your birthdays were the same day a year apart we celebrated...

Moved to Medicine Hat 1941

1941 MOVED TO MEDICINE HAT Working for the railroad  Jack got home some week-ends, it was lonely for both of us.  One weekend when he came home he surprised me and said that he could hold a job full time in Medicine Hat.  I really did not want to move...