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From: Annette Fulford <>
Subject: WW1 War Bride Dorothy Abraham
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 07:31:35 -0700

There is a photograph and an article about WW1 War Bride Dorothy Abraham
online at the address below:

Tofino Time: Tofino History
What's in a Name? Abraham Drive
by Adrienne Mason, Tofino

It was 1919 and Dorothy Abraham, an English war bride, had arrived to
homestead on Vargas Island with her husband Ted. Ted Abraham had first come
to the west coast with his brother Arthur, sisters Violet and Eileen, mother
Mrs. Malon, and half-siblings, Yvonne and Pierre. Mrs. Malon and her younger
children lived near the present location of the Vargas Inn and Ted and
Arthur built waterfront cabins a few miles away.

The Abraham-Malon family was part of the wave of settlers that came to
Vargas Island just prior to World War I. (As Ted Abraham would later recall,
"Canada was a good place to start on nothing.")

The remainder of the article can be read at
http://www.tofinotime.com/main.htm?articles/A-T604-18frm.htm~BDfrm

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