Connections
I’m always amazed by the obscure connections people have with each other - seemingly in the middle of nowhere. This woman, Louisa MacKenzie, was born in 1793 in Northern Alberta - around the same time her father’s cousin became the first European to traverse Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Traveling all the way to Ontario would have been a feat in of itself around that time but somehow she did, married a couple of times, and ultimately was the great grandmother of Dr. Norman Bethune, - a Canadian icon. She died in 1833 and was laid to rest here in a very small cemetery accessible by gravel road and forest path. I’m sure at the time, it would have been a picturesque area on a cliff overlooking the shores Lake Superior - before nature reclaimed it.
Connections
I’m always amazed by the obscure connections people have with each other - seemingly in the middle of nowhere. This woman, Louisa MacKenzie, was born in 1793 in Northern Alberta - around the same time her father’s cousin became the first European to traverse Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Traveling all the way to Ontario would have been a feat in of itself around that time but somehow she did, married a couple of times, and ultimately was the great grandmother of Dr. Norman Bethune, - a Canadian icon. She died in 1833 and was laid to rest here in a very small cemetery accessible by gravel road and forest path. I’m sure at the time, it would have been a picturesque area on a cliff overlooking the shores Lake Superior - before nature reclaimed it.