{"id":7327,"date":"2005-05-24T20:57:17","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T02:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2020-03-21T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T13:15:20","slug":"the-rivaa-medway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=7327","title":{"rendered":"The Rivaa Medway"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the places where my ancestors settled was in a little town\/area called Charleston near Liverpool in Nova Scotia. Next to Charleston is Mill Village where many of my relatives still live.<\/p>\n

The way that my family used to give directions or describe the location of something was to use the terms “up rivaa” or “down rivaa”. My dear great-grandmother was particularly notorious for this and would often ask: “Where are you going to \/ Where’ve you been, up rivaa or down rivaa.”<\/p>\n

These directions are irrelevant right now because the “rivaa” (a.k.a. the Medway River), has flooded and taken over the village.<\/p>\n

These photos were sent to me by my dad. The photos with the dates (ignore the dates – I don’t think the camera that took them has been configured yet) came from a cousin, Helen. The ones without dates come from my dad. About these, he writes: “Here are some pictures I took of the Medway River in April when I was down for Doris’s funeral. It [the flooding] wasn’t too bad then.”<\/p>\n

The last photo in this grouping is of my great-grandmother’s house, which is now owned by my cousin Darlene.<\/p>\n