Into Tuft's Cove: Aunt Barb Floats About Until Rescued By Nana!

In August 2019 I finally posted a draft blog post from 2016 about my trip with my maternal Aunt Deb to visit my other maternal Aunt Barb in Ohio in 2016. Things I Learned About My Nova Scotia Roots (in Ohio)

In that blog post I wrote about the story that I heard about my Aunt Barb nearly drowning in the narrows of Halifax Harbour when she was a baby and that made it to the front page of the newspaper

With thanks to my Aunt Deb, my sister Kelly and my cousin Jodie, I have added it t the original blog post (Things I Learned About My Nova Scotia Roots (in Ohio)) and I am posting the story here as well.

The Visitors From Australia - NOT Our Moreland Kin

In 2015, while visiting my aunt Barbara in Ohio, I was shown the picture below that was taken in Tuft's Cove, Nova Scotia presumably in the summer of 1941 and is known as "Visitors from Australia" . This blog post describes my attempts to confirm the identity of the three Australian visitors.

UPDATE: In less than twenty-four hours of posting the photo, an Australian descendant of  Susan (Marrinan/Willis) Moreland (her grand-daughter) wrote that:

"Thanks for the photo.   I don't think this is my family in the photo...  In 1941 the war was on and my mother was living with my Nanna Susan Moreland (her mother-in-law).  She ... definitely didn't go overseas then or to my knowledge ever. Ena Mary Moreland (that's what written on her death certificate) did die on 26th August 2010.  She was 17 in 1941.   She was the daughter of Charles Moreland and Susan Moreland.   Ena was deaf and had no children.  She never went overseas, that I know for sure..."

Rather than delete this blog post about our Australian Moreland ancestors, I have decided to leave it here to honour Charles, Susan and Ena Mary Moreland (who died August 26th )and hopefully one day, I will find photographs to add to our tree.

Picture known as "Visitors from Australia" taken at Tufts's Cove, Nova Scotia
In the private collection of Barbara (Creighton) Huston
Picture taken summer 1941 with Dorothy (Moreland) Creighton and her children: Kenny was 1 (born Aug 1940), Barbara 7, Claire 11 and three visitors from Australia