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Lovingly Yours Nellie
from Portland, Maine to the
shores of Ness Lake, B.C.
This excerpt was taken from the back cover of Lovingly Yours Nellie.
Who would think that the life story of Nellie Richner and George Campbell would be told in her letters discovered by her grandchildren eighty years later.The history in these letters and articles she wrote is fascinating. George Campbell emigrated to Canada in 1909 and settled in Saskatchewan. Nellie Richner, also an American and a teacher, after meeting George and corresponding with him, left the riches of Maine in 1920 and travelled to her George and to the then primitive environment of the homesteads. Nellie's copious letters - mainly to her beloved Auntie Marie - and also to other family members were saved and passed down to various family members.
Lovingly Yours Nellie is a self-published book about our Grandparents (George and Nellie Campbell) and their journey to Canada. Me and my sister, Sandra Hyslop decided to put these amazing letters into a book. My sister, Sandra had collected over 150 letters over a 25 year span from some very elderly aunts in the United States. It turns out that these aunts were the recipients of many of the letters that we put in our book. Lovingly Yours, Nellie' is a compilation of letters and several articles that our grandmother, Nellie Campbell wrote and had published in magazines all over the world. We were fortunate enough to be presented with the 'Jeannie Clarke Local History Award' for our book. We revived our grandparent's story in this self-published volume, Lovingly Yours, Nellie.
Publicity text: "George Campbell emigrated to Canada in 1909 and settled in Saskatchewan. Nellie Richner, also an American and a teacher, after meeting George and corresponding with him, left the riches of Maine in 1920 and travelled to her George and to the then primitive environment of the homesteads. Nellie's copious letters - mainly to her beloved Auntie Marie - and also to other family members, were saved and passed down to various family members. Sandra Hyslop and Pat Klassen, two of Emerson and Jeannie' Campbell’s 10 children, through trips to Maine, calls to Luxemburg and trips to the archives at York University, managed to gather the majority of Nellie's letters and her published articles."
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