Kindred Footprints: Mother Monica ~ Bonus Postcard

In the course of researching St. Joseph's Hospital in Port Arthur, ON for my five part series on Mother Monica, I found this postcard for sale on Ebay so of course I had to buy it. The postcard was mailed from Port Arthur, ON in 1915 and represents the hospital after the 1900 and 1905 additions were added. It has a two cent Canadian stamp, cancelled on August 28, 1915. Since Mother Monica was there and running the hospital at this time, it's kind of special ;-)

Related Posts:
Mother Monica ~ Part I - Part II - Part III - Part IV - Part V
Mother Monica ~ Bonus Postcard
Mother Monica ~ Tombstone Tuesday

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marble stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder how you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
~ Author Unknown ~

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