On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 10:18:18 UTC-3, Tim wrote:
7:17 AMTrue North
When we visited my Cape Breton grandparents all through the '50s and very early '60s we used an outhouse and water was delivered from a well by a hand pump mounted at the kitchen sink.

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Yessir. I was still a baby when my grandparents got rid of the wood cook stove and got an electric range in the mid-1950s

I remember the old wood burning kitchen stove. It also heated water. Not sure if it was a Kemac or something similar but the house always had a familiar odor that I instantly recognized on our once a year visits.