St Mary’s Church – The Amazing Paulin(e) Family

Henley Lodge, Acock’s Green

Friday, September 19^th 1884

My Dear Fred,

As I am delayed at home this week by an expressed infirmity in my knee which has before now as you remember slowed me in a similar manner this day reminds me that it will be well employed in sending you a letter in which we write in wishing you existing good health and prosperity and the usual many happy returns of the day – begins 23 years since to be emphasized as your natal day and the second during that period on which we have had to submit to your absence from the family circle at home. The query intuitively arises shall we have to celebrate another 19^th Sep without you? We hope not, for we are in a quiet sort of way respecting to day by an united remembrance of you, and sealing our good wishes with the stamp of the goblet – and we almost fancy we catch your thoughts reciprocating what we are doing, we also fancy you are drawing a dearly defined mental picture of the “old folks at home” and your several fondly attached brothers and sisters. By the time this reaches you the day I am now underlining so to speak will have gone its way into oblivion but the reference herein will I feel sure call if

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Again for one brief comparison of the sentiments connected with it and how far they were identical with us and with yourself- space cannot annihilate their mysterious interchange of mental imagery – if is could if would be too cruel. Your letters well express the existence of this mental telephone as we trust ours do to you, especial the letter as we frequently confess amongst so many here, there should be no lack of evidence of its confirmed use at home. I fear your bits in comes sketches illustrating sketching and fishing will neither be personally enjoyed nor illustrated by me this season, much as I should like either, my time is truly occupied in finding and bringing grist for the mill which latter arrangement seems to be increasingly exacting in its requirements and occasionally sets me tasks not too easily done or got rid of. I am thinking it is about the time you will return from the Skeena to Fort Victoria and your former vocation there, and hoping that the change has been in every way satisfactory to you.

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We are entering the autumn season rapidly but under agreeable auspices as regards the weather which is very fine and occasionally still hot. We have had a remarkably favourable summer and harvest time even quite a return to us of the seasons long ago which we have been saying for some time has changed for good. The farmer has been jubilant with the prospects, but he has had to suffer disappointment again by the very unremunerative prices which the produce brings him owing to the glut from the Indian and American sources. The quality is exceptionally fine and the customary growls in the pews are to be daily met with at the price of bread in proportion to the low price of wheat – we have a capital crop of potatoes in our garden called “inagumm hommins” and they deserve the title, I have found over 20 to a root, fine tubors too. Your apple aces have made fair growth two being respectively 3 and 4 feet high whilst the third cannot discover the way to grow yet, and continues very wee.

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Aunty Paulin is gone to Henley for a few days and thence she intends proceeding to London to see some old friends, she seems much better in health since she has come out of London. Louise goes next Monday to “the National Provincial asocial” in High Street Birm. In the Fruit and Italian Dept which she seems glad of – she has been long trying to acquire once more some degree of independence. The boys continue as before, whilst Florence and Amy daily attend Miss Boston’s in the Village to pursue a knowledge of dress making and we have not heard from Henley very lately but Mrs Swinburne who called a few days since informed us the Dr was very pleased with a nice letter he received from you. Some complaints or fault findings are now appearing weekly in a local obscure paper of the services, person, choir, organist + al St Mary’s but as I hear they are anonymous they do not attract us. We are all pretty well tho’ I should like your mother to feel stronger

From your very affectionate Father.

Times Colonist, 13 March 1954

Mr and Mrs T Irvine Cormack to live near Hamburg, Germany

Mr and Mrs Thomas Irvine Cormack, married this afternoon in St Mary’s Church, will soon travel to Germany to make their home near Hamburg where the groom will be stationed with the 2^nd Bn, PP CLI. The couple will travel on honeymoon to Calgary, where the groom is now stationed. He will leave for Germany at the end of March, when Mrs Cormack will return to Victoria, leaving in several month’s time to join him.

Baskets of plum blossoms, white stocks and deep pink tulips decorated the church for the ceremony. Archdeacon AE Del Nunns heard the vows of Shirley Mary, elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Oliver W Pauline, 936 Foul Bay Road, and the son of the late Alan Cormack, well-known shipbuilder, and the late Mrs Cormack.

The bride is granddaughter of the late Hon James A Macdonald, former chief justice of British Columbia, and Mrs Macdonald, and of the Hon FA Pauline, former agent-general for BC and the late Mrs Pauline.

James Gerry played traditional wedding music.

An afternoon length gown of amethyst iridescent taffeta was worn by the attractive, chesnut-haired bride. The gown was styled with full, crinolined skirt, fitted bodice trimmed with matching sequins, and boat-shaped neckline. She wore a tiny shell hat of iridescent dusky rose straw with shoulder-length veil, satin slippers and gloves to match, and carried a cascading bouquet of rosebuds shading from rose to mauve tones.

Her sister’s only attendant, Miss Carolyn Pauline wore an afternoon-length gown of pale pink corded sikl, with v-neckline, fitted bodice, bracelet length sleeves and full flared skirt. She wore a navy stray hat, navy accessories and carried a bouquet en tone.

Ronald Alexander was best man. Peter Powell and Murray Pauline, Vancouver, ushered guests to pews marked with nosegays of cream daffodils.

Reception was held at the home of the bride’s parents, where a three-tier wedding cake centred the bridal table, which was covered with a madeira cloth. Tiny Dresden vases arranged with white stocks and carnations and tall white candles in silver holders flanked the cake. Plum blossoms, iris, pink tulips and white stocks decorated the rooms. Dr Fraser Murray, Vancouver, proposed the toast.

The mother of the bride wore a flared afternoon dress of pink lilac bengaline, navy accessories and spray corsage.

Mrs Cormack donned an azure blue dressmaker suit and apricot wool topcoat for travelling on honeymoon. She wore a navy pillbox hat trimmed with white pique, white blouse and navy shoes and handbag.

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Frederick Paulin Sr to his son Frederick A Pauline, 19 Sep 1884

Marriage TI Cormack and Shirley Pauline, 1954

Marriage Thomas Irvine Cormack and Shirley Mary Pauline, 1954