Descendants of Frederick and Mary Paulin gather here
Winnipeg Tribune 30 May 1930
[Auction]
Lot B-9060-35 boxes, 2 tin trunks, 1 crowbar, 1 small trunk. Stored on July 7th, 1923 by the late Mr WE Cutler.
[Wonder what happened to the trunk? Just think what it could have contained – personal papers, fossils?]
Winnipeg Tribune, 3 Dec 1923
An illustrated lecture on “the Dinosaurs of the Red Deer Valley” will be given by WE Cutler in the old university building this evening at 8.15 before the Natural History Society of Manitoba. This lecture will be open to the public. As a collector of specimens for the British Museum Mr Cutler has a unique knowledge of this great natural storehouse of extinct fauna.
June 11, 1883
My dear Fred,
I have been unable to send you definite news respecting myself before this. As you know I have been suffering from sudden tactics by Trolx and just got on again with WB Glass & Co Cigar and Cigarette Manufacturer Bristol. As far as I can judge my inconvenience of late can be (with health) easily repaired. The pay is £180 per ann. + 10% on all sold “excess” over 200 £ a month with 15% deducted on bad debts made. It is I think a fair arrangement + I have an agreement coupled with an assurance for a permancy. So with good luck it is the best thing I have yet had in the cigar way. Glass & Co one side to be people with money my pen would write it plain.
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We are all tolerably well and always looking out for a letter from Winnipeg. I saw Blaunton last evening Sunday at Mr Gilchrist’s house. He arrivd from Brandon Wednesday night last. He will bring out house with you at Winnipeg on his way back (1st August) when he returns any thing which may suggest itself to you to be of service commercially or otherwise. Is there any agency which you could work? Shall I send you the box of cards price lists +c from Suttons. They will send them back to me if you would like to have them. Blaunton is going in for cattle medicines from Day Son + Hewetts firm I think.
Worcester Festival came off last Thursday. I went. Weather was better than it was 3 years back. We dined at The Hop Market Hotel – choir clergy + organist.
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The beadle of course was of the party no other visitors. The Dr supported chair on left + I next him. I told him at dinner table there was one occasion which you especially regretted missing + that was the visit to Worcester.
The service passed off well + all returned edified by the day’s proceedings. Mr Preston Senr generally enquires after you. Could you send some Jel I thing?
The “John Bright” demonstration has absorbed Birm today. The procession was endlessly lengthy beginning at Sewall Heath – Paper with account thereof – will go with this letter. My opinion of the proceedings is you may guess a no 1 – very bright one.
Barton of Brandon tells me a dollar with you is about equal to our “bob” here as a medium of change + barter.
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We have had an immeasurably dry spring here and rain is much wanted, this in some parts of England it has fallen within these last few days in large quantities. Our turn soon I s’pose. The garden looks fairly well. I put some marrow plants out Sat last on same site remodelled as last year. A row of runners the entire width of strip nearly say 30 yards, is doing well as last year under bottom hedge – annuals, pansies + other thing with kignonellea promise well. The Henley fold are I think all right. Louise smiles cheerfully from Swansea – plenty of good living and bathing just reworked ought to suit her.
Our united affection to you my boy – from your very affectionate father.
Memorandum “La Invincidad” Works
Summer Row, Birmingham
Wm Trott & Co
Cigar Manufacturers
April 26th 1883
My dear Fred
We received yours dated April 7th by last delivery yesterday. It came to hand just as I was finishing a little gardening for want of daylight. I am getting the place gradually into form in the way of pruning + planting the gravelling and decorative department remains much as when you were here. The peas are just thro’ and I have saw dusted their rows to keep the birds off. We have had some 10 days or so of really favorable weather since you left, this changed however into a very uncomfortable condition of North East Wind with occasionally an introduction of snow or hail or sleet. We are all pretty well, the East wind seems to be bent on mischief especially in the way of chills + eye affections, my own + 2 or 3 of the little ones having been inflamed thereby – otherwise the hedges are coming freshly green again and would make rapid progress with more sun + warm showers. The land is dry and would benefit by some warm rain. We have some climbing plants viz woodbine + others about the port + brick piers of the bays which I purchased a few days ago at Cave’s Mosely St if these do well + grow freely the front bare effect will
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Soon be changed. The front beds are sowed with annuals having the larger kinds lupins, sunflowers poppies sweet peas +c in the back ground. We will describe the progress of our floral and vegetable crop as it assumes sufficient importance and interest to be worth notice. We have a letter from Louise who is as I think I told you in last, at Swansea and has a very comfortable place there with kind people. She writes very cheerfully and will be pleased to be told about your Winnipeg letter. We are hoping now to hear that your first venture will be a big success in the way remunerative and that your employer will know sooner how to appreciate you that Chas Collins did. I called there 2 days ago + he gave me the Comm coming to me some 3.11.0 odd. We are told that his manner has been of the 2 worse than ever since you both left. Wens to the tiring journey you had in the train and that you have comfortable apartments. The extra expense provides for it. Winter seems to linger in the lap of spring with a vengeance this year and we have concluded in hope that you are both well tho’ you do not [illegible] your condition of health. I shall be interested to follow your impressions as time goes on and opinion on your future. I am again in an uncertainty of occupation. Trott is adopting shifting tactics (now that he thinks he has made a connection) by putting me on an impossible commission footing + I am seeking other arrangements with some one else – the best market of course I can find my connection – Trade during the last 3 months has been exceptionally band and cash invisible. One Richard Paulin kept a bakery some years ago and related to grandpa as a cousin. Mrs Weyman builders wife was his daughter. Much love – hoping to hear again. From your affectionate father FP
Here is the map for Frederick Arthur Paulin(e) taking into account his addresses in Winnipeg, Victoria, Skeena River, and London when he was agent general.
The Winnipeg Tribune, 26 January 1924
Cutler urges Museum Here
Professor Scientist Tells of Pre-History Life on Western Plains
Intimate details of the lives of giant reptiles who were probably the most prominent citizens of the Red Deer Valley, Alberta, 4000000 years ago, were revealed by Prof WE Cutler, FGS, in a lecture at the University of Manitoba Friday night.
Prof Cutler leaves Winnipeg Monday for German East Africa, where he will lead an expedition seeking the remains of dinosaurs who lived there aeons ago.
In his discourse the speaker deplored the lack of a provincial museum for Manitoba. Rare and valuable fossils he said, were continually being discovered in the province, and the museums of the United States were getting them.
Vegetarians saurian of the period about 4000000 BC were described by the Professor, who used numerous slides in illustrations. His investigations revealed the fact that walnut, oak, fig and sassafrass once flourished abundantly in Alberta.
Winnipeg Tribune, 17 Jan 1924
Fossil Relics Reveal History
Western Canada Enjoyed Balmy Climate 12,000 Years Ago, Says Geologist
Perfect forms of fossil [illegible] relics of ages long past, when Western Canada knew a climate much warmer than the vigorous one of today were exhibited to members of the Canadian Credit Men’s Association at their weekly luncheon today.
They were part of a collection accumulated by WE Cutler, member of the staff of the University of Manitoba, and Fellow of the London Geological Society. He was the speaker at the luncheon and his talk attracted intense interest. The fossil figs were found by him in the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan.
There is no doubt, according to Mr Cutler, that from 12000 to 20000 years ago the Cypress Hills and also Alberta, were fruit bearing territory. Not only figs grew there then, but also the accompanying plants.
During his researches in Saskatchewan and Alberta Mr Cutler unearthed large collections of dinosaur teeth and skulls of prehistoric animals, which he sent to the British museum. These relics, he said, date back to the Old Oligocene age.
The Cypress Hills are a remnant of beds that covered the whole west before they were swept away. He was not prepared to say in just what manner these beds were swept away but, in all probability, it was done by water.
“Until the later discoveries in Mongolia, Alberta it is said, was one of the richest fields in the world for searching for the remains of these ancient animals,” the speaker stated.
Mr Cutler will leave Canada shortly for England to take charge of an expedition which is being sent by the British Museum to recover dinosaurs, larger than any others unearthed in South Africa. He has not yet received definite word from England and could not give the exact date upon which he would sail.
Mr Cutler declared that Greenland once had a much warmer climate. It was never tropical, no more than the climate of Western Canada, but it was very warm. The coal beds there and also in the Red Deer district of Alberta, he said, were evidence of this. He explained that the currents of ocean govern the climate entirely. The currents pushing north made this country cold.
Birmingham Daily Gazette, 24 February 1925 page 5
Birmingham Apprentice Becomes Agent-General
Mr Frederick Arthur Pauline, the new Agent-General in London for British Columbia, arrived yesterday.
Mr Pauline was born in Henley-on-Thames in 1861, and on leaving school was apprenticed to the wholesale stationary trade in Birmingham.
In 1883 he went to Manitoba, and the following year moved to Victoria British Columbia where he built up a substantial business in dry goods, from which he retired fourteen years ago.
Some time after his retirement he entered politics, and has had a distinguished career.
The new Agent-General intends to exert his influence in inducing the industrial centres of Great Britain to take more interest in British Columbia than they have done heretofore. He feels confident that British Columbia is going to have a period of prosperity greater than at any time in her history.
Letter, Ernest Paulin to Frederick Pauline, 15 Jan 1884
Acock Green
Jan 15th 84
Dear Fred
Many thanks for the slip enclosed in George’s letter. I am much obliged to you for effecting the sale of my cards and at such good prices too, there is no wonder of some of them being damaged I consider we are very lucky at only losing one out of four.
We spent rather a quiet Xmas this time you being so far away, we had a few toasts throughout it was all “Canada” and “absent friends”
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I hope you will share our dinner at that festive time next time then we shall all be in a more rollicking mood than lately experienced. Pa was especially quiet, really quiet, the younger ones of course felt nothing of the kind and amused themselves in the usual manner.
We have generally been doing a little better lately. Pa has made twenty odd pounds this last fortnight and had the rhino too, I hope it will continue, then we shall stand a chance of reducing the National
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Debt which is not as large now as when you left. Pa has made an average £5 every week he has been with Short’s as far as I can reckon and I’m not far ont in own opinion.
Pa, Ma, and the young ones (8) are going to the P of W Pantomime to night “Cinderella” fancy that tribe to manage “what a treat” it is the fulfillment of a promise which has stood in their little mental diaries for about three months.
Amy is out at service at a nice house in the Pershore Road as nurse girl – Bessie has been out but turned up a bad
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Penny after about 10 days of it but she hadn’t such a nice place as Amy, she will soon go out again when her bad finger is well, the reason they were sent out was, they made the “Mansfield” just above us a rather close acquaintance and could never get anything done, when sent to the Post they would go straight up there and stay till 11 o’clock PM and forget their errands, 5 nights out of 6 this game was carried on for 3 weeks and Pa couldn’t thrash them so the above course was adopted which was in my opinion the wisest possible.
Will write again soon please excuse scribble + clericals I am writing at my office in Union St where I have not much time to myself 5 to 7 am now closing time.
[1 – on the corner]
Just going home to take charge of home all gone to Pantomime by I home.
[4 – in other direction]
With love
Yours affectionately
Ernest A Pauline
The Amazing Paulin(e) Family 