Memories of Robert Mullen & Mary Scobie

Photo: Robert Mullen and Mary Scobie circa 1915

As told by Herb's cousin Harold S. Mullens

The earliest memory I have of my grandfather and grandmother would be about 1923 or 1924 when I was about 3 or 4 years old.

My grandfather (Robert Mullen) was always revered with a good of respect by all who kew him, and was known as an honest, God-fearing man. He was alos known as a very hard working man, being a very physically strong man, of which he was very proud.

My grandfather would entertain us with stories of his days in the logging camps where he spent a great deal of his time in his early days, being employed as a cook. The main diet at taht time was, pork, baked beans, bread and raisin pie. The men slept in what was known as a "camboose" which was a log building with an opening in the roof for the smoke to escape. The men slept around an open fire in the centre of the room.

In those daysthis part of the country was covered with white pine. It was cut down in the lumber camps, "squared" with broad-axes, formed into cribs" then into great rafts and floated to Quebec City where it was loaded onto ships and shipped to many parts of the world. My Grandfather made at least one trip to Quebec City on those rafts of lumber.