Heather Treggett Memories: Family Life

Visual Description:

Heather Treggett is sitting in her living room. Various images are shown as she speaks: Brian and baby Heather in a carriage, Heather and her brothers Ian, Don and Brian, Little Heather in the backyard of the house, Heather and Ian dressed for a party, Harold and Pearl taking a photo with baby Brian, and Harold and Pearl at their 25th wedding anniversary. 

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Introduction:

Heather’s Memories: Family Life 

The Third Generation: Harold and Pearl

Heather Starts:

Well, my name is Heather Treggett, and I live in the cemetery, Mount Hermon.

Up until I was in my 20s, and I had three older brothers, Don, Ian and Brian, and it was a different life living in the cemetery. When I was a baby, my mother used to say she didn’t have to go anywhere else to push me in the carriage.

It was great, my mother used to say: “What a lovely, long they walk I have with you down the cemetery headed you with your carriage and looking over at the river it’s beautiful.”

My time in the cemetery and like my three older brothers needless to say they were all older than I was, so my eldest brother, I didn’t know too much because he was gone and not Ian, but Brian and I.

We spent a lot of time in the cemetery together, and we had you know I have good ties with my friends but living in the cemetery.

Good times for my friends but living in the cemetery was fun, and when we did live there with those days, there were no monuments close to the house.

So we had a lovely home, the home a big house and it was nice anytime I’d have my friends like fun.

I was like around twelve thirteen years of age my going to be my birthday. My friends, we would you know, be in the backyard having the music going playing records, and we’d be my girlfriends I’d be dancing together, and we had good times.

With my brothers, I always had good souvenirs from the cemetery too.

It was you know as I said with memories and I had a very dear father my father was the sweetest man and

my mother was too and actually after my beloved mother passed away on their tombstone I wrote:

“Our father was a kind man, and our mother was a true pearl.”

My mother’s name was Pearl, and I think that means it all about our parents. They were fortunate to have two good loving parents to the three of us, I mean the four of us in the fourth, my three brothers added me, and it was quite memorable for sure.

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Credits:

Subject –Heather Treggett

Interviewer – Brian Treggett

Editor – Ariel Blouin

Producer – La Société d’Histoire de Sillery