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Penny-Lynn Galbraith: The first things I need to find out are your biographical backgrounds. So, who were your parents, Mrs. Boone?
Elsie Boone: My parents were James and Isabel King.
PG: And where where they from?
EB: They were from uh, England. We came to Canada in 1913. Well, my dad came in '12 and we came in 1913, my mother and sister and I.
PG: Why would your dad have come out?
EB: Well, he was a businessman in England.. and perhaps.. the first thing was, my brother came out.. to Canada as a young man, my brother.. Billy King, Kaleden, came out as a young man, and he promised to come home in three years time; it was quite a wrench for my mother to lose her only son, to Canada. But before the three years were up, he wrote to his dad, and he said "Dad, I'll never come back to England again. So you'd better saddle-up your business in England and come out here." And that was what brought us out.. was.. Billy coming out first an' deciding he didn't want to go back to England to settle again. So, we came out in 1913, and uh, then I was married and came to Oliver in 1922.
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