Tolway, Susan

2 photocopied maps and 1 handrawn map of Russia and Lithuania with handwritten notes in red pen outlining the Lithuania boarder and the location of Sczidiki/Zidikai and Memel.

Handwritten letter from Margaret (Peg) to her niece Susan Tolway. Letter is on lined paper with hand drawn blue flowers in the margins.

Typed reminiscence of the life of Elizabeth Moorhouse, neé Errington, neé Hood by her daughter Susan Tolway. The letter was annotaed in 1999 with handwritten notes. Elizabeth married William Errington and had three children. Linda Carroll (nee Irish, Nee Errington),Susan Tolway (nee Errington) and William Errington. She later married Fredrick Moorhouse. The collection also contains a photo of her.

A typed letter from Vivienne Simon replying to a letter Susan Tolway had placed in the Recorder. The letter is typed both sides of a single sheet of blue paper.

A handwritten letter from Lily Balarsky to Susan Tolway. The letter discusses family ties and contains a family tree diagram. The letter is written on blue British postal airmail stationary.

A handwritten letter from Ralph Mary and Ann Marie Balarsky to Susan Tolway. The letter was sent with newspaper clippings of Sam Woolf and photos of Ralph's mother, Sarah Balarsky (nee Woolf) which are also contained in this collection.

A handwritten letter from Jack Balkind replying to a letter from Sydney Balarsky. The letter discusses Jack's imediate family tree and history including where they lived, moving to Glasgow in 1914, and the fact that Jack's mother, Rosa Balkind (nee Cohen), died in Glasgow.

A typed biography of Rose McColl (Nee Woolf) by an unknown author. Rosa was born around 1904 in Glasgow, Scotland. She married John McCool and had one child, Ian McColl. She died March 4, 1958 at the age of 54 in Vancouver, BC. The collection also contains a photo of her.

A 1st Battalion Machine Gun Corps soldier’s pass from September 22, 1919 granted the recipient (“Pvt. S. Wolfe [sic]) leave from their quarters to travel to Buttevant, a small village in Ireland that housed a military barracks. The date coincides with the early stages of the Irish War for Independence. Louis Ockrim, one of Sam Woolf's business colleagues, said that Sam "never got his medal" for his prior heroism in World War I because he supposedly deserted the British Army and joined Irish forces at some point during the Irish War for Independence.

Sol Woolf (who went by “Steve Wilson” in his adulthood) appearing as a “Master Tailor” in a newspaper ad for a tailoring firm called Trotter’s. Sol’s father, Abraham, had also worked in the tailoring business.

Another newspaper chronicle (credited to the “People’s Journal”) that profiles Sam Woolf’s wartime heroism. This article notes that Sam Wolff was 21 when he killed three Germans and captured thirty in battle. It also quotes his mother, Elizabeth, at some length.

This remembrance of Gertrude Hood has no author attached. (It may be Susan Tolway piecing together some patchwork stories about her grandmother, since her mother, Elizabeth, is referred to in the third person here.) Many of the memories here suggest Gertrude had a rather difficult life.

Photo of Ian McColl as a boy in plaid overalls and a white longsleeved shirt. Ian is holding a ball in his hands. Ian grew up to be a police officer in Vancouver. He had one child, Shelly. The collection also contains a photo of him as a baby.

A black and white family photo of Elizabeth Moorhouse (Hood), Margaret Moffatt (Hood), Gertrude Hood (Woolf), and James Hood.

Black and white photo of an elementary school class. Elizabeth Moorhouse is in the third row with the ribbon in her hair.

Undated, sepia photo of Elizabeth Moorhouse as a young woman.

Black and white photo of (from left to right) Edna Greene, Min Greene (nee Balkind), and Rosa Cohen Balkind are standing with interlocked arms. Edna is holding her daughter Andrea Mair (nee Greene) as a baby in her right arm. The Balkind's changed their name from Balcon at some point in the early 20th century.

Sepia photo of Elizabeth (Betsy) Woolf (née Balcon) printed on a postcard. She is wearing a black dress and leaning on a chest height table/pillar. The photo was probably taken in Glasgow as her family lived their c. 1900-1920 with the Balarskys and Balcons.