Keep in mind that when my grandfather, Clem Dickson, wrote this diary 100 years ago, he was working on the construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad in northwest Canada, a bitterly cold and primal wilderness . He worked with the team that was responsible for construction westward from Winnipeg, Manitoba toward the team that began in Prince Rupert, British Columbia and worked eastward toward Winnipeg a total distance of about 1,500 miles.
[NOTE: I make no attempt to interpret what he wrote. What I'll be posting every day this year is a simple transcription of each page of the diary as he wrote it.]
Here's the entry:
Stayed in the 7 spot all day and kept on the fire all day. Weather was about 24 below and a cold wind blowing the same as day before and snow blowing. Wrote two letters in the afternoon one to J/A/ R. Bob Dickson Nan(?)
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