Bras D'Or

Dennis Jessome
The Boy From Bras D'Or

The Little White Shack

We lived in the White Shack. That's where 8 of us were born. We had two bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room. A Porch and Pantry, that was it. But it seemed bigger at the time. Lots of room.

The bedrooms were approximately 7 x 10ft. The kitchen, well ya had your Icebox, the kitchen table, and a commode with a face and hand pan on it, and they touched from wall to wall. So I'd say approximately 10 x 8ft.

The living room was ABOUT THE SAME SIZE. The chesterfield was 8ft and it cleared the wall by 2 ft., so it was 10ft by the crib, the warm morning, and the doorway approximately 8ft.

The pantry was 4 x 7ft, and the porch was 4 x 7ft, so ya had a total of roughly 356 square feet of living space.

The toilet was 4 x 4, but it was outside, so if ya wanted to add the washroom it would come out to 370 square feet, toilet included.

MY LIVING ROOM IS 20 X 20ft, SO WHEN I COMPARE IT, IT WAS BIGGER THEN OUR SHACK. BUT IT WAS OUR HOME AND WE WERE PROUD OF IT!

I was looking at this picture and just reminiscing. Those were the good old days. What a happy life I had.

When I see this picture everything comes back to me. The people and the Shacks they lived in. It was one big happy family.

Dennis Jessome, "The Proud Shacker".

This is where My Stories came from. There are more to come. All I have to do is hold the Picture in my hand and another story seems to ooze out of it.

It was a wonderful time growing up in THE BRAS D'OR SHACKS.

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