79 14 15 16 17 18 The GreatWar Isobel Rogers (1900-1963) (Figure 9), kept diaries through her wartime teenage years (Figure 10), documenting her circumstances maturing into adulthood in the rural community of Hopewell Hill, Albert County, New Brunswick. Rogers was active with the Red Cross and other organizations that supported the war effort and often recorded her attendance at fundraisers and recruitment events. A survivor of the Spanish flu pandemic, she details its devastating effects in her diary, as on October 4, 1918, when she notes: “The school closed Wed. to prevent influenza from spreading if it should hit in the place. There are about 25 cases in Hillsboro. One Figure 10: Ella Rogers, Diary Covers, 1908-1921; L-R Top: Cover, Diary of Ella Rogers, Volume 1: 1908-1915, Digital Frame 1; Cover, Diary of Ella Rogers, Volume 2: 1915-1916, Digital Frame 1; Middle: Cover, Diary of Ella Rogers, Volume 3: 1916, Digital Frame 1; L-R Bottom: Cover, Diary of Ella Rogers, Volume 4: 1916-1918, Digital Frame 1; Cover, Diary of Ella Rogers, Volume 5: 1918-1921, Digital Frame 1, The Operation Canada Digital War Diaries Project, MLC Research Centre, Toronto. Courtesy Mount Allison University Archives, Sackville, New Brunswick.
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