Anne Halderman Research Notes

• sung by Anne’s mother, Luda Augusta (Yeomans)Lee in Ontario as “The Poor Lone Girl in Ontario”
• brought to Manitoba in 1882 when Anne’s mother came west
• Anne sang it as a small child
• later came to teach in Saskatchewan and changed the words to suit the Saskatchewan picture
• all people mentioned in the song actually lived around the Regina beach area
• organist, choir member, supporter of Centre St. United Church
• led a retirees orchestra, the Supertonics, in Weslaco Texas where she wintered until 1999
• Very active in the Co-op movement, founding member of Sahunavon Savings and Credit Union, active in the CCF and the NDP, supported medicare during its introduction in 1962