Donnybrook - My memories of growing up there.

Where I grew up

When my parents moved into their first home in the valley called Donnybrook near Ireland Road (College Grant) in Ohio, Antigonish county, Nova Scotia, they used oil lamps for light, an outhouse and carried their water from a brook on the property.

My dad, Donald Keir Steeves had taken his army savings and helped his step-father, Claude John Steeves set up a sawmill near Din's bridge, a metal arched structure across a gorge and dam below, near Ireland Road.

Dad was able to acquire an old army truck which was selling cheaply and could be used to haul logs and lumber to buyers in Pictou county.

Mom came to Donnybrook as a young graduate from Normal College in Truro, Nova Scotia. She took a teaching job at the one-room schoolhouse at the bottom of the Marsh Hill along the Ohio West road.