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Journaling: My great-grandmother Mabel Shaw Cubitt was a true Victorian woman. Born in the 55th year of Queen Victoria's reign, her upbringing was strict and she believed children should be seen and not heard. She raised her own children in the same strict manner. In the photo she is on the right, with my grandmother Phyllis Nora to her right and her youngest sister, also named Phyllis, on the left. The other children are Gladys Mamie and WIlliam Edmund John. Before emigrating to Canada in 1911 with her father, Mabel first worked in the Nottingham lace market and later managed sales and exports for Bots Cash Chemists in Notts. She married her father's friend William Jabez Cubitt a little less than a year after arriving in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Her mother Annie and sister Phyllis came to Canada twice, in mid-1913 and again in 1918, but were unable to make Canada teir final home. Her mother made one more unsuccessful attempt before returning to England for the last time in late 1920. Mabel never forgot her working-class background but strove to make a better life for her family. She filled their home with fine furniture and fittings, and even into later life she created beautiful things with her hands.
