Once inside her century-old farmhouse, Phyllis Buchanan steps into the bright yellow kitchen where she used to bake two dozen loaves of bread a week to feed her 11 children. Looking around the bare room now, she shakes her head and combs several fingers through wavy, snow-white hair.
"How many dances have we had on that floor? How many parties?" she says, shoving her veiny hands into the pockets of a loose-fitting grey cardigan, a gift from her daughter last Christmas.
"A lot of memories here."
This is where she raised and gave birth to seven daughters and four sons.
The large enamel wood stove that cooked their meals and kept the family warm during the harsh New Brunswick winters is long gone and, at 99, Buchanan hasn't baked bread in years.
Soon, she says, the house will be gone too.
Buchanan knows the wood-framed homestead, painted forest green in recent years, will be torn down by the provincial government as part of its plan to turn a portion of flood-prone Bonny River,Our company focus on manufacturing Plastic mould , Second Falls and St. George into uninhabited land along the Magaguadavic River in southwestern New Brunswick.
The home at 1215 Route 770 has been in the family for nearly 70 years.
Over the decades, it has weathered many storms and withstood regular flooding from the Magaguadavic, which flows about a dozen metres in front of the house.
"I went through a good many floods and I never had to move away," Buchanan says. "We cleaned everything up. I've shoveled the ice up off my kitchen floor. My bath tub would be full of sand."
The flood of 1970 - local people call it the ice flood - saw huge chunks of ice come up to the house in February.Accept credit cards with a third party merchant account, Water came into the house and rose to the sinks. The family had to evacuate for three days.
"We never thought of leaving," says Buchanan.
But her homestead's long-held resistance to flooding was washed away last Dec. 13, when heavy rainfall caused one of the most expensive natural disasters in New Brunswick history.
The storm caused an estimated $35 million in damages to homes, businesses and infrastructure such as roads and bridges in southwestern and central New Brunswick.
In an effort to limit future impacts, the government has since bought out 22 properties, 12 of which are located in Charlotte County, to urge residents to move to land farther away from the flood-prone areas.
The old Buchanan homestead, the nearby homes of her daughter, Charlotte Norman, and grandson, Glenn Norman, were all severely damaged by the flood. As a result of the damage the storm left in its wake, three households in this large,This page contains information about molds, extended family have moved away from the river, a place they loved.
The flood uprooted this close-knit family, whose members have lived alongside the Magaguadavic River in the Second Falls and Bonny River area for generations.
On this grey afternoon in June, this is the final time Buchanan, who had in recent years been living on Lake Utopia with her daughter Chrystal Shaw, will see the family homestead before it's stripped to the ground.
Inside, the house is gutted down to the old pine board floors and there's a faint smell of mould.
White-painted kitchen cupboards have been removed and are lying on their side on the floor in the yellow kitchen.
The walls are bare, except for a red and gold shiny "Merry Christmas" banner hanging in the porch, an eerie reminder of when the flood occurred last year.
The property, which sits on less than a half acre, will soon be converted to Crown land.
Phyllis Buchanan had just given birth at home in Second Falls to her 10th child, a healthy baby boy, in December 1951 when the Magaguadavic River flooded its banks and was pushing up against her front step.
Inside her first-floor bedroom, she was lying in bed, breastfeeding her day-old son, Duane, when the waters came rushing.
"They wanted me to leave the house, but I wouldn't," she recalls.Bathroom Floor tiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles. "If you stepped off the front step, you had to step into a boat."
It wasn't the first time the river had come up to her front door so Buchanan stayed with her baby until the waters receded a couple of days later.
Buchanan is the oldest of five generations who live in the rural area surrounding Second Falls and Bonny River areas.Online fine art gallery of quality original landscape oil paintings,
Her father, Daniel Kinney, came to the area from a few kilometres north of Second Falls to work in the woods to supply the sawmills that operated around St. George in the late 1800s.
"How many dances have we had on that floor? How many parties?" she says, shoving her veiny hands into the pockets of a loose-fitting grey cardigan, a gift from her daughter last Christmas.
"A lot of memories here."
This is where she raised and gave birth to seven daughters and four sons.
The large enamel wood stove that cooked their meals and kept the family warm during the harsh New Brunswick winters is long gone and, at 99, Buchanan hasn't baked bread in years.
Soon, she says, the house will be gone too.
Buchanan knows the wood-framed homestead, painted forest green in recent years, will be torn down by the provincial government as part of its plan to turn a portion of flood-prone Bonny River,Our company focus on manufacturing Plastic mould , Second Falls and St. George into uninhabited land along the Magaguadavic River in southwestern New Brunswick.
The home at 1215 Route 770 has been in the family for nearly 70 years.
Over the decades, it has weathered many storms and withstood regular flooding from the Magaguadavic, which flows about a dozen metres in front of the house.
"I went through a good many floods and I never had to move away," Buchanan says. "We cleaned everything up. I've shoveled the ice up off my kitchen floor. My bath tub would be full of sand."
The flood of 1970 - local people call it the ice flood - saw huge chunks of ice come up to the house in February.Accept credit cards with a third party merchant account, Water came into the house and rose to the sinks. The family had to evacuate for three days.
"We never thought of leaving," says Buchanan.
But her homestead's long-held resistance to flooding was washed away last Dec. 13, when heavy rainfall caused one of the most expensive natural disasters in New Brunswick history.
The storm caused an estimated $35 million in damages to homes, businesses and infrastructure such as roads and bridges in southwestern and central New Brunswick.
In an effort to limit future impacts, the government has since bought out 22 properties, 12 of which are located in Charlotte County, to urge residents to move to land farther away from the flood-prone areas.
The old Buchanan homestead, the nearby homes of her daughter, Charlotte Norman, and grandson, Glenn Norman, were all severely damaged by the flood. As a result of the damage the storm left in its wake, three households in this large,This page contains information about molds, extended family have moved away from the river, a place they loved.
The flood uprooted this close-knit family, whose members have lived alongside the Magaguadavic River in the Second Falls and Bonny River area for generations.
On this grey afternoon in June, this is the final time Buchanan, who had in recent years been living on Lake Utopia with her daughter Chrystal Shaw, will see the family homestead before it's stripped to the ground.
Inside, the house is gutted down to the old pine board floors and there's a faint smell of mould.
White-painted kitchen cupboards have been removed and are lying on their side on the floor in the yellow kitchen.
The walls are bare, except for a red and gold shiny "Merry Christmas" banner hanging in the porch, an eerie reminder of when the flood occurred last year.
The property, which sits on less than a half acre, will soon be converted to Crown land.
Phyllis Buchanan had just given birth at home in Second Falls to her 10th child, a healthy baby boy, in December 1951 when the Magaguadavic River flooded its banks and was pushing up against her front step.
Inside her first-floor bedroom, she was lying in bed, breastfeeding her day-old son, Duane, when the waters came rushing.
"They wanted me to leave the house, but I wouldn't," she recalls.Bathroom Floor tiles at Great Prices from Topps Tiles. "If you stepped off the front step, you had to step into a boat."
It wasn't the first time the river had come up to her front door so Buchanan stayed with her baby until the waters receded a couple of days later.
Buchanan is the oldest of five generations who live in the rural area surrounding Second Falls and Bonny River areas.Online fine art gallery of quality original landscape oil paintings,
Her father, Daniel Kinney, came to the area from a few kilometres north of Second Falls to work in the woods to supply the sawmills that operated around St. George in the late 1800s.
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