Twins Mary and Elizabeth Doiron, Pomquet, 1940s. Courtesy of Pomquet Héritage.
Email to Amberlee Boulton from Daniel Benoit, July 5, 2014. The girls are my grand uncle’s twins Mary & Elizabeth Doiron, my grand uncle was Charles John Doiron married to Emma Jane Deyoung we don’t know the twins birthdate but the picture looks to have been taken in the 1940’s, we don’t know who the boy is.
Email from Daniel Benoit to Amberlee Boulton, July 5, 2014:
The dog sled, the girls are my grand uncle’s twins Mary & Elizabeth Doiron, my grand uncle was Charles John Doiron married to Emma Jane DeYoung we don’t know the twins’ birthdate but the picture looks to have been taken in the 1940’s, we don’t know who the boy is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/polish-mother-photographs-kids-in-countryside_n_5692263.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000023&ir=Good+News
Compare Polish photographer Isabel Urbaniak’s b/w photographs of her children to this photo 50+ years earlier in Pomquet. We know intuitively that children at play with their pets is a healthy practice — anywhere and at any moment in history.
Mary is my mother. The twins were born 5.22.1931