1915-1916 Diary of Ella Rogers
From 1915 to 1916, sixteen-year-old Ella Rogers wrote her entries in an unlined and loosely bound notebook measuring 19 x 16.5 centimetres. With elaborate detail, she recorded her day-to-day activities as a socially active high school student in Hopewell Hill, New Brunswick. The diary reveals her home-front life including recruitment meetings, her recital of war poems, support for the Belgian Relief fund, knitting socks, and news about the battles in Belgium involving the 26th Battalion (New Brunswick) and the 64th Battalion (Nova Scotia). She names soldier friends enlisting in various battalions.