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Mrs. Eleanor MacPherson came to Enderby with her husband and two teenaged children. Mrs. MacPherson was an Ontario Scottish Presbyterian. Mrs. MacPherson was also a Sunday School Superintendent for twenty-five years. Her husband, Albert MacPherson, ran a furniture store and was also an undertaker and photographer. Mrs. MacPherson loved flowers and had a very green thumb! She rented vacant lots all over town and grew many flowers, not for money but for the Presbyterian Church.

Three times a week, summer and winter, until she was in her seventies she drove her team of wild cayuses on a 28 - mile mail route, on a route that very few men would have tackled, especially in -40 degrees Celsius weather. Often in winter she would drag home with runners.

Mrs. MacPherson had lots of runaways. One cold day a farmer found her sitting in the snow with her box of mail.

Around Christmas the sleigh was full of mail; when she reached home from the last run before Christmas her sleigh was almost full with gifts from the farmers.

Heidi Sagh, Jason Stanley, Nicole Francis
ALF School 1989