April 19/17
Dear Mother,
Received your letter of the March 18th. last night and am glad to know you and John are well I am alright myself only its awfull cold out here and we have awfull snow storms I thought that the old country only had snow about three times a year but we had as much as I ever seen in Canada.
Well I have no real news for you so will have to close as I have no time to write a long letter
So goodbye for now will write a longer letter next time
Owen