aRymonde/Iick And is Music Group 2

Raymond Sellick

Raymond was born in Brackley in I915, the son of Edward and Maude Sellick of Fredericton. Edward moved to Brackley in I914, and served as secretary of the School Trustee Board for several years. Raymond attended local school and later became a farmer, farming for nearly 50 years. He sold the old homestead to Stanley Murray. He purchased 25 acres nearer the Brackley Point Road and operated a dairy farming business until his retirement in I976. Raymond is a member of the United Church AOTS clubs, club, and the church choir and is very active in the Community of Brackley.

In the mid-thirties Raymond began his singing career in earnest. At that time he came within an ace of winning a talent contest over CFCY with his rendition of Wild Carter’s ”My Swiss Moonlight Lullaby”. He followed up with short radio programs with the late Oliver Ross of Georgetown and was then called by George Chappell to be the main vocalist on ”The Merry- Makers” a half-hour program of old time music and song. However the demanding life of a dairy farmer did not permit much time for singing. Accordingly Raymond limited his singing to occasional appearances at men’s clubs, church choirs and concerts. At the Winsloe Men’s Club he was fortunate to find a very promising young accordionist, Wayne Diamond, and the two played and sang with the Winsloe Men’s Choir before audiences in various parts of P.E.I. In 1977 Raymond together with his sister, Fannie Bertram, his niece, Ena Bertram, Wayne Diamond and Melvin Hyde, cut an album. He named it ”My Island Home”. Raymond married Hilda Mae (Murray) in I940. They had 2 children: Faye and Roger. Faye married Douglas MacLeod, a member of the RCMP. They have 2 children:

Gary II, and Greg 9.

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