One pleasant Sunday morning in June my wife Mary – then teaching at Etobicoke, outside of Toronto – and I decided to drive to Oshawa to visit a friend with whom I had worked at the sawmill in Vancouver.
Death in the Family
Reminiscence
Needham St 1907/09
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Tossed out of the Independent Club
In the Independent Club many years ago, the playing of cards in the Band Room was a common occurrence. This took place on most nights but Sunday afternoon and evening was the best time for the game of cards – whether it was rummy, poker or pontoon.
Taking night classes
What could I do indeed? I had little formal education having left school in St Bride’s when I was half-way through grade seven – and no marketable skills.
From Sunnyside to St Bride’s
By late October the wheat fields surrounding our house since our arrival were all shorn and empty. All that remained, a short distance away, seeming forlorn and lonely in the vast sea of grey stubble, was a huge pile of straw.
Cowan Street 1914: more …
One of the more interesting intellectual pursuits one might follow in middle age is tracing one’s family roots. Begin with the living: ……..
1914 Cowan Street
1 T Cronin MD
2 Rev William Moore
3 Joseph Slane
5 Mrs Graham
7 Newry Hotel (T Heaney)
9 Thomas Smith
Shaggy Dog Story
One day when I was not at home and our mother was helping Mrs Jeffrey gather wild strawberries in the cow pasture, Sally and Mary Ann watched closely as a large shaggy dog came trotting leisurely down the road from the South.
Wolves on the prowl
Soon after our arrival in