Dutchman
03-10-2016, 12:47 AM
My grandfather was born 1896 in Toronto, Canada. He was a very proper British subject in every way. He was a liberal socialist democrat and a New Deal democrat. He had 3 daughters with my mother the middle child born in 1926 in Ithaca, New York. Her older sister was born in Virden, Manitoba. In 1916 he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force along with his older brother. In 1922 they left the farm in Virden and immigrated across the bridge at Niagara Falls and settled in Tompkins County, New York by Slatterville Springs.
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They were sharecroppers throughout the Great Depression with my grandfather taking work at the Ithaca farmer's coop when opportunity presented itself. But by 1944 things were very difficult for everybody in this country and most others. He loaded the three girls in the back of the 1936 Oldsmobile, tied the mattress on the roof and hit the road for the California shipyards building Liberty ships, his role as a carpenter.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/03/03145.htm
I donated a copy of this launch program so you'll see it at the bottom of the page.
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They were sharecroppers throughout the Great Depression with my grandfather taking work at the Ithaca farmer's coop when opportunity presented itself. But by 1944 things were very difficult for everybody in this country and most others. He loaded the three girls in the back of the 1936 Oldsmobile, tied the mattress on the roof and hit the road for the California shipyards building Liberty ships, his role as a carpenter.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/03/03145.htm
I donated a copy of this launch program so you'll see it at the bottom of the page.
http://media.fotki.com/1_p,rtbktdwdbqwrswxwfqbfsgtwfb,vi/rqqtwrkwgxtsqsrkfs/2/28344/2133622/SSColbert1-vi.jpg
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