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Sunday, October 30, 2011
At McGill's Redpath Museum, a cold early June morning
It was a cold morning in early June when I visited McGill University's Redpath Museum, located on the McGill campus. I remember visiting the Redpath Museum when I was a student at McGill, many years ago. Perhaps the museum was closed for several years, and I was living outside of Montreal for many years, so it wasn't until June 2011 that I finally returned to the Redpath. It's a marvelous place! Meanwhile, on the campus, only a few hundred feet away, I had watched as William Shatner received an honourary Ph.D.; Shatner attended the same high school I went to; in Shatner's time it was called West Hill High School but by the time I got there it was Monklands High School. I have only happy memories of Monklands, especially after the miserable years I had put in at Willingdon School and especially Rosedale School. Shatner grew up in our old neighbourhood, Notre Dame de Grace. Here's an interesting link for more information on the Redpath Museum: http://redpathmuseumclub.wordpress.com/ More coming on that morning at the Redpath Museum! |
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Family Album: Parker, Chew, Richards (six)
Here is my uncle with his son, John Parker, and daughter, Jo-Anne Parker, on either side of him. |
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Family Album: Parker, Chew, Richards (five)
My grandfather's car, his wife Bertha Parker in the front seat; Uncle John in the back seat. |
It's the early 1930s, my uncle John Parker with his sister, my mother, Hilda Parker |
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Family Album - Parker, Chew, Richards (four)
Hilda Parker on a snowy day near the Mother House (corner Atwater Street and Sherbrooke Street West) where she was a secretarial student. |
We're in the Laurentians, just north of Montreal, and that's my uncle John Parker eating an apple, then Iris Price, my grandmother Bertha Parker (ne Chew), and my mother Hilda Parker Morrissey. |
This is my uncle John Parker, and his sister (my mother) Hilda Parker, at a cemetery perhaps visiting Bill. This must be in the early 1920s. Montreal. |
At the same cemetery as above, Bertha (Chew Parker), her husband (my grandfather) John Parker, children John and Hilda. |
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Family Album - Parker, Chew, Richards (three)
.Here is my mother, Hilda Parker (Morrissey), at her First Communion at St. Jude Anglican Church in Montreal; the dress was borrowed from a Roman Catholic friend's family. |
Here is my mother, Hilda Parker, with family friend Iris Price at Plage Laval. Iris was the daughter of a friend of my mother's mother. |
Here is my uncle, John Leslie Parker, my mother's younger brother, in front of or near a flour mill in Woodstock, Ontario, where other relatives from England had settled after moving to Canada. |
Monday, October 17, 2011
Family Album - Parker, Chew, Richards (two)
My uncle John Parker, in the Royal Canadian Air Force, during World War II; he was stationed in Prince Edward Island. |
My uncle John Parker (on left) in front of a pharmacy on St. Antoine Street in Montreal. The friend on the right is the son of the "chemist." |
Photograph of Bertha Chew Parker. Not sure who the woman is on the right. |
Friday, October 14, 2011
Family Album - Parker, Chew, Richards (one)
Bertha Chew, mother of young Bill, her son, in the backyard of her mother-in-law, Bessie Richards Parker.. |
.Bessie Richards, grandmother of young Bill. Bessie had four or five sisters, one was Bella who lived in St. Thomas, Ontario |
Young Bill, my mother's older brother who died when still a child. |
Young Bill. We always heard that Bill had a childhood illness and that my grandparents called for their family doctor, but the doctor never arrived, he was drunk. |
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