From (Early Life) Original Memory Interview Question

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Well because I lived in Canada I would like to say I did not have to worry about Ghettos but then...you can believe that if you want to. Canada has had its share of 'other side of the track' citizens and my own life was influenced some how by the people that perpetrated the exclusion of others in our little 'cliques' because of their status either financially or ethnically. I was always going against their wishes and associating with those 'undesirables' whenever I could; whether they be from a subsidized housing project commonly known as 'the projects' or just the wrong place in town. Unlike America we had the integration debacle well handled (or so we thought) within our public school system at an early stage of our countries history. So yes! I was influenced by that.

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From (Early Life) Original Memory Interview Question

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We had a select group of friends that got together every day after school to play 'street hockey' or some other games before the dinner hour and either continued after dinner or started a new game of 'Hide n Seek or something other until we were called in for bed. On the weekends we set up tournament Hockey games against kids from the other surrounding streets. We had names picked out for our teams reflecting the streets we lived on 'like Riverdale Rats, Danforth Dragons,Poucher Pirates etc, and the Adults thought we were arranging Gang meetings and had us gather in the public park where we could be supervised by them. I and my best friend Steve would lead the interviews for hockey hopefuls every weekend and his father would arrange the practice road/ice time for us at his work in their parking lot as he was a fireman and the space was always available unless a call for the firetruck came through in which case we had to clear the area for it to depart the station. . . . Read More..

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From (Early Life) Original Memory Interview Question

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Cousins...we had many of them who came up from either New Brunswick or Nova Scotia and some came to live with us part time in the summertime. My Mother said that when she was pregnant with me my Aunt was also pregnant with my cousin who came 12 days after my birth and even today will let everyone know we are cousins and have birthdays the same month.

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From (Early Life) Original Memory Interview Question

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Well I was not all that young but when I was about fifteen or Sixteen I traveled Europe with my Dad who wanted me to see where he was stationed during the war (WWII) and so it was a trip to all those places England, France, Germany, Italy, and some of the Baltic States of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) and especially in Rome and the Island of Sicily.

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I don't know so much that it is a Holiday but we always went to see a Aunt & Uncle who had a Tobacco farm at least once every year and were even asked to help with the work...it was a hard job for a young kid especially working in what was called the Kiln or Drying House for the skids of tobacco leaves to be cured. Other than that there was the usual Holiday celebrations hosted by my Grandmother annually.

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