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Family V
06 Apr 2020Otterburn Curling Club Tankard My dad was an interesting character who had a great gift of play. My uncle told me that dad was the undisciplined one in the family and was always getting into mischief as a kid. One of my favourite stories about dad was when he’d take…
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Family IV
05 Apr 2020Blamey Memorabilia That young handsome man on the left in his riding britches is Captain Blamey, my grandfather-Lord Strathcona’s Horse Regiment. He’s greeting the King of England with a few of his older brothers proudly looking on in the background. Grandad Arnold Blamey unlike my dad’s grandfather was born into…
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Family III
04 Apr 2020Glass Plate Negatives late 1800s and early 1900s Politics runs in the family as does the arts. In politics you won’t ever see this happen again in Canadian history whereby the leader of the winning party turns down the premiership of the province based on ethics within the party. Then…