Peter Turner
My Uncle Lloyd, a retired senator, is a die-hard Canadian Football League (CFL) fan. He attended his first Grey Cup in November 1962, while in his last year at Bishop’s University, and has attended many since. Now, every year, cousin Billy and I, with our wives, are summoned to his cluttered study to watch the…
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Sherman was born on the 220-acre Pinnacle Mountain Farm that lies on the south side of the Mountain, a kilometer or two above border. Those knows the road, will remember the classic old farmhouse with the generous roofed verandah, hunkered down next to a Canadian flagpole. Across the road, on the mountain side, sits a…
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Shortly after my wife and I boarded the Canadian in Toronto for its four-night journey to Vancouver, a steward introduced us to our bedroom—an L-shaped sofa and coffee table that give way to a double bed (fine for me, but a bit small for my wife), a well-appointed bathroom with full shower, and an oversized…
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“I’m sorry Charlie, I shall not make a Christmas pudding for the Dallaires. They’re very nice, but they won’t like it. The French simply don’t understand English food, you know.” Agnes Rogers, Charlie’s 9 – year-old grandmother, was a war bride from Northern Ireland and had shed nothing of that flinty accent. She was looking…
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Aunt Lilias had few happy days during her 58-year marriage to Delbert Wright. She’d often told Charlie, her favourite nephew, “In the back seat, on the way to the church, Daddy leaned over and whispered, ‘It’s not too late to turn this car around.’ Oh I know it will hurt for a time, but it…
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At 87, the long retired Senator Lloyd Rogers, was becoming increasingly unreasonable. Among his friends there were whispers of “oldtimers”. When Aunt Margie had her stroke it was agreed that she and Lloyd would move into the Jardins Fleuries Retirement home on May 1st. On that very day, however, Lloyd changed his mind. He would…
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Lloyd Rogers sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Derby/Abenaki from 1980 to 1984. During that time he did his best to promote the Townships and, in particular Derby County. In the spring of 1980 a European trade mission was touring Quebec. Lloyd and his wife Margie were chosen to introduce…
Lire la suite...Gord was a wise and elegant old Golden Retriever. He was happy to go ungroomed, like a retired diplomat who’d become nonchalant about his appearance. He remained devastatingly handsome however, in spite of the dense snarls in his coat. For his tenth birthday, Charlie, Elspeth and the three children hid behind the living room furniture,…
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