Childhood in Canada: The 60's

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Our first house in Fort William on McGregor, 1963/4.


My Dad at the end of the driveway at 400 Westbury Cr.

Photo was developed Feb. 1966.

Photo was developed August 1966.

My Dad's workplace: The NW Regional Library System, 910 Victoria Ave.
I worked there several part summers
(and the whole summer of 77 as the janitor).

Peppy, our first cat.
My Mum says this is Dusty, our 2nd.

Winter in 1964 at 400 Westbury.
The Volkswagen
(which I always pronounced the German way and still do)
was our first car.
The Valiant was our second.

The following pix can't be from before 1965
because of Churchill High in the background.
So it may be that the photo above is from the same winter.




The empty lot on the corner had a rink one winter.
When I was c. 10 I learned to skate there, taught by a mysterious older girl
who held my hand. I wonder who she was.







My Mum used to have a cooking segment on local TV.

Swimming at Chippewa Park, 1964

Chippewa Park, 1964

Kakabeka Falls, 1964

The Sasquatch Hitchhiker on the way to Dryden

Swimming at the Thunderbird Motel in Dryden.
It burned down years ago.
I think Dad took us along when he went there for business.

Photo was developed June 1966.
That's Pinkyo beside me.

Photo was developed June 1966.

1969?
Geri and her friend Sandra McColl from across the street.


The same day?

1966/7?

1966/7? Chippewa Park
I was never any good at baseball.

1966?

Akela

9 or 10 years old at Grey Wolf camp. I got homesick and cried there at night, because the leaders told us that Red River Cereal (which was served cold) was from the bottom of the Red River and they told ghost stories at night. I was sure I so the shadow of the hunchback outside the tent. I wonder if it was a prank. ha Now I like both RR Cereal AND ghost stories (but not pranks). I remember being told that the guy in front of me was the shortest Wolf Cub in the world. Based on what the leaders told us about RR Cereal and ghosts, I'm inclined to be suspicious.

More pix from Grey Wolf Camp






Cub Leaders in drag

Apple Day.
I remember hating Apple Day.
I'm not cut out for door-to-door sales.

My Apple Day basket. Yay.

Dweeb. Dweeb. Dweeb.

The first Christmas tree I remember, made of silver aluminum. Mid 60's.