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jjjjHHkklkjJdelHello well the part I dont like, anyway I was born In Rouyn Que. I weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces, dont remember a darn thing about it, I was tit, fed, for three months so they have told me.And became a man very fast switched over to carnation milk ! I havent got a picture of when i was born thank goodness, to spare you falling off your chair.
At the tender old age of 8 I began driving , an old tractor on a farm we owned in Valgagne, We soon moved back to Iroquois Falls , where Dad worked in the bush for the Abitibe mill. And may I tell you was not long when Dad bought ot changed a beautiful old radio, for a model A"
Ford , then I began my stealing days , I would then take it while he was gone , and go to the dump and pick up , some goodies , to build a camp.in the bush behind Sekulof Bakery , which is now Gagner's store
But true to a good skillful thief, I always marked the tire spot, so I would know where to put it back , might of been only around ten but was pretty good never got stopped for the longest of while, till one afternoon it broke down at that dump, and that was pretty well the end of my caniving ways .

       Here I is on the left at one and a half year old, why we dont stay that way , ill never know, and to continue I left home at 13 years old , and hitchiked to Hamilton , and lied about my age, and did odds and ends , until I worked as a job for continue Flow corp. as a tinsmith.
      Then 3.1/2 years later had the sorrowful news that my brother Donald was killed , and returned home,
      And bought my first Automobile, for 35 $ a lot of money then, we picked bottles and blueberries to be able to pay the gas, which was 29 cents
a gallon, it lasted all of three months and the motor gave up

     Then ad bought a brand new 52 Ford, and at that time we were building the new home, one half at the time, I was 11 years old then , and did we work, straighting nails
sawing with a handsaw that the way it was done then, no power tools, and although no education he had , he did a good job , he was very skillful and one heck of a worker,
         My fun then was to take a bushel , and a rope and glide my siblings down from the second floor to the ground , wow were they scared , never trusted me darn.
       Then In my time off I would build little wooden carts , with cans in front as headlights and put one of the kids in it. and smash it against a post to see how much it would take, not too say I was probably the first one to start on , vehicle crashing test:
   Which they did later, but with dummies, not my sibblings they were scared but they were no dummies