August Long Weekend Part Two, Morningside, Cannington and Sunderland.

 My day trip around Brock Township included a visit with my cousins at their cottage which has been in the Smith/Stewart clan for almost a century. I found out a few things about my great granddad William G.  Smith and my granddad Arthur Smith. I know great granddad William G. moved to Toronto prior to the First World War but I got the Toronto address wrong. They didn't live on the edge of what's Corso Italia but instead in Hillcrest just east of Oakville Collegiate a block south of St. Clair West. I think Great Granddad Smith rented as he spent the final year of his life in the early 1930s in Moore Park a couple blocks south of St. Clair Avenue East and east of Yellow Ravine. 

The other thing I found out was Granddad Arthur signed up for the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in his mid 20s in 1915 as a Private. He came home three years later as a Sargent on a medical discharge with an injured left hand. Granddad Arthur, I think moved to Montreal in the later 1920s to work in newly formed Canadian National's marketing department. 


Camera: Nikon F2SB, Nikkor Pre Ai lenses. 

Film: Eastmand Double X, D76 1+1. 



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