By Land and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     his watch and chain against his, running five miles across 
     
     a small mountain. My father won the watch, and no more 
     
     was heard about his age, as he was well over 50 at that 
     
     time. 
     
    

    
     After a couple of years he returned to the farm but 
     
     my mother died in 1929, just when Depression started. My 
     
     oldest sister came home from the United States for a time, 
     
     but my father kept the family together. He tried hard to 
     
     give us an education, as my mother had been so anxious 
     
     for us to advance in the world. My grandfather died, the 
     
     same year as my mother, and left her some money, which 
     
     helped us some during the depth of Depression. My father 
     
     never tried to keep me on the farm. Although he must have 
     
     worried during World War II when I was in the RCAF, 
     
     he never once tried to stop me from joining up, or my 
     
     youngest sister from getting in the American Navy. 
     
    

    
     I and my sister, Nella, went to Prince of Wales 
     
     College, which was quite a feat from Little Sands, although 
     
     I had gone to Lyndale school for six months and Nella 
     
     in the early grades went to Uigg. My sister Olive went to 
     
     Murray River school. We all had to pay our board. Two 
     
     of my sisters became nurses in the United States, and 
     
     my youngest sister became an accountant and worked in 
     
     Washington until she retired. My oldest sister, Kathryn, 
     
     earlier went to Belle River school, so it was not like today 
     
     when the bus picks children up and takes them to high 
     
     school where one can get an education equal to Prince of 
     
     Wales College, 2nd year, without leaving home. 
     
    

    
     Parents in my day had to try and get their children 
     
     into better schools for a time. My father sent us to Wood 
     
     Islands East school, as they had better teachers, at least 
     
     2nd class. They were not in the habit of hiring 3rd class 
     
     teachers as they did in Little Sands school. I can still thank 
     
     my father for my education as I sit here writing this paper. 
     
    
   
   
    
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