By Land and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     180 minutes. I drove a Meteor and would usually go from 
     
     the top of one hill to top of the next at 100 miles per hour. 
     
    

    
     Occasionally, I took the family with me, and got a 
     
     cabin in which to stay; in the evenings, we tried to see the 
     
     country. 
     
    

    
     One time in the spring after the removal of my 
     
     snow tires, I had to dig them out of the trunk of my car 
     
     and put them on to climb Kelly’s Mountain. Shortly after 
     
     getting over the mountain, I heard some thumps and called 
     
     into a garage. One of the tires was flat, and when they put 
     
     air into it, the tube started to bulge through the tire. When 
     
     I came home, I took it to Canadian Tire, and although they 
     
     couldn’t replace it, they would send it away. 
     
    

    
     The next winter when I went to put on the snow 
     
     tires, I only had one. I remembered then where the other 
     
     one was, and I went back to Canadian Tire. To my surprise, 
     
     they gave me a new tire for $1.84. 
     
    

    
     I was on one trip to Saskatoon, and the instructor 
     
     was giving a talk on senior management. One of his 
     
     lessons was on the sway syndrome of older people. Later 
     
     on, we got the same talk by some other man in St. John’s, 
     
     Newfoundland. 
     
    

    
     I should mention that all the clerks who I worked 
     
     with in the Treatment centre were of a very high caliber. 
     
    

    
     While I worked at DVA, I did not twiddle my 
     
     thumbs in the evenings. When the Psychiatrist who 
     
     examined our veterans left, there was some trouble getting 
     
     a replacement, so I agreed with Dr. Bob Forsythe, who 
     
     had been in my class at Dalhousie, that if he examined the 
     
     veterans to aid me in my assessments for pensions, then I 
     
     would examine all the patients at Riverside for a medical. 
     
    

    
     As I had never worked with mental patients before, 
     
     I told the hospital that I would like to start with the saner 
     
     easier patients first. It was several years later 
     
    
   
   
    
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