Chasing the Comet: A Scottish-Canadian Life

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239 Prologue 1 Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, Comet (Toronto: Ramdom House, 1985), pp. 122-23. David mentioned you could see his comet in daylight, so it probably wasn’t Halley’s; as Sagan and Druyan have noted: “About once in a human lifetime, on average, a comet appears that can be seen in the daytime sky, even very close to the sun. The Great Comet of 1910, which in people’s memories is sometimes confused with Halley’s Comet which arrived later that year, was such, and was called the Great Daylight Comet.” If this were a fictional work, a writer could play on the ironic possibilities of this misidentification. However, since David’s interpretation of reality forms the basis for his decision making, this symbol retains the meaning he gave it. David’s reaction to this event is much more telling than any astronomical facts. One can imagine how different his life would have been if David had remembered cowering in fear, or if he had remembered the comet as shining solely on him. Instead, he remembered working with others to achieve success and approval from both siblings and the two adult role models most important to him: his father, a very powerful, celebrating man and his mother, a strong, supportive woman, both undaunted by life’s unknowns. Chapter 3 1 John Ferguson Snell, Macdonald College of McGill University: A History from 1904–1955 (Montreal: McGill University Press, 1966), p. 76. All other references to Macdonald College are confirmed by this publication. Chapter 4 1 Anita Wisti and Jim Airhart, Glimpses of Marmora (Marmora: self-published , 1974) p. 59. 2 R.G. Walsh, “Deloro.” Speech to the Marmora Chamber of Commerce, 2 April 1953 (Village of Deloro archive, Marmora Historical Society), p. 2. NOTES 3 Ibid., p. 4. 4 Wisti and Airhart, Glimpses of Marmora, p. 61. 5 Walsh, “Deloro,” p. 4. 6 “Deloro Village Refuses to Die,” Belleville Ontario Intelligencer, 7 November 1962, sec. 2, p. 15. 7 Various articles, The Deloro Once-A-Week, 1, 6 (24 April 1920). 8 Donald M. Liddell, ed., Handbook of Non-Ferrous Metallurgy (New York: McGraw Hill, 1926), p. 811. 9 Ibid., p. 812. 10 Ibid., p. 814. 11 The Safety Committee of Deloro Smelting & Refining Company Ltd. Its History, Organisation, Constitution, Etc., pamphlet, Village of Deloro. Chapter 5 1 Details from an interview with John Thompson, at Claresholm Museum, July 1994. 2 Claresholm History Book Club, Where the Wheatlands Meet the Prairies (Claresholm, AB: 1974), p. 298. Subsequent references to Claresholm families were confirmed by this book, pp. 208, 345, 483. Chapter 6 1 Salmon Arm Museum and Heritage Association A Salmon Arm Scrapbook (Salmon Arm, BC: Salmon Arm Museum and Heritage Association, 1980), pp. 47-51. Chapter 7 1 Ken Favrholdt and John Stewart, “Adult Education for Farmers,” Kamloops Daily News, 25 November 1988, p. 24. 2 Deleeuw family, Kamloops Sentinel index (cards), Kamloops Museum and Archives. 3 Favrholdt and Stewart, Kamloops Daily News, 25 November 1988, p. 24. 4 Jimmy McPhee, “Pete Moore Has Breeding on the Brain,” British Columbia Weekly, 15 March 1948. (Caldow family saved clipping, page number not saved.) 5 Pierre Berton, The Great Depression: 1929-1939 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990), p. 350. Chapter 8 1 “The Insane Asylum,” Victoria Colonist, 14 December 1896 (microfilm, Provincial Archives, Victoria, BC). 2 “Return to an Order of the House for all papers and correspondence relating to the appointment of a Resident Physician for the Asylum for the Insane at New Westminster,” Province of British Columbia Sessional Papers—3rd sess., 4th parliament,” 1885, pp. 329-30 (Provincial Library, Victoria, BC). 3 Horace A. Sheridan-Bickers, “The Treatment of the Insane: Farming as a Cure for Madness, British Columbia’s Novel Experiment,” Man to Man 240 Notes 6, no. 12 (December 1910): 1050-59 (BC Archives Library Catalogue, Victoria). 4 “Annual Report on the Asylum for the Insane,” Province of British Columbia Sessional Papers, vol. 2, 3rd sess., 19th parliament, 1939, p. xii (Provincial Library, Victoria, BC). 5 Pierre Berton, The Great Depression:1929-1939 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990), p. 373. 6 Ibid., p. 374. Chapter 9 1 Pierre Berton, The Great Depression: 1929-1939 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990), pp. 502-507. Chapter 12 1 Jimmy McFee, “Pete Moore Has Breeding on the Brain,” British Columbian Weekly, 15 March 1948, p. 27. Chapter 13 1 Sybil A. MacFarlane, “Tranquille: Memories of the 1940s...