Notes
1. Pierre Berton, Remember Yesterday: A Century of Photographs (Toronto: The Canadian Centennial Publishing Co. Ltd., 1965), 62.
2. Richard B. Wright, The Age of Longing (Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995), 129.
Prologue
1. Joy Parr, Labouring Children (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1980), 126–27.
2. Jean Little, Orphan at My Door (Toronto: Scholastic Canada Ltd., 2001), 51, 61, 70, 73.
3. Mary Pettit, Mary Janeway (Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2000), 100.
One: London
1. Alan Phillips, Into the 20th Century (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Limited, 1977), 14.
Two: Summer in Goderich
1. Tourism Goderich advertisement, back cover Harrowsmith per discussion with Bob Marshall, tourism manager, Port of Goderich.
2. Interview with Margaret McHolme, January 2002.
3. Pettit, Mary 77
4. Canada Company commissioner, John Galt, and Dr. William Dunlop, the founders of Goderich in 1827, apparently were great partiers. It is said that while drinking one night they made a joke about switching the plans for Guelph and Goderich but it never happened. Goderich was designed after Roman city plans and the word “square” means “meeting place” and has nothing to do with its configuration. Discussion with Bob Marshall, tourism manager, Port of Goderich.
Three: Back in London
1. Phillips, Into the 20th 116.
2. 7.
3. Pettit, Mary 84–85.
4. Margaret Sambrook McHolme, My Unique Heritage, My Grandmothers’ Ways and Sayings (Goderich, Ontario: self-published,1990), 8.
5. 8–9.
Four: Mrs. B. Gets Sick
1. Craig Brown, The Illustrated History of Canada (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Ltd., 1987), 396.
Five: Woodstock
1. Art Williams and Edward Baker, Woodstock: Bits & Pieces (Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press, 1967), 99.
2. Caroline Routh, Women’s Fashions in Style: 100 Years of Canadian Women’s Fashion (Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, 1993), 6.
3. Williams & Baker, 68–69.
4. 144.
Six: Hamilton
1. Michael J. Dear, J.J. Drake, and Lloyd George Reeds, Steel City: Hamilton and Region (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987), 124, 125,127.
2. The Crazy Twenties 1920/1930: Canada’s Illustrated Heritage (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Limited, 1978), 86.
3. Houghton, Margaret, ed., Vanished Hamilton III (Burlington, Ontario: North Shore Publishing Inc., 2007), 11.
Seven: The Lunch Pail Town
1. Lois Evans, Hamilton: The Story of a City (Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1970), 181.
Eight: Queen Victoria’s Birthday
1. Edward Shorter, A History of Women’s Bodies (New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1982), 156.
2. Pettit, Mary 5.
3. Phillips, Into the 20th 74.
4. Little, Orphan at My 46–48.
5. Interview with Dr. Ruth Shykoff (Dr. Sky), September 2001.
Nine: The Church Family
1. Marjorie Freeman Campbell, A Mountain and a City: The Story of Hamilton (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1966), 209.
2. Pettit, Mary 47.
3. Susanna McLeod, “The Russell Motor Car, A Canadian Automobile,” Canadian accessed February 2011.
4. Phillips, Into the 20th 66.
Ten: Infantile Paralysis
1. John M. Last, MD, “Polio — Early History, Polio Epidemics, The Medical Response — Encyclopedia of Children,” accessed February 26, 2011.
2. Naomi Rogers, Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992), 1.
3. Lauro Halstead and Gunnar Grimby, Post-Polio Syndrome (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Hanley & Belfus, Inc., 1995), 204.
4. Interview with Dr. Ruth Shykoff, June 24, 2001.
Eleven: Unexpected Visitors
1. Campbell, A Mountain and a City: The Story of Hamilton, 216.
2. Pettit, Mary 72.
3. Troon Harrison, A Bushel of Light (Toronto: Stoddart Kids, 2000), 88.
4. Little, Orphan at My 50.
5. Waskatenau and Districts Historical Society: By River and Trail (Waskatenau, Alberta: Waskatenau and Districts Historical Society, 1986), 930.
6. Roger David Brown, Blood on the Coal (Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press Limited, 1976), 15.
Twelve: Life Goes On
1. Brown, The Illustrated History of 396.
Thirteen: A Dream Comes True
1. Phillips, Into the 20th 76.
2. Historical Committee Public and Safety Information Branch, Footpaths to Freeways (Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, 1984), 56, 59.
3. Frank Ernest Hill, The Automobile: How It Came, Grew, and Has Changed Our Lives (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1967), 38.
4. Phillips, Into the 20th 110.
Fourteen: Hamilton: A City of Firsts
1. Terry Boyle and Ron Brown, Ontario Album: Images of the Past from the Private Files of Terry Boyle & Ron Brown (Toronto: Polar Bear Express, 1998), 14.
Fifteen: Missing Person
1. John Craig, The Years of Agony, 1910/1920: Canada’s Illustrated Heritage (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Limited, 1977), 18.
2. Pettit, Mary 100.
3. Routh, Women’s Fashions in 27.
Sixteen: Centennial Celebrations
1. “Spectacular Storm Lasted Several Hours,” The Hamilton August 11, 1913, 1.
2. Brian Henley, Hamilton Back Then (Burlington, Ontario: North Shore Publishing Inc., 1998), 62.
Seventeen: A Wedding and a War
1. Craig, The Years of 42.
2. Ibid., 50.
3. Pettit, Mary 49.
4. Doug Symons, “Woodstock of the 1910s: Lights go on as City Enters Great War,” in Woodstock’s Centennial 1901–2001: A Look Back at Woodstock and the World (Woodstock, Ontario: Annex Publishing & Printing Limited, 2001), 12.
5. Taped interview of Emma (Janeway) Touchings by daughter Lois Lamble, Victoria, British Columbia, May 1976.
6. Henley, Hamilton Back 73.
7. Craig, The Years of 64.
8. Bill Freeman, Hamilton: A People’s History (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2001), 124.
9. Brian Henley, The Grand Old Buildings of Hamilton (Burlington, Ontario: North Shore Publishing Inc., 1994), 80.
Eighteen: A Bitter Cold Winter
1. Craig, The Years of 18.
2. Carl F. Klinck, Robert Service: A Biography (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1976), 16.
3. Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (New York Barse & Hopkins Publishers, 1916), 73.
Nineteen: Armistice
1. Craig, The Years of 107.
2. 105.
3. Marjorie Campbell, A Mountain and a City: The Story of 208. The reference is to Sir William Hearst, a lifelong temperance advocate, whose Conservative government passed the Ontario Temperance Act barring the legal sale of beer and liquor in licenced hotels.
4. The Years of 107.
5. 107–08.
Twenty: The Roaring Twenties
1. Thomas Melville Bailey, For the Public Good: A History of the Birth Control Clinic and the Planned Parenthood Society of Hamilton, Ontario Canada (Hamilton, Ontario: W.I. Griffin Limited, 1974), 3.
2. John Craig, The Years of 32, 36.
Twenty-One: Mr. Jacques’s Funeral
1. The Crazy Twenties 1920/1930: Canada’s Illustrated Heritage (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Limited, 1978), 34.
2. Interview with Joseph Jacques, grandson of Daniel Jacques, March 2001.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Pettit, Mary 39
7. 106
8. 108
9. 27
10. 34–35
11. 44
12. Interview with Joseph Jacques, March 2001
13.
Twenty-Two: A Child Is Born, a Child Is Lost
1. The Crazy 13.
2. Angus McLaren, The Bedroom and the State: The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880–1980 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986), 22–23.
Twenty-Three: Picking up the Pieces
1. The Crazy 73.
2. Elizabeth L. Post, Emily Post’s Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, Inc., 1965), 671. Original edition, 1922.
3. Freeman, 124–25.
Twenty-Four: A Knock on the Door
1. The Crazy 20.
Twenty-Five: Kingston Penitentiary
1. George Scott, Inmate: The Casebook Revelations of a Canadian Penitentiary Psychiatrist (Montreal-Toronto: Optimum Publishing International Inc., 1982), 9.
2. Dave St. Onge, curator of Correctional Services of Canada Museum, Kingston, Ontario, email received on May 17, 2001.
3. Canadian Government Publishing Centre Supply and Services Canada, Kingston Penitentiary: The First Hundred and Fifty Years 1835–1985 (Ottawa: Kromar Printing Ltd., 1985), 98.
4. 99.
5. Paul Pettit read this graffiti scribbled on a wall in the men’s washroom at an industrial worksite forty years ago.
Twenty-Six: Ottawa Street
1. Post, Emily Post’s 677.
Twenty-Seven: Stony Mountain
1. The Crazy 8.
2. 114.8
Twenty-Eight: Freedom at Last
1. The Crazy 117.
2. Merilyn Simonds, The Convict Lover: A True Story (Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1996), 58.
Twenty-Nine: The Great Crash
1. The Crazy 118–19.
2. S.J. Kerr, Fish and Fisheries Management in Ontario: A Chronology of Events (Peterborough, Ontario: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Biodiversity Branch, 2010), 24.
3. Phone conversation with Rene (Enright) Church in 2001.
Thirty: The Turning Point
1. Stephen Franklin, A Time of Heroes 1940/1950 (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Limited, 1977), 120.
Thirty-One: A Family at Last
1. Alexander Ross, The Booming Fifties 1950/1960 (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Limited, 1977), 72.
Thirty-Two: A Milestone
1. Freeman, 156.
Thirty-Three: The Final Chapter
1. Alan Edmonds, The Years of Protest 1960/1970: Canada’s Illustrated Heritage (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Limited, 1979), 7.