Some family history...
Robert Donald Tassie -my grand father(Father was a Judge in Ontario)
Lived in Walkerville/Dresden Ont He gave me a year 1969, we did visit a family in that area but that was way before then..Maybe my memory will kick in when I give this more thought.
They shipped cattle to Olds Alta.

Lillian Martha Dresch (poss. German or Swiss)
Annarbour Michigan 1958 Penhold....Maybe she visited us or we visited her...

Robert Philip
1917
Port William/Port Arthur Thunder Bay

Arthur Clark
1919
Windsor Ont Prince Rupert B.C. nat. home( not sure what I ment there)

Albert Harold
New Westminister

Margaret Cornell

John Tassie Indian Chief Snowdrift......I am not sure what we were on when I wrote that

Great Grandad
Worked with Henry Ford
Was a fireman on the Toronto/Sarnia Railrood in the early 1900's
Went to college, Palmer School Anhoule Michigan ...First Student in the first class in Chiropractic Medicine, was the first Chiro in Ontario and Thunder Bay

Dad lived in Prince Rupert until he was 6/7 then moved to Port Alberni.
When he was 11 yrs old worked on ranch in the summer shovelling hay.
Went to High School in Port Henry- grade 10.
When he was 15 he went to Barkerville with Grampa and got a job working in the kitchen (go figure) at Maw McKinnon Hotel also worked in a store and the mines.

He left in 1938 and went to Prince rupert to work on boats, fishing patrol, I think the boat was the Alberni.

He was a light house tender and did the cooking also.

In 1939 he joined the navy, he enlisted in Prince Rubert and went to war.
His parents were not overly happy about this. Uncle Albert joined the army reserve, in 1941 joined the navy. Uncle Bob joined the army.

Dad's 1st base was Esquimalt for training, they were given rifles but never got to use them, first ship was the Carradoc a British light cruiser (bigger than a destroyer)

Was a cook and was removed from the Carrodoc as a replacement for 3 months on the Prince Robert (escort) Hong Kong with the Winnepeg Genageries (I don't think this is spelt right but Dad spelt in out for me) also escorted the Awatea a Pacific & Orient Liner.

The Canadain Regiment was going to Hong Kong to fight the Japanesse . He went to Australia before war was declared on US.

Went to Pearl Harbour and was just about back in Victoria when Pearl Harbour was bombed.

Went down off Mexico, They capatured and brought back to Canada a German ship ( an armed raider) to Esquimalt he thought the name was Weser.

Was on the Prince David sister ship Alvetiano

Commissioned the Guysboro mine sweeper in 1943

Was in Naniamo with commandos, training and cooking. 1944

Commissioned Antigonish went to the West Indies, Bermuda for 6 weeks, St. John's Nfld, Londonderry, Meronance Russia

Volunteered to go back to Japan but war ended in 1945 and he got out of the Navy.

Met Mom in Vancouver ---when both were young and innocent---his words. Married in 1940 He said he was drunk in a bar and Mom cornered him. He was 20 and she was 18 they were married in an Anglican Church in Vancouver.

From Vancouver they went to Naniamo with Bonnie and Marg, went to Port Alberni ---cafe work slinging hash and burning toast.

When he was 17 he hitchhiked from Barkerville to Clinton BC, it was Christmas and they let him spend the night in a cell and all he could remember was being very cold, it was 29 below and he got a bowl of slimy watery porridge for Christmas dinner.

I wish I had spent more time doing this with him and that instead of trying to take notes that I had taped his words.