I’m writing a book based on my grandfather’s memoirs: When the Great Red Dawn is Shining: Howard L. Morry’s Memoirs of Life in the Newfoundland Regiment. It is due to be published by Breakwater this month (October). In the final editing phase, as I was adding illustrations, it suddenly dawned on me that these two…
This photo of a funeral cortege is that of an English seaman, N. C. Bennett, RN. His body was found washed up on the shore of Portugal Cove South in 1942 by a local woman. At first his identity was unknown. But then information was brought forward that told the sad story. The website “Canada’s…
Sometime late in the 1960s, the attention of the government of the day was drawn to the location of one of Canada’s oldest settlements, the Colony of Avalon in Ferryland, by a group of dedicated local history buffs including my late grandfather, Howard Leopold Morry. To commemorate the site that was named the Colony of…
One of dozens of automobile companies that started and failed in the early 1900s was the Curtiss Motor Car Co., Hammondsport, New York. They lasted in the business for exactly two years, 1920 and 1921. This is important background as it dates pretty clearly the accompanying photograph. The photo was taken by Trix (Beatrice) Morry…
I am going through my parents’ old photographs and making digital copies of those worth preserving and sharing. The enclosed is a photograph of the staff of the Standard Manufacturing Company at the east end of Water St. My grandfather, John Thomas Carr Wheeler, is seated at the far left in front. The man at…
I thought your readers might like to have the enclosed digital copy of a photograph found in my late aunt Jean (Morry) Funkhouser’s collection of photos. Her husband, Jack, was a Quartermaster in the US Navy based at Argentia during the war and this photo was undoubtedly taken by him or one of his mates…
