After a couple of years Peter Tagliamonti and I heard of an Italian Church. The Rev. Liborio Latton was the minister and the service was in Italian. The Rev. Latton was very fluent in several languages.
In connection with Rev. Latton’s church was a day school for children; their ages ran from seven to twelve years old. The teacher was a beautiful young lady; so, Peter and I inquired about the feasibility of admitting us, as we were both twenty years old.
After attending for one week we were accepted to the school. We attended until April when we started to look for work again.
We went to work on the construction of the Welland Canal. I was there until July after which some of us went to Cobalt, Ontario, to prospect for silver and gold. We found a job there.
We slept in a tent. We made beds with brushes of pines. With the coming of the cold weather (October) we returned to Montreal where we spent the winter waiting for the coming of spring.
The monotony was broken up with the coming of snow storms we secured jobs shoveling snow and breaking ice.
In connection with Rev. Latton’s church was a day school for children; their ages ran from seven to twelve years old. The teacher was a beautiful young lady; so, Peter and I inquired about the feasibility of admitting us, as we were both twenty years old.
After attending for one week we were accepted to the school. We attended until April when we started to look for work again.
We went to work on the construction of the Welland Canal. I was there until July after which some of us went to Cobalt, Ontario, to prospect for silver and gold. We found a job there.
We slept in a tent. We made beds with brushes of pines. With the coming of the cold weather (October) we returned to Montreal where we spent the winter waiting for the coming of spring.
The monotony was broken up with the coming of snow storms we secured jobs shoveling snow and breaking ice.
Click Welland for a link to free archive read online or download, great story of a man who also worked on the Wetland Canal for 38 years. Thomas Bones the most well known man-… who threw ink on the devil.
If you do not get the Link when you click Welland Canal above try cut and paste
The Address to the link is:
WWW.archive.org/details/thomasbonesailor00gibsuoft
If you do not get the Link when you click Welland Canal above try cut and paste
The Address to the link is:
WWW.archive.org/details/thomasbonesailor00gibsuoft
Click Cobalt for link to google earth location and pictures of Cobalt area.
Good thing for Pascal that he was in Cobalt in 1909, because the Typhoid Out Break missed that town.
Good thing for Pascal that he was in Cobalt in 1909, because the Typhoid Out Break missed that town.
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I bid on ebay for an origional copy of Thomas Bones ... The Sailor's Friend origional Book from 1909...but lost out on the bid by 1 Canadian Dollar...oh that would have been a nice piece of history.
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