When Gordon and Lois moved to Dicksons Corners in 1942 one of their closest neighbours was the Calders. Jim and Mary Calder who lived in a large white frame house on 100 acres of land across Highway
2, had two children: Gordon who was younger than Betty Lou and Margaret who was a year younger than Lois Ann. As children, we spent a lot of time with the Calder kids. Of course, we attended the same school SS#3 North Oxford where Gordon McEwan was the teacher. We also attended the same United Church in the nearby village of
Thamesford. Here is a picture taken in March 1946 of the five children standing on the front steps of the school on a Sunday after we had arrived home from church. Then, in a re-creation of that scene, here are the five of us on a recent Saturday afternoon over 63 years later.
2, had two children: Gordon who was younger than Betty Lou and Margaret who was a year younger than Lois Ann. As children, we spent a lot of time with the Calder kids. Of course, we attended the same school SS#3 North Oxford where Gordon McEwan was the teacher. We also attended the same United Church in the nearby village of Thamesford. Here is a picture taken in March 1946 of the five children standing on the front steps of the school on a Sunday after we had arrived home from church. Then, in a re-creation of that scene, here are the five of us on a recent Saturday afternoon over 63 years later.
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