If you like the writing, check out Dear Bill and One Long Journey: Deep roots in Ontario, now available at Amazon.ca.
Dear Bill is a collection of real love letters found after the death of my parents. They shed some light on late teenage life in Toronto in the early 1950’s, which was really early adult life back then. It turned out that Mom wrote letters to Dad nearly every day that she was separated from him in 1952, when he left Toronto to seek work in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. We don’t have any of Dad’s letters back to her; she didn’t save them. However, making the inferences is half the fun. With over 60 photos and plenty of historical information, Dear Bill is a journey back to a time few people alive still remember.
Not going to lie – One Long Journey: Deep roots in Ontario will probably only interest family members and anyone attached to the Long family who’s researching the family’s origins in Canada. It traces our branch of the Longs on both my father’s maternal and paternal side back to the ship that arrived in Pennsylvania in 1733 with the Long family on board, and to the soldier who arrived in New France in the 1670’s who bore the name Larocque (sort of)*, and whose descendants eventually included my paternal grandmother.
*Look up “researching “dit” names in Québec” if you want to know more about that qualifier.