Read on Twitter
Spent the afternoon digging through my late grandfather’s meticulous collection of treasures. He was born in 1919 and served in WWII. Would you like to see some things I found? (If not, move along!)
Gasoline rations booklet 43-44, photo of a Calgarian uncle with a bear ~20s/30s
Gasoline rations booklet 43-44, photo of a Calgarian uncle with a bear ~20s/30s
Political cartoons and headlines in @WinnipegNews from WWII, including the death of Hitler.
A soldier’s rations tin from WWI, must have gotten it from his father. Christmas 1914. Does anyone know what those “M”s mean?
A WWII US army-issued bible with a note from FDR dated 1941 and a warning to only write your name in it lest a lost copy affords info to the enemy.
A WWII US army-issued bible with a note from FDR dated 1941 and a warning to only write your name in it lest a lost copy affords info to the enemy.
A handwritten account of the sinking of the Santa Elena, torpedoed by Germans in November 1943 that my grandfather survived.
The “Every Officer’s Note Book,” which offers detailed instruction of movements and words of command in infantry drill.
The “Every Officer’s Note Book,” which offers detailed instruction of movements and words of command in infantry drill.
Photos of my grandfather ~1950 working for the City of Winnipeg.
One of my favs: page in his scrapbook labeled “Dutch Girl Friends” from his time billeted there post-liberation of Holland.
Page from scrapbook of local men he knew killed.
Christmas msg to his family, 1943.
One of my favs: page in his scrapbook labeled “Dutch Girl Friends” from his time billeted there post-liberation of Holland.
Page from scrapbook of local men he knew killed.
Christmas msg to his family, 1943.
Menu @CNRailway train from, if # at the bottom is a date, 1939. Includes Shrimp, Lobster or Crab cocktail for 35c!
For The Crown fans: News clipping from the abdication of Edward VIII, 1936.
The armband gramps wore as a city employee doing crowd control for Royal visit, 1939.
For The Crown fans: News clipping from the abdication of Edward VIII, 1936.
The armband gramps wore as a city employee doing crowd control for Royal visit, 1939.
More personal: gramps and some pals circa 1950 (he’s on the left), this photo of a poodle from 1970, gramps and nana in Alberta ~1950, nana with her new bike, bro and dog ~early 1940s
My great grandpa as a young man with his car. Undated, maybe 1920s?
Gramps’ sisters in
coats on a Winnipeg street in the 1930s.
Nana and her brother at Winnipeg beach ~1933. Look at their swimming costumes!
No idea who the last person is, but the photo is dated 1896!!!
Gramps’ sisters in
coats on a Winnipeg street in the 1930s. Nana and her brother at Winnipeg beach ~1933. Look at their swimming costumes!
No idea who the last person is, but the photo is dated 1896!!!
Lastly, this little nerd, circa 1994. Not sure who she is but damn I’d like to cop her style today. Those are two different mustard coloured turtlenecks! 
