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Jack was born in Prelate, Saskatchewan, but never really lived there. His mother and her family lived in Prelate, and it was there that she went to birth Jack. He thinks it might be because her first child died and she wanted to go to a better hospital, but Jack isn't sure. Jack was born February 25, 1931 and lived his early life in Bindloss, Alberta just west of Empress. He says it was a dried out and poor farming area. Jack's father was a mechanic, welder, and blacksmith so they managed to survive there.\n\nJack lived the first 20 years of his life in Bindloss, but started at the University of Alberta at age 17 and a half. He achieved a standard teaching certificate and started teaching. Jack started teaching when he was 19 after moving to Bow Island, Alberta. Jack taught there for about 1 year before getting a better job in Milk River, Alberta. Jack stayed in Milk River for about 20 years. He was married at age 22 and had 4 daughters later on, who he names. In 1970, he moved to Taber, Alberta where he worked in the central office of the Taber School Division. 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Canada declared war immediately against Germany. Jack remembers the rationing of certain foods; each family was issued a certain number of coupons which would provide a certain allotment of sugar, coffee, tea, butter, jam, and other goods (Jack forgets some of the other things). He remembers the important one was sugar: people stopped using sugar in their coffee as it was scarce. Jack remembers drinking coffee despite being young, and Jack's mother wouldn't give them any sugar to put in the coffee.\n\nJack remembers a party being held at his parents' home. There was a young boy from Empress, Alberta that had just joined up to go overseas. Jack's family hosted the farewell party at their home. There was beer, wine, singing, dancing, and playing instruments: it was a nice farewell. Jack thinks the boy's name was Frankie Highmoor (sp?) who was in his early 20s. Jack says he was a striking looking young man in his new uniform. A month later, word was received that Frankie had been killed overseas. Jack remembers there were lots of sad moments like that as people were lost or killed. Jack's aunt was a party girl and she married an airman, last name was Maguire. As he was in the airforce, they rushed to get married as he had to go overseas. After 3 or 4 months, the letter came back saying that he was missing and killed in action in North Africa, fighting Germans and Italians.\n\nJack remembers wishing he was old enough to go and fight the Germans, Japanese, or anyone that was fighting Canada and her allies. By the time he was old enough, the war was over. Jack and some of his friends in high school joined the Southern Alberta Regiment in Medicine Hat, which was a reserve force. 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For summer vacations, Jack's family would go out and visit the farms, which really meant work on the farms for the farmers. They were treated well by the farmers, housed and fed. But they had to pull weeds in the garden, pumping water for horses and cattle, sometimes tramping in a header barge (things were dry and they were harvesting Russian thistle to feed the livestock for the winter). Jack remembers one farm he worked at, the farmer had a 1929 Chevrolet car which was kept in beautiful shape. On Saturday night, he would drive them to Empress, but because the farmer lacked the money for a license, he would park the car a half-mile outside of the town and they all had to walk the rest of the way into town. At the end of the evening, after they got a small ice cream cone (which the farmer bought) they would walk back to the car and they would drive home again. This was during the Great Depression, so nobody near Bindloss had much money. Jack remembers a sheep rancher lost a great number of sheep during one of the winters. Then Jack's father, and a number of other people, would be paid to skin the sheep and toss the sheep carcasses into the Red Deer River to be carried away. Jack thinks his father received 5 cents per sheep he skinned.\n\nJack remembers a lot of people were on relief which meant the government provided them with certain food items and other things. Most of the food came from Eastern Canada, like apples, fish, and cheeses. Jack's father wasn't on relief, but still managed to get some of those items. A box car of apples was shipped into Bindloss and rationed out to the farmers in the area, and Jack's family managed to get some of the apples. They also got some dried and salted codfish which Jack hated. Jack said his father was of the German ethic and said \"you ate what was on your plate\". Jack's mother, who was Irish, wouldn't have made Jack eat it, but Jack's father did. Jack also remembers using those dried and salted fish as bases at the baseball diamond because they were flat and they didn't have anything else. 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The kids made dart guns out of wood and inner tubes, and shot arrows into Mr Chudley's prize pumpkin once which angered Mr Chudley. The kids were never caught, but Jack thinks Mr Chudley knew who was doing it. The kids also stole some corn from his garden, just for kicks.\n\nJack and his brother, Bud, their jobs around the house were to split wood for the fire, get the coal ready for the stove, and to haul a 5 gallon cream can of water from the town well which was actually a quarter mile outside of the town. They had a small wagon for the water. That water was their drinking water for the day. There was a cistern in the basement that gathered rainwater which was used for washing. If there wasn't enough rainwater, Jack's father would retrieve water from the river with his truck. In winter, they would cut blocks of snow to melt on the stove which Jack's mother would use to wash her hair. Automobiles could not be used in winter as the snow blocked all roads. 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There were maybe 15 kids altogether in different grades. Jack was put into grade 1 early because, if he was not, he would have been alone in grade 1 the following year as there were no other kids his age in town. At recess, one of the pass-times was to drown gophers as there was a bounty on gophers at the time. Every gopher tail was worth 1 cent, but the kids could trade a gopher tail for a jawbreaker or liquorice candy. The store would then trade the tails into the government for cash. They mainly played softball for sports at the school. There was a large set of swings, as well.\n\nBindloss had 3 grain elevators, a 1 room school, and a Chinese restaurant. The kids liked the owner of the restaurant who could neither read nor write in English. He used an abacus to do calculations, which were quite accurate. The owner would have some of the kids write out cheques for him when he needed to pay the bills of the wholesalers. The owner would also cut pork and beef himself; Jack remembers he would make the best steaks on his cast iron wood and coal stove. Jack remembers the owner saying \"apple pie or raisin pie, raisin pie all gone\". The owner would make Chinese food for himself and eat with chopsticks. People liked to hang out at the restaurant if they could.\n\nThere was also a lumber yard with some hardware and grocery business, and Hermon Motors which was Jack's father's business. Hermon Motors did vehicle repair, welding, and hardware store. Jack remembers fixing tires for farmers, since the farmers didn't have the necessary tools to do it. Jack and his brother had to work, but they enjoyed work. Jack later on became interested in horses and cowboying, while his brother did not. Jack spent more and more time working on ranches than farms, and loved that kind of work. He worked at a ranch on the Red Deer River for several years. 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Jack suddenly lost control of the horses which started running. Jack fell underneath the rake and was rolled for a distance with the hay before the rake hit a bump, jumped, and released Jack. Bradley was worried that his team of horses, upon seeing the other runaway team of horses, might try to join them, but Bradley managed to keep them under control. The team ran out the gate, but the rake got caught on the gate post, destroying the rake. The horses ran away with the harness they had on them, while the rake was left behind. Jack's team ran out into the pasture. Bradley and his wife, Edith, brought Jack to their house and tried to help him as best they could. He never went to the doctor in those days: Jack says that, if you were still living, they let nature take its course. The next day, Bradley found the team and brought them back. It was a rattlesnake that spooked the horses and caused the entire incident. 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He was a good friend of Jack's. They would go down to the river and shoot rabbits in the winter. They also would go fishing in the Red Deer River. Jack and his friends would gather grasshoppers and use them as bait to catch little fish in the river. They would then take those small fish, called chubs, to bait a night line which had 7 or 8 hooks on it. The night line would be left over night and the kids would ride their bikes out to check it every morning before school. They usually caught 2 or 3 decently sized fish, usually pickerel, occasionally pike, and ling which is like an eel. Jack's parents didn't like eating the ling, but an English family in town did. The fish they caught would be eaten.\n\nThey also ate a fair amount of deer as Jack's father was a skilled shot and hunter. As the family was not on a farm, they ate deer meat. 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Jack says the food was unlike what Chinese food is like at other Chinese restaurants. He says it wasn't that tasty. The Chinese food that was made was mostly just for the owner. The owner would give out a ginger root that was peeled and soaked in a very sweet syrup. Jack's family would receive a couple jars of it during Christmas. He would also give Jack's father a small bottle of Chinese whiskey. Jack never had any, but he believes it was quite potent. The restaurant owner never spoke fluent English, but he would give everybody a name, sometimes the names were unflattering if he didn't like the person. \n\nJack's family didn't produce a lot of their own food as they didn't have a decent garden. Jack's father went hunting quite a bit and they had quite a bit of wild game. One of the farmers gave Jack's family a lot of potatoes one winter as there was more than the farmer could use. They also kept carrots in the basement, or at least tried to. Jack says his family never suffered for food. They never had a lot of fresh vegetables and they had a lot of dried vegetables. At noon, they had a full meal (dinner) and a full supper in the evening. They ate a lot of meat, carrots, canned peas from the store, cheese which was purchased in a large round, and they would have macaroni and cheese on Fridays as Jack's mother was Catholic and wouldn't eat meat on Fridays. They also had codfish and canned salmon. They had enough money to get by.\n\nJack's mother cooked and worked in the hardware store. Some girls of German descent were hired to work for Jack's mother. Jack says many of the German families were large and would hire out their children to local businesses to work and earn money. They might earn 50 dollars a month with room and board. On payday, the father would come along and take the girls' cheques, leaving them with very little. Jack says his mother would give the girls little things on the side so that they had something. 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However, because Prelate was a town heavily influenced by German people, and because Jack's mother was taught by German speaking nuns, she could speak a fair amount of German. In Prelate, German was a second or first language for a lot of people. When Jack was baptized, Jack's mother wanted him named John, but the priest named him Johann in his baptismal certificate. Jack says some of the Germans that spoke openly in favour of Hitler were arrested as enemy aliens.\n\nJack didn't speak German growing up, but there were a lot of German expressions growing up. His father would sing in German and swear in German. He could converse in German, though not fluently. 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