A Place of Creation

A Place of Creation --------------------- Telephone City, Wayne Gretzky’s home town, the place of my birth. Thirty three years, I played, worked and walked this piece of earth. Given - by Sir Frederick Haldimand, “ Haldimand Proclamation, ” - to the Iroquois, six miles, each side of the Grand River, the six Nation Reserve, from its source to its mouth ( 950,000 acres ) 904,000 eradicated, 46,000 acres left for the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, the rest confiscated, as the Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora are left to share this land. Most taken by many devious means at the white man’s hand. This is the place I grew up, the place that educated me. The mean Streets of Brantford, forty years I seldom see. Three thousand miles, forty two years away. Life has been, in many ways, lived within a fray. Home is where the soul, the spirit, the heart is, anyway. So out here in beautiful B. C., is where I will stay. B. J. “A” 2 April 4th 2016

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Jan Allison

Date: 4/8/2016 11:06:00 AM

Times move on and the world changes around us but home is where the heart is Bill - I will never move from our little Island:-) I remember going back to my childhood home in the Uk and wished I'd not - it had changed beyond all recognition - by my memories are something that can never change:-) hugs jan xx

William J. Jr. Atfield
Date: 4/8/2016 1:11:00 PM

Good morning Jan : So nice to see a word or two from you. Thank you for the visit and the communique. I am sorry Jan, that “ I remember going back to my childhood home in the Uk and wished I'd not - it had changed beyond all recognition - ” it was such a disappointment. As for my home town, not much has changed, in a hundred years, around the areas I grew up in, except a couple of missing houses, some new paint, everything else remains the same. Even the down town area remains the same except for buildings in a couple of blocks, on one side of the main street, that have been torn down, a couple of new ones erected, the rest just house new business . Anyway Jan, Have a great weekend Bill .