And now for something completely different...

This is Ken having fun at my expense! 

Today is Remembrance Day and I think of how my dad missed both wars because he was too young to serve in WWI and too old for WWII. But he did his part, in a way, by working in the munitions factory turning scrap metal into tanks.

 Here are some photos I used as reference for my book. This was the view of the scrap yard from our living room window, taken by my sister Barb sometime in the early 70's with my dad and sister Beryl in the foreground. That's me in the background with my brother Ed and our dog!

Here's a wider angle view of the front yard - directly behind the big building was an ice rink. It took us hours to clear the snow, but it was worth it to have our very own little Maple Leaf gardens!

The scrap piled higher and higher, and every few years my dad would hire a crane to stack the cars on a flatbed truck to be hauled away to Hamilton and recycled. This was my playground growing up!!! 

This is the only good picture I have of my dads boom-truck, unfortunately you can't see the back part. In my book I did show the whole thing.