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Interview of Jane & Peter Hammond
Dec 23 2011 Jane Hammond (née Jane Elle Campbell, b. 1949 in Toronto) is the youngest of four children. Her father, Albert McTaggart Campbell (b. 1910 in Strathroy, Ontario, d. 1973) was the eldest surviving son of seven-eight children, two of whom died from appendicitis. Growing up in a farming community, he received his Bachelor's of Science in Agriculture from the University of Guelph before teaching science in northern Ontario. After marrying he moved to South Ontario where he became…
Interview of Cilla Bachop
February 27 2005 Lucilla Bachop (b. October 22, 1946, Edinburgh) was adopted into a family of nine children. As the youngest, she had four older sisters and four older brothers. Her adopted father, James (b. 1891, Glasgow), had a shoe-making/repair shop on the High Street that his father had started. He was the second eldest in his family. Cilla vividly remembers her father's fabulous vocabulary and his love for football and cigarettes. Cilla's paternal adopted grandfather, James (b. Glasgow…
Interview of Reid Maxwell
Reid Maxwell November 6 2012, November 13 2012 Born: John Reid Thompson Maxwell. Born Jan 29 1961, raised in hospital in Concordie, family home in Bowhill, Cardenden. First grandchild, oldest of 2 sisters (one living in Fife, another in England), recently learned of a half-sister came from his father's time in South Africa. John Reid after his grandfather, who he knew quite well and considered his best friend. Thomas Maxwell was his paternal grandmother's first husband who died. He stayed…