John Vallely was a son of Michael Vallely and Mary Ryan. He was born in Lanark Co., Ontario in 1861, and emigrated to Grand Forks, North Dakota about 1882. In 1889 he married another Canadian emigrant to North Dakota: Anna…
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Johnny Moran sings ‘The Jolly Tinker’
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My dad loved life; and family; and food; and drink; and song: he loved life, he loved it all. He had a big heart. And he loved life: he loved it all. As a younger man, when he was hale…
John Alexander Moran (1934-2013)
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John Alexander Moran, 6 September 1934 – 14 March 2013. My wonderful father: They broke the mold. Obituary here and here.
Catherine Frances McGlade (1939-2012)
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Catherine Frances (McGlade) Moran, 10 October 1939 – 22 December 2012. My beautiful mother: Obituary here and here.
John Joseph McCarthy, James McCarthy, and two unidentified
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Courtesy of Ryan McCarthy (a descendant of Eugene McCarthy and his first wife Catherine Traynor), here’s a really nice studio portrait from about 1915 (taken at Perth, Lanark Co., Ontario): Only two of the four subjects (the two in the…
John and Rosemary, in old Ottawa
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My dad with his sister Rosemary (right) and a Lahey cousin (left), in some part of old Ottawa (Sandy Hill? the Glebe? Ottawa South?). Early-to-mid 1950s here, and my dad and his sister in their late teens to early twenties.…
Edward Paul Winke (1926-2011)
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My father-in-law Edward Paul Winke. Photo taken in Detroit, Michigan in 1940.
University of Ottawa Hockey Team, 1915
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My grandfather Allan Jerome Moran played forward on the University of Ottawa’s hockey team of 1915. Love the stripey uniforms; and I guess that they were garnet and grey (from hence, apparently, the Ottawa U Gee-Gees). Their coach, the Rev.…
Jack McGlade (1900-1964)
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My maternal grandfather John Eugene McGlade, son of Arthur Joseph McGlade and Catherine Honora McCarthy. I wish I had known him, but he died before I was born. He has always been something of a presence in my life, however,…
Eleanore (Ross) Winke (1928-2011)
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My mother-in-law Theresa Eleanore Cecilia Ross. Photo taken in Windsor, Ontario, about 1930.