Library Record

Metadata

Item ID#

A2016.108.019

Title

When time was a little slower : personal recollections of growing up in Wiarton, Ontario during the 1940s and 1950s

Object Name

Biography

Author

Gilbert, Raymond

Publisher

Raymond Gilbert : McMaster Innovation Press

Published Date

Third printing 2009 (First published 2003)

Description

Raymond Gilbert writes about his family and life in Wiarton during the 1940s and 1950s.
Contents:
1. A beginning
2. The town of Wiarton
3. Life, as seen from below an adult's waist
4. Things bigger people did

Topics include: telephones, CNR railway station, police, Berford Theatre, illness, children, winters, sports, clubs and scouts, high school experiences and more.
Includes a list of Wiarton men who gave their lives during the Second World War.

Physical Description

136 p. : ill. ; 22.5 x 15 cm (ill. yellow softcover)

ISBN

978-09733152-0-2

Places

Wiarton

People