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My Father’s Spiritual Journey
As I mentioned in my previous post, my father, David Jacob Toews, was born into a Mennonite family in Russia in 1914. Mennonites have a very strong sense of family, and maintaining their tradition is very important. As a group they…
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My Father’s Early Life
In an earlier post, I mentioned that our family moved from Uxbridge, Ontario, to the small town of Bothwell, Ontario, when I was 9 years old. But before I write that story, I need to tell you a bit more about…
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Uxbridge Recollections
It’s interesting what memories pop up from our childhood – snapshots of life that emerge in full colour from a gray cloud of time. The photo above shows what downtown Uxbridge looked like when I lived there in the 1950’s. I…
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My Father’s New Car
Memories from Uxbridge in 1955 – a green Chevrolet Bel Air, the Everly Brothers and the Williamson’s. I don’t recall much about the cars that my family owned when I was very young – except for a car seat that my parents…
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The Old House and My Father
I don’t have a lot of memories of my father. He died of a sudden illness when I was 12, but one of my favourite memories comes from the time we lived in this old house. The house is in Uxbridge,…
