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Fading History Vol. 2Fading History Vol. 2, has 11 chapters covering a wide range of stories of historical interest. The first chapter looks at the Grand Duchess of Russia's life in Canada, including the years she lived on Camilla Road in Cooksville. When she first arrived in Canada, she settled on a farm in Campbellville and in an amazing coincidence that brought two European families of note together in a remote farming community in Canada, she sold her Campbellville farm to Wolfgang Von Richthofen, the cousin of WWI German flying ace, the Red Baron. For the sports minded, chapters include stories on Louise and David Brown, two of Canada's great tennis players. Among their many tennis feats, they were the only mother-son combination to have played in the prestigious U.S. Open. Louise and her family lived for many years in Applewood Acres, Mississauga. David went on to become a Davis Cup player for Canada. Another sporting great was Streetsville's Aubrey Pope, one of the first professional soccer players in North America and later one of Canada's top lawn bowlers. The Kennedy Kids is a chapter looking at the political life of one of Ontario's most prominent families, the Kennedy clan from Dixie (now modern day Mississauga). It also outlines how T.L. Kennedy's nieces and nephews became Canada's first child radio personalities on what was Canada's first national radio network, the C.R.B.C. Other chapters present the history of the Lakeview Golf Course; a nostalgic story about Bullet-Nosed Betty, Canada's last great steam train; the origins and development of Pearson Airport and a look at the top secret trip taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt during WWII when he travelled through Ontario en route to Manitoulin Island for a week long fishing trip with his entire WWII Cabinet. Entertainment stories take a look at the significance of Gordon Sinclair's famous radio broadcast "The Americans". Also, a fascinating story about a little church becoming a producer of a major Canadian entertainment series, The Bethesda Concert Series. Fading History Vol. 2 has a final chapter called Mississauga Gems. Nine short narratives are a mixture of interesting historical tidbits. Among these short stories readers will learn how author Mazo de la Roche narrowly escaped death at the Clarkson rail crossing: North America's very first four-leaf clover interchange located on the QEW Highway at Hurontario in Mississauga: How Cooksville became Canada's first Wine Capital: You will read about John Sandford, the designer of the NASA space shuttle. He worked in Mississauga both before and after he designed the first shuttle Enterprise. |
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