143 on to liberate Cambrai and many other towns and villages on the Amiens front at the cost of more than 20,000 casualties. Due to his injuries and problems with his eyesight, Uncle Norway was discharged from the army as physically unfit for duty on 11 July 1919. After their marriage, my aunt and uncle first settled in Toronto, then moved east along the shoreline of Lake Ontario to picturesque Port Hope. I met Uncle Norway once at a dinner party at our house, when he and my Auntie Bea visited Vancouver in the early 1960s. Uncle Norway was over 80 years old at the time. At dinner, my sister Jane famously blurted out, “Uncle Norway, you have a big, red nose!” We were all taken aback, but Uncle Norway chuckled at the remark. I recall him as a good-
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