my old man and the sea

Originally posted by Bruce MacMillan The picture was taken in the spring of 1943 on East 13th Ave in Vancouver. This is where my grandparents lived. It looks pretty scruffy by the road but back then this was almost the boonies. Dad had come over from Esquimalt on leave.

Hi Bruce,

I lived on East 12th at Knight for about a year around 1980. Didn't like the neighborhood at all. If only I'd lived there back in the 1940's I'm sure I would have loved it.

Oh, and I also lived in Esquimalt when I was a young teenager 13/14. When I got a little older, with Victoria being a city full of sailors, I had a sailor friend named Con Hogue. We hung out together a lot. I often wonder what ever became of him. I don't remember much about him but his sailor suit and his name (bad memory these days)

Don't they, or didn't they used to, have a "ship" in Victoria called the HMCS Esquimalt?

Karmen