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- 1985: George Victor left Okotoks while his parents, George and Elizabeth where still living there. He joined the army and went overseas. (WW1) After being wounded in 1917, he returned to Toronto Ontario and then to Vancouver British Columbia. My mother remembers him being a butcher in Vancouver. While in the butcher shop, he banged his head on a meat hook. This put pressure on his brain as he had a plate in hsi head as a result of the injury in the war. He had to quit butchering.
When helping Gradma, Reitta, paint or wall-paper, he jumped down off a chair, hurting his ankle which wouldn't heal. Gangrene set in resulting in amputation of his leg above the knee. His wife Clara, had been married previously and had a son, John.
(per Joan Patterson)
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