Entry Date: Newpaper clipping
Content: Merchant Chief Acting As Guide For Blind Boy: Freddie Mcleod , the six-year-old blind boy from Fort St. John whom an escort to Vancouver was asked in the Journal Friday left fo the coast Sunday in the able care of Henry Birks, Canadian merchant prince and secretary-treasurer of Montreal Birks firm. Saturday's Journal, publishing a picture of Freddie who wanted to start school like other six-year-old boys was hardly of the press when seven or eight officers to act as guide and guardian for the trip were received by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind which is looking after Freddie. The nearest school which the boy could attend is at Vancouver. S.E. Dean Vancouver business man now in Edmonton and leaving for Vancouver Wednesday was among those offering and others included Edmonton men going to Vancouver shortly. Mr. Birks was leaving right away and his offer was accepted. So it was no trick at all getting big-hearted men to help the little blind boy.
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PDF Page Number: 43
People Mentioned: Mr Freddie McLeod
Mr Henry Birks
Places Mentioned: Fort Saint John, B.C., Ca
Vancouver, B.C., Can
Edmonton, A.B., Ca
Images from MS-0749 courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives.
Pdf Info:
Content: Merchant Chief Acting As Guide For Blind Boy: Freddie Mcleod , the six-year-old blind boy from Fort St. John whom an escort to Vancouver was asked in the Journal Friday left fo the coast Sunday in the able care of Henry Birks, Canadian merchant prince and secretary-treasurer of Montreal Birks firm. Saturday's Journal, publishing a picture of Freddie who wanted to start school like other six-year-old boys was hardly of the press when seven or eight officers to act as guide and guardian for the trip were received by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind which is looking after Freddie. The nearest school which the boy could attend is at Vancouver. S.E. Dean Vancouver business man now in Edmonton and leaving for Vancouver Wednesday was among those offering and others included Edmonton men going to Vancouver shortly. Mr. Birks was leaving right away and his offer was accepted. So it was no trick at all getting big-hearted men to help the little blind boy.
Page Number:
PDF Page Number: 43
People Mentioned: Mr Freddie McLeod
Mr Henry Birks
Places Mentioned: Fort Saint John, B.C., Ca
Vancouver, B.C., Can
Edmonton, A.B., Ca
Images from MS-0749 courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives.
Pdf Info:
The Hudsons Bay Company Fort St. Johns Daily Journal for 1942 and 1943 (Frank W. Beaton)
Journal of events for January 1942 to September 1943.
British Columbia Archives MS-0749 Box 4, File 25: Frank Beaton
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