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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk
Presents with Area Senior
Vernon and Wendy MacDonald
Serving You Since 1937
the form of help in acquiring either
land, housing, or education. Vernon
had become quite intrigued with the
electrical and electronic engineering of
the aircraft and decided to pursue that
By Jim Riddell field at Queens University. Still needing a
few high school credits when he returned
“I was born and raised in Cornwall, I to Cornwall in February of 1946, Vernon
was the sixth generation on my father’s attended Carleton College (later Carleton
side,” Wendy said. “We lived in the old University), from March until the end of
part of Riverdale as it was close to work for May, picking up the needed credits. It was
my dad, who was an Electrical Engineer at during this time that Vernon met his future
Domtar.” wife, Hilda Tanner, at a Saturday night
church hall dance. Hilda was from Ottawa
Vernon MacDonald signed up with and was employed at the Metropolitan Life
the Royal Canadian Air Force during head office on Wellington Street. Vernon
World War 2 with the hope of becoming returned to Cornwall, working the summer
a pilot. When he failed to meet the vision of 1946 at the Howard Smith Paper Mill,
requirements, he signed up with the ground before starting in the Electrical Sciences
crew and radar communications, and was program at Queens University. Each Photo Submitted
stationed in Lochern, Inniskillen, Northern summer he would return home, working
Ireland. When the war ended, the Canadian at the papermill in 1947, then the Cotton
Government offered compensation in
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