Who’s next on my North of the Border guest blog series? Today we have Vanessa Grant, author of the Time for Love series and Writing Romance!
Where does Vanessa get her inspiration? How is Canada part of that inspiration? Read on and see…
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Memories of Algonquin Park, by Vanessa Grant.
Andy and Jessie Grant – a War, a Wedding, a Family, and a Park
My grandfather, Andrew Martin Grant joined the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in World War I. He was injured by a shell explosion and left lying on the battlefield, and went on to serve in England’s 528th Forestry Battalion until the end of World War I.
He also fell in love and married Jessie Beauchamp in December, 1917 and after the war ended November 11, 1918, they decided to remain in England where Jessie had family.
Jessie’s first son, my Uncle Norman, was born in England in early 1919. A year later when she discovered she was pregnant again, Jessie and Andy decided that, with Britain’s economy in post-war economic chaos and jobs scarce, Andy should return Canada where he knew he could get work. Jessie would stay in England until the baby was born.
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