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Note: After WWII Dave saw the need for an electrical ticker tape machine. He invented it and his brother Tommy continued to sell it to the stock brokers on Wall Street in New York City until the computers took over. Dave came to Montreal in the late 30s. His sisters Mary and Ellen were working for Gerald Birks and his wife and they needed a chauffeur so Dave was hired. After he came back from overseas in 1946 he went to work for the Bell Telephone Company and worked his way up from climbing telephone poles to working in the engineering department. Dave was smart, able to build and repair anything around the house, a good gardener and enjoyed having people in to talk with and play bridge. He sang in the church choir and was clerk of session at Roxboro United Church. He had the gift of the gab as my mother (Helen Thomson Allnutt) used to say and he was asked to deliver the sermon at the MacDonald Family Reunion in New Brunswick in 1980. He was also asked to give the toast to the bride at my wedding (Diane Allnutt Campbell). He always made sure that his sisters Mary and Sarah had enough to get by on and was very appreciative, as were his siblings, of Mary taking in their mother and looking after her. Mary told me that she felt that her brother Dave understood her. He was a sensitive caring individual.
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