Note: and a grammaphone. He ordered the parts for the grammaphone and built the housing himself. He used to like to bring home stray animals and his wife Ellen would scold him for it. He left home at 13 and worked on the railway and the ships on the great lakes. They lived at Burton ave in Oshawa and had pictures of when the 401 was built which was right beside their house. Back in the 1930s he would drive out to Glengarry to visit relatives, a cousin Margaret MacLennan, a granddaughter of 'Big Alec' MacRae and Margaret Morrison of Williamstown remembers him visiting then. This was told to me by Margaret MacLennan When he was younger he narrowly escaped a boiler exploding and was hit by schrapnel from the boiler. Before he died he suffered from dementia and would call out for his co workers to run quickly that the boiler was going to explode. This was told to me by his son in law, Nicholas Differ Note: {geni:about_me} James was a 2nd class Stationary Engineer. He worked at Williams piano company in Toronto for a time, and Duplate in Oshawa and also at the hospital in Oshawa. He was very good at woodworking and built a chessboard
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