Pegahmagabow by Adrian Hayes

Author:Adrian Hayes [Hayes, Adrian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781926577302
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Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2009-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Some members of the Parry Island band in 1939. Isaac Rice is in the back row, second from right. In the front row (from left) are Albert J. King, Elijah Tabobondung, Willie W. King, and band constable Stephen Partridge. (David L. Thomas Collection / Wasauksing First Nation, Tray 1-48)

Isaac Rice poses with tourists during the 1930s. (David L. Thomas Collection / Wasauksing First Nation, Tray 4-28)

Pegahmagabow’s financial situation improved a little after a medical examination at the Christie Street Hospital in February 1940, when the Department of Pensions and National Health decided to adjust his pensionable disability to twenty per cent or $26 per month (minus $15 for the Returned Soldiers Insurance Policy).36 The decision came eleven days before the birth of Pegahmagabow’s youngest child, Marion Anastasia (Marie), which increased the size of the family to six children, including four-year-old Duncan Angus and six-year-old Florance May.

It is ironic that while it was war that first brought Pegahmagabow to prominence as a Canadian hero, it took another world conflict to bring him financial relief. After Canada declared war on Germany in 1939, the relatively small Canadian Industries Limited ((CIL)) plant at Nobel, north of Parry Sound, converted to the wartime production of military explosives, as it had done during the First World War. At the request of the Canadian government, it also set up a subsidiary company in the same area known as Defence Industries Limited ((DIL)) for the production of trinitrotoluol ((TNT)) and cordite. The company, which was built, operated, and managed by CIL, employed some 4,100 workers between 1940 and the spring of 1944.

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