For Better or For Worse - volume 4 - Softcover

Jacobson, Didrick G D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412010934 ISBN 13: 9781412010931

Verlag: Trafford Publishing, 2004

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A book of spiritual poetry based on the life experience of a Saskatchewan farmboy and his wanderings through the late 20th Century.

Biografía del autor:

Didrick Gerhard Douglas Jacobson was born at Shaunavon, Sask. Dec. 14/1930. In August 1931 the family moved to the Glenbush area, approximately thirty miles north of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. Dick was raised on a farm and did this type of work until June 1950, at which time he went to B.C. and obtained work at Taylor's Construction on the Dollarton Highway, between Lynmour and Deep Cove. He worked on a rock crusher there for three years. He then went to Colony Farm near Coquitlam and worked there for a short while. In the fall of 1953, Dick returned to farm life in Saskatchewan. In February 1955, he joined the army. He was stationed at Work Point Barracks in Victoria until November 1955, at which time he was transferred to the R.C.H.A and spent two years stationed at Deilinghoffen, Germany. He returned from Germany in December 1957. Dec. 30, 1957, Dick married Annie Chugg of Grande Prarie, Alberta. He remained in the army until June 1959, received an honorable discharge from the army and returned to Grande Prarie to farm. In the later part of November 1959, Dick and Annie purchased a farm near Elk Point, Alberta. They farmed there until June 1964 At this time Dick becamed employed at Canadian Salt, at Lindbergh, just eleven miles east of Elk Point. The Jacobsons have two children, a girl born May 14 1965 (Kathleen Anne) and a boy born August 28 1966 (Carl Peter). In August of 1967, Dick quit Canadian Salt and the family moved to Surrey B.C. Dick obtained work at a brass foundry, at 1909 Franklin Street in Vancouver. He was laid off that Fall due to the brass foundry being shut down for the winter months. Dick sold Fuller Brush products that winter and following spring the family moved to Vernon B.C. in answer to an ad for a dairy herdsman. They spent just two months at that dairy and then moved to Lumby where Dick obtained employment at a saw mill. Later on that fall of 1968, he went back into dairy work, a

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• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1412010934
• ISBN 13: 9781412010931
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124