When Grampa file his Declaration of Intention for Naturalization (No. 1914) to the US government, he had 7 years from December 16, 1920 to complete the application. The application shows a lot of information. It states he crossed the border from Canada to the US on June 10, 1919. I search on Ancestry.ca through all the June 1919 border crossings at Buffalo and could not find his name. (Side thought: perhaps because he went by train, those records are somewhere else.)
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John in Mattawa
Below is a map sketched by Hilda Howard, Mom’s half-sister, when I visited her in Toronto the in late 1990’s maybe.
So while she was trying to remember the layout of the Mattawa farm, she also was remembering things about Grampa.
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