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Great Grandmother's Brother (Mom's side of the Fam)

This Irish-Algonquin man has a proud heritage from back in the old sod when me family (Ó Conaill,  O'Connell in English) * was kicked out of County Limerick for being incorrigibles (we settled in Cork) to having had to escape from Ireland to Canada - me elders iced a Perfidious Albion cop - to intermarrying with injuns in Canada and then to have one of those descendants become an attractive actress who was not too stingy with her sexual favors but was not too keen on abortion so she had her bastid children and dropped them off at various convents throughout New England; thus me Grandmother, Alice (pleasantly insane she was) over the years kept discovering she had another sister or brother even though she died without being certain she knew how many brothers and sisters she really had.

 O, Amateur Brain Surgeon almost forgot to mention how he ended-up being born in the Piemonte Region of Vermont; well, his grandfather got sick of Canada and just legally illegally moved to Vermont (back in the day immigration was even laxer) and bought a farm about thirty years before he bought the farm.

 When you read this crummy blog and think to your own self, what the hell is wrong with this bastid?

 Well, it's me heritage, baby..






1981

Joseph Grant | Hugh MacDermid | Eugene MacDonald | Peter MacInnes | Dr. Donald MacRae | Dr. Paddy Sullivan
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Joseph Paul "Kid" Grant

Joseph Paul Grant was born in Alexandria, March 23, 1884. He was a twin brother of John Alexander Grant, and their parents were John Alexander Grant and his wife the former Janet Morgan.

Joseph Paul Grant received his elementary education in Alexandria. At this time his given names were shortened by his school boy associates to “Joe” Grant. In 1900, at age 16, Joe Grant enlisted with the Canadian British Volunteer army and fought in the South African Boer War.

Joe, following honorable discharge, returned home and proceeded to Northern Ontario and later western Canada to work on construction sites. It was during this period that he became involved in boxing, so much so that in 1908 he was middle-weight champion of Canada. He was now known throughout the country as Joe “Kid” Grant.
After retiring from the ring, Joe “Kid” Grant enlisted with the First Canadian Contingent that fought so bravely at Calais, Ypres and Eloi, France. Private Grant was reported to be killed in action in May, 1916. A few weeks later Grant, 6763, J.P., was discovered very much alive in a field dressing station. He was hospitalized in 1917 and returned home, June 12, suffering from shock and rheumatism.

Following complete recovery, Joe “Kid” Grant returned to his beloved Northern Ontario. He joined the North Bay police and later became a Game Warden serving in the Hearst, Franz, Geraldton and Oba areas.

Joseph Paul Grant died in a hospital in Hornpayne, Ontario, November 14, 1968. He was buried with full Legionary honors in his home town of Oba.

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Connell_Street,_Limerick
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