Thomas Graham MorryTom Morry was born in Newfoundland in 1919 when it was still an independent Dominion in the British Empire. He grew up there during the Depression Years in a somewhat isolated outport community 80 km from St. John's. After completing High School, he travelled to the Eastern US to further his education during the Dirty Thirties, though, to be honest, most of that education took place in the boxing gyms, the jazz clubs, the bowling alleys and the back-room card games of Pittsburgh and South Boston. He returned to Newfoundland when war broke out, worked for the Commission of Government there until Confederation, and then became a Canadian Public Servant. Despite this questionable formal education, he rose to the highest ranks of the Canadian Public Service and lived a full life in the Nation's Capital, Ottawa. But he never forgot or lost his love for his homeland and, before he died, he penned the notes for this book, leaving it to his son and executor, Christopher J. A. Morry, to see to it that it was published after his death. Read More Read Less