Yeah, I saw it as a reaction too. He was the only doctor in the church-dominated pioneer community of early Ste. Agathe, and he was there without a practice. While people said he died poor, that is an assumption. His children sold off his remaining property as though they were walking away from it. They were not living here - never had, and nor were his parents by that time. My own grandfather, a devout Catholic who did well in the east, inherited his uncle's farm where he grew up in the late 1800s in Manitoba. He abandoned it for the taxes, knowing how hard people worked to have anything out there and knew someone would benefit. When '29 came he had good advice to sell before the crash, but he refused, feeling he was abandoning people when they needed him.
Great story-telling and inspiring because it actually happened. five-stars
Fascinating and terrifying that "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose!
Yeah, I saw it as a reaction too. He was the only doctor in the church-dominated pioneer community of early Ste. Agathe, and he was there without a practice. While people said he died poor, that is an assumption. His children sold off his remaining property as though they were walking away from it. They were not living here - never had, and nor were his parents by that time. My own grandfather, a devout Catholic who did well in the east, inherited his uncle's farm where he grew up in the late 1800s in Manitoba. He abandoned it for the taxes, knowing how hard people worked to have anything out there and knew someone would benefit. When '29 came he had good advice to sell before the crash, but he refused, feeling he was abandoning people when they needed him.
Values that put community before themselves.