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      The following comment accompanies the photo in the presentation: “I believe the first moving picture I saw was Charles Chaplin in One A.M. While my parents were shopping in Toronto at Eaton’s, I would sometimes go across Yonge St. to The Red Mill theatre and spend an hour watching motion …

      During the summer months George C.R. Hall worked at his uncle’s 200-acre farm, located four miles away. He rode his bicycle back and forth daily, starting at seven A.M. and finishing by six P.M. or later. “All the grain on a 200-acre farm was pitched by me onto the wagons …

      The following comment accompanies the photo in the presentation: “This job took up much of my time for the next several weeks. Threshing would require two or three days, and this was done by the threshing gang, who operated a steam engine and used wood which had to be prepared …

      "Whether its insides and churning parts were ever washed I do not know, but we licked every part clean and ate huge amounts during the evening (a modern ice cream brick would just be a few spoonfuls in comparison). About 5 A.M. we would be up to watch the steer …

      The following comment accompanies the photo in the presentation: “Once in a while during the summer holidays, a group of my friends would make homemade ice cream out of real cream and crank the apparatus until it was so thick we could turn it no more.“ George C.R. Hall.

      “I was 13 years old when WWI started, and I still recall the newspaper headlines, ‘Kaiser calls the agreement a scrap of paper,’ and I also recall Major General Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and a member for this riding, calling at our home and when the voting came …

      This comment accompanies the photo in the presentation: “I remember one afternoon we were allowed from school to see the picture, Birth of a Nation. This was not my first movie as I sometimes went to the Wonderland, which was one of the first theatres in Ontario, and charged 5 …

      1915 George C.R. Hall passed the Junior High School Entrance exam. “I remember only a few details of my years at Lindsay Collegiate Institute. Outstanding are not important, but Monday after having been home and if returning by train, a Late By Train slip signed T.A.K. gave credit for full …

      This is a copy of Dr. George C.R. Hall's Junior High School Geography entrance exam from 1915. A digital copy of this photo was provided by Marylou Hall as part of a presentation on her family.

      This is a copy of Dr. George C.R. Hall's Junior High School Entrance Exam for Writing in 1915. A digital copy of this photo was provided by Marylou Hall as part of a presentation on her family.

      Dr. George C.R. Hall had an interest in automobiles throughout his life. When he was 15 years old he rebuilt his dad’s old car using a box as a seat. A driver’s license was not necessary, and the car only traveled a few miles-- usually to a swimming hole at …

      Built 1913, originally as a two room school, but due to high attendance an extra room was added. Described as “a modern school, with new equipment and an excellent library.”