Earl Leroy Craig

Earl Craig was a farmer, lumber worker for years in New Brunswick, in 1949 he moved his family to Spencerville Ontario, where he had a dairy farm until new dairy regs. made it too difficult when he switched to Mixed vegetables, Raspberries, and Strawberries. In 1956 and until 1959, he worked as a Crane operator on the St. Lawrence Seaway, along with a lot of other farmers. In 1961, he worked as a gantry crane operator for Tony D"Angelo in Ottawa, commuting back and forth on weekends. In Sept. 1962 we moved as a family to Ottawa, but my father developed stomach ulcers. In March 1963 he was admitted to the hospital where he had surgery. On March 10, 1963, he passed away from Post Operative Shock.