Van Doorninck
1957. LIC and FWC’s old family home and holiday photo album.
Charles, Rudker, Mr. and Mrs. Vandoornick, (There were various surname spellings Van Doernick?) Bodwin, their sister, antefixus and LIC. Bodwin’s family lived down the street. We visited them one summer at their cottage. Godwin taught me to ride his bicycle for which I will ever be great full. The summer that we visited Bodwin’s family cabin I was impressed by his ability to catch, kill and properly mount quite a variety of insects. His father had greenhouses on his property on Lawson Road, Highland Creek, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
One summer Rucker played with his air compression BB rifle, firing it several times with no discharge before pointing it at Bodwin’s face, pulling the trigger and shooting a round between Bodwin’s eyebrows. The BB did not penetrate Bodwin’s skin or worse take out an eye but he must have lost the use of his rifle and have been somehow seriously punished. The incident was shocking to me and it was my first brush with the danger of firearms. Bodwin’s and I were fairly close in age. He was polite and generally a hard working polite lad. The family relocated, likely to eastern Ontario where I found phone numbers for both brothers but I was too shy to call and disturb them in their adult life.
Van Doorninck
1957. LIC and FWC’s old family home and holiday photo album.
Charles, Rudker, Mr. and Mrs. Vandoornick, (There were various surname spellings Van Doernick?) Bodwin, their sister, antefixus and LIC. Bodwin’s family lived down the street. We visited them one summer at their cottage. Godwin taught me to ride his bicycle for which I will ever be great full. The summer that we visited Bodwin’s family cabin I was impressed by his ability to catch, kill and properly mount quite a variety of insects. His father had greenhouses on his property on Lawson Road, Highland Creek, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
One summer Rucker played with his air compression BB rifle, firing it several times with no discharge before pointing it at Bodwin’s face, pulling the trigger and shooting a round between Bodwin’s eyebrows. The BB did not penetrate Bodwin’s skin or worse take out an eye but he must have lost the use of his rifle and have been somehow seriously punished. The incident was shocking to me and it was my first brush with the danger of firearms. Bodwin’s and I were fairly close in age. He was polite and generally a hard working polite lad. The family relocated, likely to eastern Ontario where I found phone numbers for both brothers but I was too shy to call and disturb them in their adult life.