The Long Run (2015)
“In fact, he seems to have hardly mentioned it at all.
His leg, for now, seemed healed, though his ears, which had been infected after he suffered measles as a six-year-old, were a bit of a nuisance. (Robertson would always contend that the trouble “restarted in Gallipoli.”) Still he kept very active and was much involved with sports, coaching St. Bon’s track and field and hockey; judging, training, and touring with a number of local track-and-field teams; and helping found the Newfoundland ...Amateur Athletic Association (1921).
On August 27, 1930, Robertson married Gertrude Isabel Oake at St. Thomas’s Church in St. John’s. Gertrude was the daughter of Jesse Oake, a merchant, and fourteen years his junior. Their daughter, Douglass, was born in 1931.
After returning to work with his father at Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, by 1939 he had taken over the business entirely. He managed it until 1945 then he sold it, as well as his house on Bonaventure Avenue (to two of his sisters), when he, Gertrude, and Douglass emigrated to the States.MoreLess
His leg, for now, seemed healed, though his ears, which had been infected after he suffered measles as a six-year-old, were a bit of a nuisance. (Robertson would always contend that the trouble “restarted in Gallipoli.”) Still he kept very active and was much involved with sports, coaching St. Bon’s track and field and hockey; judging, training, and touring with a number of local track-and-field teams; and helping found the Newfoundland ...Amateur Athletic Association (1921).
On August 27, 1930, Robertson married Gertrude Isabel Oake at St. Thomas’s Church in St. John’s. Gertrude was the daughter of Jesse Oake, a merchant, and fourteen years his junior. Their daughter, Douglass, was born in 1931.
After returning to work with his father at Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, by 1939 he had taken over the business entirely. He managed it until 1945 then he sold it, as well as his house on Bonaventure Avenue (to two of his sisters), when he, Gertrude, and Douglass emigrated to the States.MoreLess
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