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Doris Storms of Ottawa sent me her memories of Sandy Falls, a Northern Ontario Power generating station and colony of homes. What an incredible memory she possessed!
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âMy father, John A. Caveney, upon his return from WWI, went to Wawaitin Falls to work at the generating station there. I was born shortly after in 1918. When I became of school age, around 1925 or 1926, dad was transferred to the Sandy Falls plant as Chief Operator.
âOur school had one large room, two cloak rooms and a woodshed. One long wall was all windows and the opposite and front walls had large blackboards. In the centre of the room was a huge wood stove which the teacher had to keep stoking. On the stove top in winter, the teacher had a large pot of soup, as all except the colony children had a long way to walk to school and sometimes with very little
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