Uncle Buddy

This is Uncle Buddy around 1984. He was living in Montreal in the late 1950s when he disappeared. There were rumours and wild speculations for decades afterwards. It was a mystery for nearly fifty years. Then one day I got an email from someone named Glenn Nosworthy. He had run an internet search using the combination of Nosworthy and Boliver. He found a genealogy site with my contact information. Long story short is that Bud had gone off to Australia and started another life and it turns out another small family and Glenn is his son, and our cousin.

Years later Buddy and his second family did return to Canada and he lived out his life in St. Catherine's, Ontario. So, Glenn went poking around the internet looking to find his roots and stumbled onto this huge family including a half-brother, Brent.

Don Nosworthy 1976

This is easily my favorite photograph of my grandfather. It captures so much of his personality. I did not pose him at all. He was just hamming it up on his own, playing with one of my cameras. This was taken at my mom's old house in Shawnee, Kansas in 1976.

Uncle Roy's House

Another photo from my 1993 trip to Toronto. My wife and I were staying at her sister's house which is only four houses up the hill from this one where Uncle Roy and Aunt Margaret lived for many years. In fact, exactly thirty years earlier I had spent a few nights in this house as well, up in the third floor dormer. This is at 155 Silver Birch Avenue in the Beaches district just up the hill from Queen Street and the lake. It has since been remodeled inside and parking spaces have been added as seen below in the photo from 2011.