Sailing to Canada (my Grandfather's story) by Toodle-oo ( Alex McPherson & Julien Caine) скачать в хорошем качестве

Sailing to Canada (my Grandfather's story) by Toodle-oo ( Alex McPherson & Julien Caine)

My Grandfather, also called Alex McPherson (aka Alex Teen), had an eventful life. He was a fishing boat skipper from Hopeman, Moray who served his country during both World Wars at Scapa Flow in Orkney - home of the British naval fleet. There, he saw the surrendered German Fleet being scuttled in 1919, and was also there when a German U-boat sank the Royal Oak battleship in 1939, with over 800 lives lost. However in autumn 1919, his first wife died in the Spanish Flu epidemic, and his second wife (my grandmother) died in 1923, six weeks after giving birth to my father. On marrying a third wife several years later, they emigrated to Canada, and settled well only for the Wall St Crash of 1929 causing him to lose his job and being forced to return to Scotland. This song tells that story........ Alex McPherson 1st Oct 2023