A VERY COLD CASE SOME BACKGROUND To date I have written over 1000 columns in The Bancroft Times called the Times Traveller. My source is the paper’s archives. Some have credited me with an imagination more vivid than real. I don’t make it up. In 2004 I wrote about a provincial Game Warden that went […]
D. (Bud) Foxton as told to Barney Moorhouse by Warrant Officer (retired) Tiny Barnett A strapping 6’ 5”, 250 pound 17 year old, Tiny Barnett (formally Wallace, James, Allison, Scobie) and George Dixon (Bud) Foxton, both belonged to F-86 Sabre Fighter Squadron 427. Barnett was an Air Weapons Tech, Foxton a Flying Officer. 427, a.k.a. […]
THE BANCROFT RETRIEVER TRIALS As a youngster, going to the Sportsman Show in Toronto was always a highlight. It officially signaled the end of winter and aroused my anticipation of heading north for the summer. The Golden Whistle Retriever Trials were my favourite. Trainers were decked out in white – so their charges could better […]
