My mother was working as a librarian when he met her. Her father came from Canada. They
were Scots who were driven out by the highland clearings [in Scotland]. He got involved in
accounting and business. He married Daisy Frances, from Canada. She came from a pretty
well‐off family. They had a house up on the North Shore in Evanston, Illinois, near
Northwestern University, before everything went to hell. He lost everything in the crash,
everything. They lost the house; he lost his job. Everything crashed. And so they moved out
to Glen Ellen, Illinois which was full of cows and things. I think her mother thought it was a
tragedy. And it was because they were used to big cars, big dogs, big lawns and living down
by the lake [Michigan]. She had a form of asthma. In those days they thought they were
weak lungs. So they would send her to Canada as a child by herself on the train across the
country to Vancouver for the summer to live with her Aunt Nina