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Lauretta
in front of the family car |
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pigeons and rabbits and bees along with dogs and cats, and even a horse or two,
Anthony's family was surrounded by fields of nature and plants. Anthony's mother
had the most magnificent flower garden, it must have been 200 square feet, it
was big, and there was every flower that you could imagine. As the season
progressed, new flowers would take the place of the ones that flowered and went
into hibernation. The children grew up in a wonderful state of the all-natural,
organic foods, eating pigeons that were more delicious than the barbecued
chicken of today, and all in all had a very peaceful tranquil life.
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They lived in this house which eventually
became an historical landmark. |
For his work, Anthony's father departed many
times late at night driving to Montreal and to Ottawa on "secret missions" which
were never discussed at home and so, it soon became too difficult getting the
children to school. The children used to have to walk down their, at least a
200-foot driveway, and wait for a jitney, which in those days was the school
bus. There were mushrooms growing on the inside of the roof of the jitney - so
old and ramshackle it was. So after putting up with this sort of thing for a few
years, Anthony's dad gave up the peaceful tranquility and moved closer to town
to a place called Sillery.
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 As
Anthony's brother, Norman, related, "The house pictured here in Sillery
became not only our new home but also the center of our dad's business,
preparing his first product that we now know today as our space age herbal
tonic concept, JC Tonic®." |
Anthony's father so proudly built this new
house -- it seems that it was the second home in the Quebec City area that had a
swimming pool. Anthony's father developed underground caverns for circulation of
the water through charcoal and sand as a filtering system. It was such a
curiosity that when the family would go away for a weekend, people would come
and jump the fence, go swimming, and have a picnic in the backyard. |
