At the Foy family home on 40 Fulton Avenue, Toronto. This type of trouser was called “potato bags”.  It was a sign that a boy was approaching manhood when he started wearing them.

I am in the front row on the left sitting down. I am missing some baby teeth at the front and the only one in my class wearing eyeglasses. My brother Edward is in the second row from the front, fourth from the left. We were classmates since he had to start school late due to his severe asthma.

Fr. Williams, the priest who officiated, was the first priest buried at St. Augustine’s Seminary (Queen of the Clergy) Cemetery. My baptismal Godparents were my grandfather Nicholas Foy’s sister, my Great Aunt Delphine Foy and his brother, my Great Uncle Jim Foy. Neither one of them married and Uncle Jim worked for the Post Office. They had some beautiful ferns at their house and when they died we replanted them in the back yard of our house at 40 Fulton Ave.