MOM WHILE PETTING A DONKEY AT THE BOWMANVILLE ZOO IN ONTARIO - SHE IS DELIGHTED AND QUITE LOVED THE PLACE BECAUSE YOU COULD PET AND EVEN FEED SOME OF THE ANIMALS - IT WAS A SMALL PRIVATE ZOO ON A FARM EAST OF TORONTO - WE WENT THERE A COUPLE OF TIMES ON HER VISITS - YEARS LATER I TOOK THE KIDS THERE MANY TIMES - IT IS GONE NOW - GRANDPA HAD AN INTERESTING STORY FROM BACK IN HIS NAVY DAYS - HE WAS PICKED IN THE UNITED STATES TO WORK ON A PROJECT IN BOWMANVILLE, A PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMP FOR GERMAN OFFICERS - I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT WAS AT THE TIME THE U.S. WENT TO WAR OR BEFORE - HE ALSO WORKED ON RADAR STATIONS IN NEWFOUNDLAND - IT WAS ALL BY SOME HUSH-HUSH AMERICAN CONTRACTOR AND I GUESS GRANDPA WAS WELL THOUGHT OF - THE PICTURE IS UNDATED BUT WOULD BE FROM 1968 OR 1969 - A JOHN CHUCKMAN IMAGE