145 Gen: A Lifetime Full of Wires (145)

(To enlarge .....Click it) Raspberry Pi 5 with wires

(To enlarge .....Click it) Lawn Drink Holders c1960

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract
Introduction
David Cole's Ancestors
My Earliest Memories
Wires During Childhood
Notable Ancestors / Relatives / Friends
Daisy Sullivan and Tom Tampling
Important Friends, Relatives and Ancestors
Yvette nee RICHARD COLE's fan chart
Cars
Military Events / Personnel
Education / Awards
Cities Where I lived
Games and Gambline
Accidents
Health, Sickness and Death
Celebrations
My Favorite "Projects" and "Devices"
A List of Some of My Many Firsts
Neighborhood Childhood Friends
Jobs
Vacations
Occupational Projects
My Programming Languages
Future Planned Projects
Wires During Childhood
Disassembling an electrical medical device built in the 1920s
A bedtime story "One Wing Could Fly" by my Dad, Victor Charles COLE
The first home that I remember
The office where my father worked
The Great West Auto Electric
A buzzer built from a car regulator
Some of My father's childhood projects
Possible List of Advertisers on the Build-A-Home Game
Numerical Puzzles
Building my first electric game (fox, goose, bag-of-grain)
Alarm clock switch
My first Mecanno set motor
My first telephone line (with Bruce ROWE on Monk St.)
My Wife and Daughters
University
Genealogy
Hobbies, Sports
ALCAN - My first "real" full-time job
To Be Added
Breakfast for my parents
My First Ham Radio Station (VE5KS)
List of Web Sources

Introduction

GOATCHER Farmhouse interior c1946

(To enlarge .....Click it) THURMAN House interior 1995

(To enlarge .....Click it) THURMAN House exterior 1995

	in this autobiography (Article 145)
	captioned photos at www.iGalri.com
	articles at www.ePhotoCaption.com
	life sketches or stories at www.familysearch.org
	photos stored as Memories at www.familysearch.org
	in text stored in "Cole/Richard Family Tree '18" at www.ancestry.com
	in text stored in FamilyFriends tree at www.ancestry.com
        Brick Wall#1 - James GOULD Jr Details See Article 108)
	in my family tree databases
		Cole21CMar22.ged (See Source 28 & Source 29 in Article 120)
		Cole5H12.GED
        [[Brick Wall#2]] DELANEY, Patrick FSID: LC8Z-PWK Unknown mother???
	Autobiography by Daisy nee SULLIAN GOATCHER (Article 66)
                StepFather: Tom Tampling (see image immediately below)
	Autobiography by Jessica GODWIN (Article 48)
	Autobiography by Doris nee GOATCHER REDMOND NORTH (See Article 121)
	Autobiiography by David COLE - incomplete as of 2024 (See Article 145)
	Descendance: RICHARD (Article 97)
	Various Obituaries especially at www.familysearch.org
	50 Ans de Mariage par Lydie nee ARSENEAULT RICHARD (voir FamilySearch.org)
	Gen: COLE Family Genealogy (Article 33)
	Gen: Cole's Memorials (Article 72)
	Gen: WaterEnd House (Article 35)
	Gen: GOATCHER Family Reunion (Article 121)
	Northern Quebec Evangelism: Philip GOATCHER (See Article 121)
	My Genealogy Sources (Article 120)
	Graves at wwww.FindAGrave.com
	TimeLine of Life of David COLE (Source 04)

	

Daisy Sullivan and Tom Tampling

Daisy's & StepFather:Tom Tampling (Convoluted Relationship)

Important Friends, Relatives and Ancestors

1 ?         (see RICHARD, Yvette ancestry fan chart below)
  m ?   [[[former brick wall, now known to be Mary LOVEJOY ]]
    2 GOULD, James Jr
      m PENN
        3 GOULD
          m THERIAULT
            4 THERIAULT
              m VIGNEAU
                5 THERIAULT
                  m DELANEY
                    6 DELANEY
                      m RICHARD
                        7 RICHARD
                          m ARSENEAULT
                            8 RICHARD, Yvette

Yvette nee RICHARD COLE's fan chart (family tree)

RICHARD, Yvette Ancestry fan chart

David & Yvette Cole: 40th Wedding Anniversary 2006

Wires During Childhood

Disassembling an electrical medical device built in the 1920s

A bedtime story "One Wing Could Fly" by my Dad, Victor Charles COLE

My dad having a nap

The first home that I remember

honeymoon 43.jpg

1027_Ominica_MJ.jpg

The office where my father worked

The Great West Auto Electric

Great West Auto Electric

Canadian Garage and the First Baptist Church

p83
High St East
...
 26 Vacant
 28 Crescent Press
 42 Salvation Army Citadel
 48 Great West Battery & Elec Co
 60 First Baptist Church
 72 Tozer Victor
 80 Knox Presbyterian Church

• 12 Walter Scott Building (NE corner of Main St and High St.
• 24 Savoy Theatre
• 24 later Apostolic Temple (1928)
• 26 Howden Block
• 28 Crescent (or Quality) Press
• 30 Typewriter Service & Exchange
• 30 Lincoln Cafe (1928)
• 34 United Typewriter Co of Sask Ltd
• 29 Battery Service Station NB South side of street (1921)
• 35 Great West Battery Co NB South side of street (1921)
• 35 Prestolite Battery Station NB South side of street (1921)
• 65 St Johns Church (Anglican) NB South side of street (1921)
• 103 Canadian Garage NB South side of street (1921)
• 36 Bets Hairdressing Parlors
• 42 Salvation Army Citadel
• 48 first a house
• 48 later Canadian Garage Livery & Accessories
• 48 later Tuxford Garage
• 48 later Great West Battery
• 48 later Great West Battery & Electric
• 48 later Great West Auto Electric
• 48 later a Parking Garage (c1998)
• 60 First Baptist Church (c1965 acquired by GWAE)
• 66 Moose Jaw Battery & Elec (1928)
• 72 house (Gallant John P)
• 72 house (later Tozer Victor)
• 80 Central Motor Co (1922)
• 80 later Knox Presbyterian Church (1928)
• 116 Victoria School

Great West Battery Co (R P SQUIRES & A G McGILL) 48 High E
and
McGILL Alexander G of Great West Battery Co r 1127 2nd Ave N W
McGiLL Alexander W brakeman C P R h 1089 Willow
Squires Roy P of Great West Battery Co h 724 6th Ave N W

GREAT WEST BATTERY & ELECTRIC CO., LTD>
  H. PHILPOT, President; H.H. SANDERCOCK, Secretary

p 241
NANT Earl emp Gt West Battery r 1126 Alder (See image below)
NANT John meat ctr h 1126 Alder
NANT Unice hsekpr r 1126 Alder

HD: NANT Earl emp Gt West Battery r 1126 Alder

• Cole Victor C (Marion) asst mgr Great West Auto Elec h 1138 Monk
• Gates Ralph (Anne) mach Great West Auto Elec h 1177 Wolfe NE
• Golden Meredith E (Lela) slsmn Great West Auto Elec h 304 Fairford E
• Great West Auto Electric Ltd J E Nant mgr 48 High E
• Holmes Norman mech Great West Auto Elec h — Kingsway Pk
• Johnson Glenrood serv sis Great West Auto Elec r Kingsway Pk
• Keal Douglas shpr Great West Auto Elec r 153 Home E
• McAdam Robert J (Kathleen) acct Great West Auto Elec h 38 Elsom
• MacDonald John A (Verna) mech Great West Auto Elec h 912 Albert
• MacPherson Gordon A (Margaret) slsmn Great West Auto Elec h 660 Hochelaga E
• Nant J Earl (Olive) mgr Great West Auto Elec h 1136 1 Ave NW
• Passmore Lloyd (Sophia) mech Great West Auto Elec h 560 Athabasca E
• Pierce Wayne mech Great West Auto Elec r 1002 Stadacona W
• Ralph H James elk Great West Auto Elec r 175 Lillooet E
• Trieber Howard (Joyce) mech Great West Auto Elec h 1134 Grafton
• Watson Margaret steno Great West Auto Elec r 445 Home W
• Wiens Robert shpr Great West Auto Elec r 1572 Manitoba W

1937 p 50 361 (up) Main St. N Cole Chas
1937 p 50 423 Main St. N Zion United Church 
1940 p255 Paul Albert Moose Jaw Printing h 1026 Stadacona E

A buzzer built from a car regulator

1947Regulator.jpg

Some of My father's childhood projects

Build-A-Home game board

Moose Jaw Printing - Albert PAUL (Vic COLE's brother-in-law) worked there
Palm Dairies       - They probably delivered the Build-A-Home game to homes in Moose Jaw
Patterson Motors  - The PATTERSONS were life-long business friends and partners of Vic COLE and Earl NANT

(from the 1940 Issue of Hendersons Directory (Source 14)

Army and Navy Store
Palm Dairies
Dominion Fire Brick & Clay Products
Bird Construction
Bellamy Furniture
Blackwood Hardware
Moose Jaw Printing
Henderson Agencies (Insurance)
Hodge Coal Company
Ludlow Realty Co
Mackay Thomas D (Paint)
Moose Jaw Heating & Plumbing Co
North Star Oil Co
Patterson Motors
Reliance Machine Works
Royal Bank
Security Lunber
Skingle Trucking Service

Numerical Puzzles

(To enlarge .....Click it) 3 Generations of the COLE family

(To enlarge .....Click it) Gladys nee COLE PAUL

Building my first electric game (fox, goose, bag-of-grain)

A man needs to cross a deep river. A small boat is available for him to use. He is taking a fox, a goose and a bag of grain to market. So he needs to get his 3 products across the river as well. Two problems confront him. First, the boat will sink if he tries to carry more than one of his products with him. Second, he must never leave certain products alone together. If he leaves the fox alone with the goose, the fox will eat the goose. If he leaves the goose alone with the bag of grain, the goose will eat the bag of grain. How does he solve this problem?

Fox, Goose, Bag of Grain switches

Alarm clock switch

My first Mecanno set motor

Mecanno.jpg

My first telephone line (with Bruce ROWE on Monk St.)

Vic & Earl's kid's train

My wife and Daughters

L-R Yvette nee Richard COLE, Theresa COLE, Barbara COLE c1990

Honeymoon.  Other teachers filled in for her.
Honeymoon in Fort Lauderdale, FL
moved into a basement apartment on the Rue Bello in Arvida
Dave finishes Process Control of Pots Project in Arvida
Alcan paid for Dave's tuition for a M.Sc in Computer Science
returned to Saskatoon to study Dave's Masters Degree in Computer Science
In Sasktoon, our best friends were Carol Nee NANT and Fred (Smitty) SMITH
Carol NANT was the daughter of my father's best friend and business partner
In Saskatoon Yvette learned English by spending hours with Carol NANT
Dave was Computer Systems Supervisor for 6 months at UoS Computer Center
Installed rural ECG transfer / analysis system on UofS IBM 360
Our daughter Theresa was born in Saskatoon
After graduation, Dave taught University Classes in Computer Science
After a year or two, Dave accepts a job with Alcan at its Head Office in Montreal
D&Y rent a house in Brossard
D&Y buy a house in Brossard, on the South shore of Montreal
Our daughter Barbara is born at Greenfield Park in Montreal
Dave's doctor thinks he has a heart problem
FLQ attacks begin in Quebec province
D&Y rent a house close to Alcan's new 360 computer location
Alcan transfers Dave back to Arvida as Computer Services Supervisor
Alcan fires all English supervisors in Arvida replacing them with francophones
Dave lived in Montreal searching for a job anywhere
Dave accepts position of VP Communications & Research at Saskcomp in Regina
Dave resigns to start up Dynamic Computers with Bob PATTERSON
Dave partners with Tom TOWNSEND at small company startups
Dave designs and builds a computer controlled sign
Dave becomes partners with Bill LITTLE
Dave goes Bankrupt
Elphege RICHARD, Yvette's father, dies
Dave works for ?? in Regina
Theresa moves to Quebec City
Theresa & Tommy VAVOUGIOS live together in Quebec City
Dave and Yvette decide to return east for retirement
Dave accepts project manager job at NUTAT in Ottawa and moves there
Yvette joins Dave in Ottawa
Dave & Yvette buy a house in Blackburn Hamlet in Ottawa
Barbara moves to Blackburn Hamlet
NUTAT goes bankrupt
Dave accepts project manager job at Marketware in Ottawa
Marketware goes bankrupt
Lydie nee ARSENEAULT, Yvette's mother, dies
Marion nee GOATCHER COLE dies
Yvette Retires
Dave Retires
Dave & Yvette buy a condo in Gloucester
Dave & Yvette make a long 5 month trip to FL, AZ, SK
Vic COLE  (fsid:L69G-PMF) dies. Dave & Yvette are there for the funeral.
Dave & Yvette return to Blackburn Hamlet
Theresa marries Tommy VAVOUGIOS
Dave & Yvette buy a condo in Bradenton, FL
Dave & Yvette become annual snowbirds
Covid happens
today

University

Aluminum has traditionally been produced by passing an electric current through a type of fine sand called bauxite. The bauxite contains aluminum but the bauxite must first be turned into a liquid form (like lava) before it will release the aluminum. This process is very expensive and requires large amounts of electricity. Before the 1960's, a new process had been developed to release the aluminum from bauxite using less expensive acids instead of electricity. Alcan purchased the rights to this new less expensive process. Alcan was able to do this successfully for short runs using laboratory equipemnt. The next step was to build a little factory to do this in an industrial environment in a continuous process. To this end, Alcan built a "small" multi-story factory in Arvida. Their first production run worked and some aluminum dribbled out, but many issues arose, most being metal pipes that were corroded by acids. In the laboratory, small glass tubes were used, but in the full-scale environment, the glass tubes needed to be replaced by metal pipes. So the engineers and scientists replaced the corroded sections and installed better electronic control systems. Many months of work needed to be done in hopes of success. I had been hired as a summer worker to assist with this retrofitting. My summer job was completed before a second trial run was conducted. I have heard that the subsequent trials were very disappointing. Soon after, Alcan tore down the whole building at "Plant Dechenes". Hearsay says that Alcan vowed to never try it again. This multi-million dollar venture was a complete failure.

IBM-1800

Issue 1. The Time-Sharing Operating System was flawed in that it often failed (every few days) needing a restart.
    This was a major annoyance, each failure affected the growing number of computer-dependant people at Alcan 
    in Montreal. Failures of a batch system did not immediately affect many employees.

Issue 2. The in-house Time-Sharing Operating System was being implemented in controlled stages.  But each
    version introduced new bugs exacerbating Issue 1.  Worse, when a bug occurred, the systems programmer would 
    often say that the bug was fixed in the next release.  But only sometimes was this true.  There was no way to
    know whether a satisfactory fix really existed.

Issue 3. Alcan's computing needs in Montreal were growing, requiring more and more computing power.  The prime
    measure of time-sharing performance was the terminal response time which was measured in seconds.  The batch
    processing was relegated to soak up the remaining computer power, with all terminals being given priority.
    Each time a new mainframe was installed, the response time would improve, dropping to under a second.  The 
    response time was measured by how long the computer took to respond to each carriage return typed into a 
    terminal.  But during the lifetime of each mainframe, the reponse time would suffer, eventually rising to 
    2, 3 or 4 seconds.  Computer users were disappointed as the workload on the mainframe increased.  Batch 
    processing did not suffer to the same extent.  Leo LACEY needed a way to eliminate these cycles of response
    time.

Categories: 
-----------------------------------
AandC : Acquisition&Control, 
AI :    Artificial Intelligence,
Book, 
CCI :   Central Collegiate Institute, 
Game, 
Gen:    Genealogy,
Ham :   Amateur Radio, 
History, 
IT :    Information Technology, 
Misc :  Miscellaneous,
PDF :   Portable Document Format, 
Pi:     Raspberry Pi Computer,
Poem, 
Sc, 
Wio :   Wio Terminal

 Hobbies, Sports 


 3D Printing 

   I have recently received many objects made on a 3D printer.  Most people who benefit from a 3D 
   printer see either a real object or read about an object that can be built.  Sometimes, the 
   owner of a 3D printer makes an object because he/she thinks that you might want, need or will 
   use it. I recently decided that we need more designers of 3D objects, not more owners of 3D 
   printers.  Therefore as of April 2024, I will begin to learn how to do 3D object design.  It 
   seems that TinkerCAD is a junior program whereas FreeCAD seems to be a more complete program.  
   I recently repaired a kitchen drawer by replacing an out-of-production corner bracket with
   its 3D printed equivalent, shown below:




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			kitchen drawer with white 3D printed corner bracket 


 Amateur (Ham) Radio 

   It has been many many years since I operated a radio transmitter.  But I recently was successful
   in operating a distant receiver via the Internet.  I recently procured a copy of my Amateur
   Radio licence.  I plan to purchase a small transceiver that I can operate in a car.  I renewed
   my Ham license. It is now VE3IAE.  The call letters "IAE" were chosen to be very short in
   morse code.  They are "..  .-  ." !

 Artificial Intelligence

   As of April 2024, it seems that Artificial Intelligence is about to change all of our lives
   over the next year.  Each person should decide how to introduce AI into their personal life.
   I believe that we have 3 choices: 
     -go with the flow.  This is the Do Nothing option.
     -study and accept.  This is the active, be involved, option.
     -combat / attack.   This might be the "flight" approach, brought on by fear.
   My approach might change, but I believe that major forces in our lives need our close involvement.

 Automobile Mechanics

   When I was in my teens and when my children were in their teens, I felt that automobiles
   were expensive "toys".  The availability of cars was a normal expense that I could control
   by working on them myself.  Todays gasoline-powered cars are too complicated for me to work on
   but I hope that the future electric vehicles will be simpler to maintain.

 Coin Collecting

   Over the years I have accumulated a modest coin collection.  None of this collection is of any
   great value, but the collection shows the different coins from different countries.

 Duplicate Bridge (playing cards)

   My mother introduced me to the card game clled Contract Bridge or Auction Bridge.  She taught
   me the rules.  I played hours of bridge while in my first year of university, but didn't 
   seriously study the various conventions needed to play bridge well.  While raising our children
   in Regina, Sask. we played "kitchen bridge" for years with a small group of our neighbors and 
   friends.  In our retirement, Yvette and I have come to really enjoy "duplicate bridge".  We
   are not yet good players, but continue to play it regularly once or twice a week (in 2024).

 Electronic Projects

   In about 2005, I discovered the small computer named the Raspberry Pi that cost only US$45.
   I was intrigued by the fact that it could easily read and control small electronic components.
   Prior to the Raspberry Pi, I had decided that I was going to stop chasing the evolution of 
   computers, being forced to learn a new programming language every 10 years.  I had decided to
   only program in languages that populated the Internet, languages such as php and html.  But
   when the Raspberry Pi was announced, I was drawn back into the race.

 Genealogy

   Many, many years ago, as I aged, I wanted to know more about my roots, my ancestry and that of
   my wife, Yvette.  I sought out the information that could only be gleaned from our family and
   older relatives before they died.  I am very pleased to have done that.  I have documented a 
   huge amount of my findings.  I wish that I could find a younger relative with whom I could
   share what I have learned. Alas, perhaps that person might not have been born yet.  

 High School Basketball (Grade 12)

   My desire to participate in competitive sports is nil.  However, when I was president of one
   of the "houses" during my last year of high school, I felt that I would be remis if I didn't
   participate in a house sport.  I chose basketball but didn't give it enough of my time or
   energy.  I was merely "present" . . . but at least I wasn't "absent".  I did participate in
   bowling, but don't really call that a sport.

 iGalri On-Line photo gallery

   Because of my interest in genealogy, some family members gave me their photo albums.  But they
   didn't identify all the people in all the photos.  I recognized the need to attach a name to
   each face.  I created a first photo gallery on a web page called "treeleavesbycole" but it was 
   ineffective.  I worked on an improved version called igalri.com where people could select some 
   of the photos and read the caption under each.  Some people in some photos were still unknown.
   It would be a simple matter for me add the information if anyone else cared to provide it.  I 
   realized that the absence of a tool was not the problem, the problem was the lack of interest.
   Often people had thousands of photos on their cell-phones, but none with captions.  So I began
   to write articles populated with photos  with captions.  These were found to be of little
   interest to my relatives and descendants.  Finally, I discovered that the only photos that
   attracted at least a small amount of interest were the photos stored as "Memories" at 
   www.familysearch.org.  So my favorite photos ended up there.  Each face in each photo is 
   "matched" to the exact person in the world tree at familysearch.  Often, a group of people in a
   photo could be identified individually and each be linked to the details describing that person
   in the worldwide family tree. If you haven't seen any of these "Memories", please take the time
   to understand how to navigate between these photographic memoried and the detailled text 
   describing each citizen of our world.  Many citizens are missing but those dear to our hearts can
   be added by anyone.  All it takes is a little personal time devoted to this task.

 Poetry

   Members of the COLE household and ancestry enjoyed poetry, occasionally writing poetry.  One of
   the poems written by David is called "Remote Senses". It is:

REMOTE SENSES by DAVID COLE


How many of our senses five
need we project afar
that we may feel truly alive
on any remote star?

If we could just jump in a car
immobile like a trainer plane
that could convey us very far
with movies on each window pane.

The scenes to see would be controlled
whenever we turned or sped.
Each road in the world could unfold
by driving there just "in our head."

People drive these machines today
imagining roads by recall.
They have very good mem'ries, we say
If we can accept them at all.

But this immobile is so pale
against the five senses we "see."
For the car described in this tale
Needed but to run "visibly."

Consider when we watch a show
passively led through all its plot.
What if our viewpoint were not so
and other outcomes could be sought?

Their scripts are in third person now
which constrains us just to view.
Imagine if they would allow
us roles of persons one or two

And to converse with those portrayed
in this new type of show,
and we could choose the role we played
and how events would flow.

Such experience will permit
us lowly humans to transcend
the limits which we always hit
when to the authors' lines we bend.

Concepts like participation
could be included everywhere.
They are but a simple station
for such a train which takes us there.

Instead of this car fore described
imagine a new type of skin
that we can simply climb inside
and project our senses within.

This "skinny" car could coordinate
our thoughts, our senses, (even our dreams?)
Nothing would be inviolate.
Any outcome could be, it seems.

These passive skins would surely need
memories of prodigious size,
if human beings would proceed
these marv'llous skins, to realize.

Aye, There's the "rub" you may exclaim.
This skin will merely be inert.
Without its own gigantic brain:
an automated introvert.

I beg McLuhan to please note
that what this new skin is lacking
is "media"; sensors remote,
signals from which are sent packing.

We could stay here within our skin
in the safety of our wee home
while robots and sensors within
to locations afar may roam.

These robots would so aptly be
extensions of our senses.
In this way we could truly see
wonders that the world dispenses.

How many of our senses five
need we project afar
that we may feel truly alive
right here and on a star?

January 24, 1982
   edited by David@ColeCanada.com
   on 2013 Aug 28

/RemoteSenses_13H28.txt


 Programming in Python

   Over the years, I have learned (and almost completely forgotten) many programming languages.
   I have now devoted many, many hours to learning the popular programming language named Python.
   It's popularity and availablity on any current computer platform cannot be denied.  Anyone 
   wishing to know how to interact with computers in the 2020's should learn Python.  The evolving
   AI engines promise to do most of the coding work for us. All we need to learn are the concepts of 
   programming, AI will handle the syntax.  Hopefully these promises will materialize.  A second 
   language that a young person should understand is SQL (meaning System Query Language).  This 
   is the language that permits a person to create and understand DataBases.  The DataBase construct 
   is a very efficient way of storing data in both small and mammoth databases.  It is the concepts 
   pertaining to programming and data storage that today's young people must become familiar.




 Raspberry Pi Electronics Project
    "Fridge Too Hot Alarm Circuit"

  The drawing shown below is the simple electronic circuitry needed to permit a tiny $50 Raspberry Pi
  computer to sense when a refrigerator or freezer is too hot.  The Raspberry Pi computer sounds the 
  alarm by turning a red "alarm" LED on and by sending an email to the owner of the fridge.




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			hir_PiR2Z_H drawing 



 Regina Micro-Computer Club

   The author and a friend created the first Micro-Computer Association in Regina, back when almost 
   no-one owned 
   a computer.  In the whole city of Regina, they found about 10 people who had a small computer in 
   his/her house.  There were another 10 who were considering getting one.  Without an internet and 
   without any inter-computer communications, their future usefulness was in doubt.  But these
   few interested individuals showed what could be done in the 1970's.  This Club died quickly but
   it showed that some interest existed.

 Remote Controlled Android

   While we were raising our 2 daughters in Regina, Sask around 1980, the author's cousin, Keith PAUL 
   created a robot (the correct name might be an android).  So the author decided to also create a robot. 
   The result was a wireless white robot, about 5 feet tall with limp arms and motor-driven wheels 
   for locomotion.  There were two drive wheels and a third wheel for stabilization.  Each wheel had 
   5 speeds: stopped, forward slow, forward fast, backwards slow and backwards fast.  These speeds 
   permitted the robot to be stationary, to move forward or backward at two speeds.  Also, this fully 
   wireless robot could spin and spin and spin at various spinning speeds.  Two way verbal communication  
   (speaking and listening) was possible using FM radio and with a handheld telephone handset linked
   to a hidden microphone and speaker in the robot.  David also wrote a related poem named 
   "Remote Senses".  The body of the robot was a white cylinder designed
   to cover a hot water tank with the hot water opening labelled "HOT".  A silver-colored collar on
   top of the white cylinder hid the "T" of the word "HOT" leaving only the "HO" visible.  So the
   robot was named "HO" (see photo below).  The author enjoyed presenting his robot at various events.  
   His wife and daughters were also very proud.  One day, HO almost fell on a young child.  That day
   David decided to either buy insurance or donate HO to a school.  Dave chose the latter.




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			David and his Robot HO 



 Slalom Water Skiing

   The author enjoyed many summers at his parents' cottage at Buffalo Pound Lake located 15 miles 
   north of Moose Jaw.  The cottage was equipped with a power boat that could pull water skiiers. 
   David and his siblings learned how to water ski even on one (slalom) ski.  This was the only 
   sporting activity that David could say he excelled at.  However, water-skiing is hardly a sport.
   After his marriage to Yvette, with  money gifted from Dave's father, they acquired a boat and 
   both enjoyed water-skiing for many years.

 Stamp Collecting

   As a small child, the author discovered his father's old stamp album.  So the author started 
   collecting stamps, but did not become obsessed with this hobby.  One day, the author's father
   suggested sending a letter to the editor of a newspaper in Buenos Aires, Argentina requesting
   any used stamps that the newspaper had.  Soon, the author received many stamps from various
   countries, but, of course, none of them had any real value because they were all relatively 
   new.  Eventually, David inherited the stamp album that Vic had started as a child.

 Using Raspberry Pi Computers

   Ever since 2010, a new Raspberry Pi computer has been released almost annually.  
   This happened regularly except for the few years after Covid when there was a semiconductor 
   shortage.  Each year the model improved greatly, but the price was hardly ever increased.  
   The author purchased many of these models.  In 2024, David bought a Raspberry Pi 5B that 
   finally is powerful enough to serve as a home computer.  He has learned how to use the Linux 
   Operating System and the Python programming language on the Raspberry Pi.  But the most 
   interesting thing learned was how to attach to and control small electronic circuits with the 
   Raspberry Pi.  Due to this, the author's interest in electronics and computer programming 
   remained alive.  In 2023 and 2024, the author introduced his two Ottawa grandsons to the 
   world of computers. They now know how to create and debug Python programs.  Perhaps more 
   importantly, they have learned how to avail themselves of Python programs and functions 
   already written by others.

 Web Page Creation 

   It is very easy to create a simple web page.  But as more information is included and as the 
   users are invited to many more selections, a web page becomes more and more complex.  The 
   addition of many photos and improved access to information in a database add further complexity. 
   At least three coding languages are required: php, html and SQL.  Java and C++ offer more options
   but are more complex.  The cost of a site to store the web page and the "rental" payments to 
   reserve a web-page name are not extraordinary, but must be managed.  The author maintains more 
   than 5 web-pages, some big and some small.
   
 Writing Computer Programs

   During his retirement, the author has written hundreds of computer programs, many being used 
   just to learn how to control or manage a certain concept or device.  In 2024, the author has 
   finally loaded most of these programs into a repository (in Article 215 at www.ePhotoCaption.com).
   This repository greatly simplifies the retrieval of a program written years prior, waiting only 
   to be revived today.

 Writing & Publishing Articles on the Web
   The author has been very prolific in the writing of over 200 articles that have been stored on 
   the internet at www.ePhotoCaption.com .  These articles cover the whole range of the author's 
   interests.  The author now realizes that these articles were not really intended to be read by 
   strangers.  The real intent was to save each article in a placewhere the author can relatively 
   easily find it again at some future date.

   Notes written on a scrap of paper that is placed in a file folder can easily be stored in a 
   box in the basement, perhaps never to be seen again.  But being stored on the web in an article 
   makes it possible to retrieve them.  The author has equipped his list of articles with a Google-like 
   search engine called "free-find".  Using this search engine, an article written many years ago
   can be easily retrieved using "free-find" which is automatically updated, e.g. weekly.

ALCAN - My first "real" full-time job

Arvida Aluminum Plant (aerial view)

(To enlarge .....Click it) RioTinto smelter at Laterriere, QC (from Google Maps)

(To enlarge .....Click it) RioTinto at Laterriere (Street View from Google Maps)

Breakfast for my parents

Bisquick

My Ham Radio Station (VE5KS)

Web Sources

Gen: My Sources (120.html)

www

The Aluminum Smelting Process

One Wing Could Fly (tba)

TimeLine of my Life ver F

Richard 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1985 - Poem (in English)

Cinquantième Anniversaire de Mariage 1985 - Poème (en français)

Richard 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1985 - Intro.

Richard 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1985 - Poem

Richard 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1985 - Song

Vic's Old Movies (tba)

Jarvis . . Henderson . . . pirate duty

Harry Philpot (1896-1939) at FindAGrave 189742773

Henderson's Directory for Moose Jaw (searchable)

Henderson's Directory for Moose Jaw 1940(searchable)

The www.coledavid.com Webpage

iGalri.com - Select ColeXRichard

Games (154.html)

Search Harry Philpot at Gen: Cole's Memorials (72.html)

Henderson's Directory for Moose Jaw (searchable)

IT: My 6800 Computer (194.html)

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