Dot and Mac
Dorothy surprised us all –not by getting married, but by not telling anyone about it. She arrived late one Friday night in a black 1938 Buick with a handsome dark-haired man who turned out to be none other than her new husband, Ivan MacRae.
Ivan, or Mac as everyone calls him, was in the navy during the war, in the heat of battle as the metal plate in his back will attest to. After the war he worked for a steel company in Montreal until he was transferred to Hamilton.
My sister trained as a nurse and worked at the Verdun Protestant Hospital for many years. After she married Mac, they lived in Verdun until they moved to Waterdown to live with their two young children, Carol and David.
I remember going to their house in Verdun as a 20 something person for a home-cooked meal. Dorothy has always been a great cook and I relished the apple pies and chocolate cake that she turned out. While she cooked, Mac would take me for hair raising drives around the city in the 52 Chevy that replaced the ‘38 Buick. I think he knew every street and road in Verdun and Montreal and, by the way, it is true what they say about Montreal drivers.
At the farm, Mac was a dynamo of activity. Cut that hay! Let’s get it in the barn. My father did not believe in working on Sunday, except for the necessary chores. He would not participate in the Sunday haying, so we took to the fields without him. I tried to object, but could find no grounds. The horses need to rest, I said. So we borrowed a tractor and carried on. It was hot and it was dusty, but we got the hay in! And on a Sunday too.
Dorothy caught a wild one. He makes everyone alive.
Dorothy and Mac's Wedding
Dorothy and Mac were married in St. John the Divine Chapel, Verdun, on March 18, 1948. The witnesses to the wedding met with the newly weds at the Empress Restaurant in Montreal for an after wedding dinner.
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In the photograph, on the left are Betty Chambers and Tim Linester, and on the right of the photo are Margaret and Jim Connington.
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Why is that man laughing?
Dorothy married Ivan MacRae in Verdun, Quebec, and they have two children, Carol and David.
Dorothy's Family
Dorothy married Ivan MacRae in Verdun, Quebec, and they have two children, Carol and David.
