A Place of Creation

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Telephone City, Wayne Gretzky’s home town, the place of my birth.

Thirty three years, I played, worked and walked this piece of earth.

Given - by Sir Frederick Haldimand, “ Haldimand Proclamation, ” -

to the Iroquois, six miles, each side of the Grand River, the six Nation

Reserve, from its source to its mouth ( 950,000 acres ) 904,000 eradicated,

46,000 acres left for the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, the rest confiscated.

as the Oneida, Seneca and Tuscarora are left to share this land.

Most taken by many devious means at the white man’s hand.

This is the place I grew up, the place that educated me.

The mean Streets of Brantford, forty years I seldom see.

Three thousand miles, forty two years away.

Life has been, in many ways, lived within a fray.

Home is where the soul, the spirit, the heart is, anyway.

So out here in beautiful B. C., is where I will stay.

B. J. “A” 2

April 4^th 2016