Alfred Thomas Burton Longhurst

Memoriam, Memorial.

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A few photos taken over the years...

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As a young man in the Royal Canadian Navy...

Fred, portrait of a young sailor Fred, as a young man, unknown location Fred, with children Colleen, Cam, and Chris, 1959

Fred, Navy group portrait Fred, aboard the H.M.C.S. Quebec

Family matters...

Fred, with his father and mother visiting Fred, with son's Chris and Cam, c1960

Fred and Terry, late seventies, perhaps an anniversary Fred and Terry, children and two grandchildren, mid-eighties

Sporting life...

Fred, on a Navy hockey team

Fred, playing squash in the 80's. Fred, a golfer during six decades

Fred, at work at Northern Electric / Nortel...

Fred, working as a cable former in the 60's

After retiring from the Canadian Navy in 1962 (he had a few months of leave remaining and took them at this time), Alfred came home to Ontario to look for work here. He took some odd jobs to earn pocket money while looking around. He stayed at a rooming house in Brampton and often ate at a restaurant named Perk's, on Queen Street. He applied at CN Railways, where his brother and father worked, but did not get a job there due to significant hearing loss (high-pitched sounds, which made hearing birds and smoke detectors impossible, and understanding multi-person conversations difficult). The hearing loss was directly attributed to working with the booming guns aboard ship.

Alfred knew of Northern Telecom from having an uncle ("Don", or Randall) who worked at Northern in Belleville. He applied, and got a job there. He worked first in the shop as a cable former. He later moved into the office and worked as an expediter. His work would sometimes take him to other Northern Telecom plants, like the one in Montreal. As an expediter, he was on call to provide urgently-needed circuit packs to installers and repair crews arond the world. Alfred retired from Northern in 1990, after 27 years there.

Fred, with a group of fellow Nortel employees

(If I have understood everyone's directions) here are the names of some of these people. Let me know if I should make corrections.

Back row, left to right: Dave Champagne, Leo Carrier, may be George Gunn, Ken Dodd, _____ , _____ , _____ .

Middle row: _____ , Ken Allen, _____, Alfred Longhurst, Fred Buchanan, _____ , _____ , Ron Cote.

Front row: _____, _____ , _____ , _____ , may be Sandra Aldrit , _____ , _____ .

Fred, with another group of fellow Nortel employees

Back row, left to right: Earl Sills, Alfred Longhurst, Terry Jones, may be Carl Todd.

Front row: Jim Elliott , _____ , _____ , _____ , _____ .

Feel free to contact me if you know any of the unnamed people in these pictures.

cam longhurst at yahoo dot ca