West Toronto

West Toronto: Jack, as everyone called him, grew up in a working-class area of West Toronto. He was the fifth child of 11, and during the Depression there often wasnt a lot to eat at home. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. He delighted in telling stories about how he kept his older brothers from reaching across the table to relieve him of his dinner. He would eat super-fast, and if that didnt work he d resort to spitting on his food and Family man, painter, sailor, socialist. Born March 28, 1927, in London, Ont., died March 13, 2013, in Toronto of complications from surgery, aged 85. Submit a Lives Lived column (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.