Have finally configured my OCR and imported this title into Microsoft Word. This sixty some page booklet was issued as a prepublication edition of seven copies, all cranked out on my ATF Offset Duplicator many decades ago. The typesetting was done with an IBM Selectric and the images created in the somewhat fuzzy black & white of that time.Two of the Torry Brothers were toy dealers, bookmen and publishers of art prints and postcard, hence their insignia (above). One of them was a haberdasher in Sydney, Nova Scotia and the fourth managed the Halifax Shipyards. Some will remember Clifford as manager of the Mahone Bay operation which built barges for the D-Day invasion of Normandy in World War II. They were an interesting bunch, and I encountered them through my first marriage to the late Anne Torey of New Glasgow.
I am going after better illustrations and will try to publish this bit of writing episodically on the web, aiming at a finasl pdf version.
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I corresponded with Clifford's son Don Torry for several years and he sent me several pictures of his dad and his immediate family. I recently saw that Don passed away in October. Don lived in Larchmont, NY and was in banking most of his life, which I guess is a somewhat natural progression for the son of an accountant. It was Don who sent me the photo of the original James Torey farm, the one mum used to go to as a child. Don was in his 70's when I met him on the internet. I miss his email letters so much, and should write to his wife and family but have not yet been able to bring myself to do it yet.
Here is some more info about Clifford that I had in my family database.
Clifford worked for a many years as the accountant for the Halifax Graving Dock Company. According to his son Don "And yes my father was deeply involved with the Halifax Graving Dock Company,which was owned by Brookfield Construction Co. the Company my father worked for.The Graving Dock Compay was expropriated by the government and my father was sent to London as Brookfield's accountant to come with a fair value. I understand he nearly went blind converting tha books from pounds,shillings and pence to dollars." There is a document on file at Dalhousie University which contains all of the correspondence pretaining to this expropriation, however to date we have not had an opportunity to go to NS to view this file. Clifford sent a copy of the cheque that the Halifax Graving Company recieved as compensation for the expropriation, to a brother, and a copy of the cheque is in my dad's book "Torry's Bookstore".
Clifford was in Halifax at the time of the Halifax explosion and recounts the events that took place immediately after the explosion, in a letter to the rest of the family
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