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1954 (Creation)
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- Long, Norman Thomas
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- Port Hope, Municipality of
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0.02m textual records
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Norman Thomas "Tom" Long (1916-1992) was born in Port Hope to Alfred Henry Clarke Long and Edna Alice (nee Gibson) on 22 Jul 1916. He worked as an insurance agent, ticket agent, and real estate agent, during his years running the Long Brothers Insurance Agency in downtown Port Hope. He married Mary Alicia Edith "Maunie" Emeno (1923-2007), and the pair had two daughters. Tom was an avid local historian, collector, and very knowledgeable about the history of Port Hope. He died on 15 Oct 1992, and is buried at Port Hope St. John's Anglican Cemetery.
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Item is a copy of "In My Garden" by Jean Kilby Rorison, part of the Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books. Also included are 20 additional pages believed to be in Jean Kilby Rorison's hand-writing with poems. Some typed pages. Also newspaper clippings with her poems. Note included with the holding indicates the pieces were collected before 1954.