Child of the Great Depression: Growing up in Downtown Toronto during the 1930s'.(Book review) From: Catholic Insight | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Tardif, Joan | COPYRIGHT 2008 Catholic Insight. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Child of the Great Depression

Growing up in Downtown Toronto during the 1930s'

WRITTEN BY George Heron

PUBLISHED BY Select Press, Toronto, 2005, Softcover, pp. 2008, $13.00 CND

In this privately-published memoir, George Heron recreates the world of his childhood. Born in 1924, Heron was five years old at the start of the Great Depression and fifteen at the beginning of World War II. During the Depression, his family scraped by on his fat...

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