Memories of Skeleton Lake by Paul Temple

playing a game in the living room—We cant put a price tag on that
can we?
14 HITLER WAS RIGHT!! ??
A few years after WW2, a restaurant was opened near the Lake by a
women. I wont say exactly where, because I dont want to hurt her or
her relatives if they are still alive. It was a good restaurant, and many
of the locals patronized it until many found her husband drunk by
noon more than once. Louise , I and son Blake personally witnessed
this. He wasnt a happy drunk, but argumentative, and several times
muttered that Hitler was right. I wont tell you his name, but maybe
nephew Jim Temple, or son Blake will.—Ill give you a hint—-His
father had been a fighter ace in the German Air Force in WW1, and
was shot down by William (Billy) Bishop—Canadas most famous
air ace. He survived the crash, and some years later moved from
Germany and took advantage of the freedom in Muskoka.
I digress to tell you why rural areas like Muskoka suffered much higher
losses in WW2 than urban areas. When WW2 started for Canada in
1939, there were only about 16 million people in the whole country—
think about it— an area larger than the United States contained
only a population of about twice the size of New York City, Another
mind boggling statistic is that 110,000 Canadians were killed and
hundreds of thousands injured. (if you compare that percentage of
the population to todays United States, it would be over two million).
The rural, areas like Muskoka suffered a much higher percentage of
casualties because they joined the armed forces not only because of
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