Dad's Best Memories and Recollections
by Charles J. Humber

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DAD’S BEST MEMORIES AND RECOLLECTIONS is Chazzz Humber’s epithaph casting a very long and sentimental shadow across North America and beyond. This 230-page volume is his granite monument, well-polished! It lavishly records 125 of his best memories over a life-span of nearly eighty years. The vignettes are serenaded with more than 400 illustrations. Those discovering this volume likely will find themselves wanting to record, in their own sunset years, their personal memories and recollections. And when they do, they are apt to recall what it was like to live in their fluctuating world dominated by a variety of personalities and cascading events. Mr. Humber vividly describes what it was like, in 1945, to travel in a 1930 Model A Ford from Toronto to Boston. With lively enthusiasm, he reports what it was like to live in post-World War II Boston, to cook a lobster for a former President of the United States or to sell a pair of elevator shoes to one of Hollywood’s shortest celebrities or to shine the shoes of a Derby-hatted father of a future President of the United States. It is not a remarkable achievement to reflect, to recall or to have memories that are treasured. But to tell them with literary aplomb, to recall the events that happened nearly seventy-five years ago with utmost clarity is definitely an admirable achievement and should be cherished not only by the kin who follow Mr. Humber but by those who might like to imitate what he has monumentally achieved in Dad’s Best Memories and Recollections.

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Born in St. Lambert, Quebec, 1936, Charles J. Humber graduated, 1950, from the oldest public school in North America, Boston’s Mather School. After graduating from Brampton District High School, Brampton, Ontario, 1957, Chazzz travelled to Philadelphia and graduated with a B.A. degree from Temple University, 1962. He earned his M.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1970, majoring in English Literature. He spent one full year attending the University of Alaska (Fairbanks), 1960-61, where he met his future wife, Gayle Jenkins, from La Jolla, California. Together they raised four children and have lived in the general Toronto area, off and on, since 1962. Mr. Humber’s twenty years of teaching high school English ended when he co-founded Heirloom Publishing Inc. in 1985. This all-Canadian publication house produced the seven-volume, nationally acclaimed CANADA Heirloom Series until 2001. Since his retirement, Mr. Humber published, in 2006, Family Sleuthing, a 440-page tome tracing his United Empire Loyalist roots through both his mother’s and father’s side of the family. Former Dominion President of the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada, Mr. Humber’s ninth publication is Dad’s Best Memories and Recollections.

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