https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/ My Ancestral Family Son of John McKinley of County Antrim Ireland and his wife Mary Kerr of Lilliesleaf, Roxboroughshire, Scotland who he met in Montreal, John Kerr McKinley is named after his mother's father who died in Montreal in 1849. A very successful plumber and gasfitter in the capital city region his firm was credited with installing the first hot water boiler in Ontario. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145325411 145325411 Recorded before his death in 1925, this is John McKinley Carswell's grandfather, a minister in the free Presbyterian Church who at 29, married Sarah Elizabeth Jobson, a 17-year old Newcastle-upon-Tyne girl from his church and raised a son and daughter in England and Scotland in Rothesay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Aldernay in the Channel Islands, Edinburgh and Bournemouth. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145325410 145325410 William Carswell, Vice President of Accounts and Finance for Northern Electric was also a Mason. Grandmaster of the Province of Quebec in 1942, he was widely respected. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145325413 145325413 This photograph, taken in 1941 of John McKinley Carswell, formally a landed Canadian soldier with the first contingent of Canadians to arrive in England. He did his initial officers' training at Cambridge University followed by his Early Flying Training School ( EFTS) at RAF Hullavington and his Service Flying Training School at RAF Hatfield graduating in the summer of 1941. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145325408 145325408 As a WAAF at RAF Biggin Hill, Pat Carswell (then Pat Leonard) lived with a local family on condition that she was there on Sundays to entertain at a tea for recovering soldier who were extracted from France in 1940. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145750166 145750166 Traditional home of the Carswell family in the Parish of Mearns, Scotland. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145325407 145325407 This photograph, taken in 1939 shows the passengers and crew of the first passenger paying flight of Trans Canada Air Lines, the predecessor to Air Canada. William Carswell Vice President of Finance and Accounts for Northern Electric is in the front row. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145325409 145325409 This wedding photograph was taken in Croydon, England on the occasion of their wedding on August 27th, 1942. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145750169 145750169 Located in Scotland near Wigtown, the lands of Baldoon Farm became RAF Wigtown where John Carswell and Pat Leonard met on her first day at the station as the new cipher officer. She later commanded the 250 WAAF contingent at the station. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145750170 145750170 This was my own birthplace on November 18th, 1944 during WWII when it was operated as a Doctor's Office and birthing home. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145325412 145325412 John and Pat Carswell on the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145372510 145372510 Her natural mother died of TB in 1926 leaving her to be raised by her grandmother and as a teen by her stepmother who we knew as Gran Gran. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145372511 145372511 The Ottawa Cliffsides were the first winners of the Allen Cup, a challenge trophy, in 1909. Charles McKinley was the team goalie. This same photo appears in the files of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145372512 145372512 This article written about a building constructed by one of the construction firms of the day, discusses Carswell & Company between 1790 and 1830. They operated in the city during the busy growth period of Glasgow. This building remains as an example of the construction of the day and age of early city life when iron was first introduced. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145372513 145372513 The late Air Commodore Dr. Thomas John Graham Price CBE, KStJ, former head of the RAF Ophthalmological Medicine unit and his wife Doreen now living in retirement in Tiverton, England https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145374194 145374194 Back Row: Bill Carswell, Heather Carswell, kids of Squadron Leader James Kirkwood Carswell; Second Row: James Gordon William Carswell and Robert Anthony Carswell, sons of Flight Lieutenant John McKinley Carswell and Asst. Section Officer Pat Carswell; Carol Carswell, daughter of Lieutenant W. Donald Carswell; Front Row: Born in 1947, Lesley Edna Carswell, daughter of John McKinley Carswell. https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145754079 145754079 Jenni Carswell married Christian Dean in Victoria, B.C. on August 22nd, 2009 and they expect their first child in June, 2012 https://bobcarswell-com.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoID=145754080 145754080