Hi, am working on a book (
http://www.rocksmills.com/ontario-years-1918-1921.html). An important person named Edwin Smith plays a role in this journal. The journal is written by the Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery. She describes Captain Smith as follows in a journal entry of Sept. 21, 1919. I am trying to get some kind of corroboration and any further information! Did this really happen? Any help much appreciated!:
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Captain Smith stayed until Wednesday and we enjoyed his visit very much.
About twenty years ago Edwin Smith was the minister in Kensington and Long River. I never met him but as the Park Corner folks were in his congregation I heard of him frequently through them. I always felt a certain unusual interest in him because it was hinted abroad that he was a writer of articles and so I felt professionally akin. He was then a young man, lately married, very handsome and clever. The first time I saw him was on the occasion of a meeting of Presbytery in Cavendish during the “church row.”
Fan Wise and I were standing in the hall porch looking at the ministers on the platform, Edwin Smith among them. “That man is too good looking to be a minister,” whispered Fan. Later on he preached in the new church on the occasion of Ewan’s induction there. He was then settled at Cardigan; after that he went out to Alberta and when the war broke out was settled in Tilsonburg, Ontario.
He had always had a hobby for sailing and wherever possible he kept a yacht. He had studied navigation and qualified as a captain. When the war broke out he offered his services to the British admiralty and was accepted. For four years he has been an officer in the British navy, commanding a flotilla of submarine chasers. galore and did such good work generally that he was personally thanked and decorated by the king." [...]
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