Word: mcarthur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...McArthur says he didn't take the offer seriously until several months later. It was then, on the day after Christmas, that his boss--a Jewish immigrant who had fled the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia--came around to the McArthur home with gifts for the holidays...
Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in a small town on the outskirts of Vancouver, the three McArthur children did not know luxury. Their father worked as a grain inspector for the Canadian government. Their mother stayed home to raise the family...
...Between grade 12 and grade 13, one of the family members in the family that owned this place called me in and talked to me about going to university, which I hadn't thought about doing," McArthur recalls...
...came to the front door and my father came out with me and he wouldn't come in and he said, 'Has John talked to you about our conversation in August about going to university?'" McArthur recalls. "And my father said, 'The boy never talks to me about anything...
...McArthur enrolled at the University of British Columbia, where he majored in forestry and where, following the completion of his junior year, he married his eighth grade sweetheart...