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- In the 1911 census, Lionel is living in boarding house in Orillia, while George and James are listed as adopted children in the Agnew household in Rama. In the next farm the Grigg household, lists Norman as their adopted son.
from the Veteran's section of: www.ramarahistoryonline.web
CARTWRIGHT, Norman : regimental number 853377, enlisted in the 177th (Simcoe Foresters) Battalion, May 15, 1916. He was single, 17, a Labourer. Born in Rama, (Cooper Falls), in 1898, a son of Thomas Cartwright & Caroline Johnson, his parents died when he was young, in 1902, he was adopted by Mr. & Mrs. Artimus Grigg, of Rama. Norman's brother Lionel, died November 6, 1917, in Belgium, and his brother George also served in the CEF. The June 12, 1919, Orillia Times reports- Corp. Cartwright in Hospital- "Lance Corporal N. Cartwright, of Washago, is in the General Hospital where he underwent an operation last Thursday for the extraction of a piece of bullet from his left arm. Lance Corp. Cartwright enlisted in Waubaushene in May 1916, with the 177th and later transferred to the 4th Battalion. He was wounded on September 2, 1918, and invalided home some time ago."
The Ap. 5, 1926, Canada - USA border crossing records indicate Norman entered the USA at Detriot, for permanent residence. His US contact was Wilfred Ladouceur, formally of Washago.
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