Dad’s grandfather, Vernon Reid Davies, pictured below. Now I know where Dad’s gorgeous blue eyes came from! To my knowledge, this is the only close-up picture we have of him in our family. Born in 1897, Vernon grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba.
Dad’s most significant memory of his grandfather was that he would bring cashews in a can to him as a gift. His son Delmar (Dad’s Dad) continued the tradition, gifting our family cans of Planters peanuts and cashews in the 80s and 90s for Christmas with gift tags on the outside, providing hints to what’s inside by with Grandpa’s capital letters in coloured marker “YUM-YUM” (in case the short cylindrical shape of the gift and dulled rattle inside when shaken wasn’t clue enough!).