Donald
Robert
(Don)
Cundall
was the
son
of
Thomas
Cundall
and
Elsie
Margaret
Daley.
Don was born
on Wednesday 10 August 1938
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The places where he lived have been identified as:
| From |
To |
Place |
Source of Information |
| 1938 |
|
Winnipeg, Canada. |
|
| 1956 |
1958 |
Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, British Columbia. |
|
| 1958 |
1960 |
Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. |
|
| 1961 |
|
Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. |
|
| 1965 |
|
USA. |
|
| 1995 |
now |
Pennsylvania, USA.
(Details suppressed). |
|
Don
was
a
person who has had many occupations - see below.
Don died
when
he
was
77
years old,
on Friday 13 May 2016.
Donald left home at 18 to join the RCAF and become a pilot. They however sent Donald off to the Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, British Columbia where upon completing two years (1956-58) Donald was sent on to the Royal Military College of Canada (Canada's Sandhurst) in Kingston, Ontario where he graduated in 1960.
During the summers, he took pilot training, sailoring and soldiering getting as far as T-33 jets. The RCAF didn't need pilots at the time, and so they released him without having to serve the three years, getting out of having to pay for sending Donald on to University to get a degree. Since the RMC was a Federal School, and degree granting was a Provincial Right, the RMC gave Donald a Diploma in Chemical Engineering and he was to go onto a civilian university to get a degree. Now, the RMC has degree granting authority, and they did give Donald a BSc., 34 years later.
Left high and dry, Donald got a job teaching at school, married Marlene, and the following year, went off to Queen's University, also in Kingston, Ontario. It was here that Cheryl was born. Before graduating, Donald took a job with Union Carbide in Montreal and learned all about plastics and polyethylene. However, they thought that Donald etal should all learn French, and there were no protestant schools, so with Robert Barry Cundall added to their family, they escaped to the USA in 1965.
Donald worked for an assortment of petroleum and plastics companies where he got involved with German firms making polyester monofilament used to weave papermaking screens. They even returned to Canada for two years to set up a company (1972-73). When he ran out of Plastics companies to work for, he got involved with pharmaceutical and biomedical research organisations building laboratories and facilities. But that line of work slowed up, and Donald has been semi-retired since 1994. Donald keeps busy with his genealogy and doing odd jobs, especially around his children's houses.
West Chester, Pennsylvania is a very Quaker town, part of William Penn's grant of 1682. It has rolling hills and is quite wooded. Donald and Marlene live about 4 miles out of town in what was and still is farmland, but the dairy cows are moving out as the land is being sold off to build houses. It is about 20 miles west of Philadelphia, 15 miles north of Delaware (where one can shop with no sales tax), 2 hours from skiing in the Pocono Mountains (little hills), 2 hours to New York City, 2 hours to the beaches in Delaware, and 2 hours to Washington DC. But 30 minutes west of West Chester is a large Pennsylvania Dutch or Amish farming district where they travel the roads in horse and buggy, farm with lots of sons and teams of horses, and live without electricity. West Chester is also in the area of the 'Brandywine Battlefield' where Generals Howe and Cornwallis whupped Washington, Wayne and Lafayette. The local Quakers were and still are anti-war and military and any that got involved in the War of Independence were shunned and their names were struck from the church and historical records. There are several Quaker Meeting Houses and schools and colleges right around West Chester, and they add to the quiet family life of the area.
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