From Litir à Clann (Family Newsletter), February 1984 (Bulletin No 7),
from the Association President, R. Malcolm "Mac" Sinclair. [Click
here
for photos.]
Have you wondered about Eddie and Roselma Sinclair, the Association's
founding President and Secretary-Treasurer? I asked them to write a short
history and here it is:
Eddie and Roselma Sinclair were married in 1935 in the historic
church of St James, Sutton West, Ontario, where the bride's parents
and grandparents had been married.
They had met while attending schools in Toronto, Eddie at the University
of Toronto Schools and Roselma at Havergal College. Eddie graduated from the
University of Toronto with a Degree in Dental Surgery in 1931. During his
time there he distinguished himself in sports - track and field, swimming
and water polo being his specialities. It was many years later that Roselma
received her B.A. (Hons.) from Trent University, Peterborough.
After graduation, Eddie practised in Toronto, eventually transferring
to the Ontario Hospital service at Whitby, Ontario. When war broke out,
he enlisted in the Canadian Dental Corps and remained in military service
until hostilities ceased. He returned, briefly, to Ontario hospital service
until 1948 when the Sinclairs moved to Deep River. Eddie was given the noble
title of Senior Research Officer (nothing so plain as dentist) with Atomic
Energy of Canada.
There they stayed for twenty-six years, raising their four children:
Sandy (the Association's Vice-President); Ian (a specialist in anaesthesia
in Seattle, Washington); Rory, an economist; and Heather, a Phys.Ed.
specialist married to Bob Dwyer, Vice-Principal in Peterborough.
In Deep River, Eddie was President of the Community Association and
Roselma entered the field of municipal politics, becoming the first and only
woman Warden of Renfrew County and Acting Mayor of Deep River.
The Sinclairs retired to Norwood, Ontario in 1973 after Eddie's sight
failed. Having guided Clan Sinclair Association from a family re-union in
1960 in Cleveland, Ohio to a viable organization with a membership between
seventy-five and one hundred, in 1982 the Sinclairs turned over the offices
of President and Secretary to Mac Sinclair and his daughter, Nancy. Eddie
and Roselma remain loyal supporters of the Clan Sinclair Association of
Canada and its neighbor organization, Clan Sinclair Association U.S.A.
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