STAYING ACTIVE BEHIND THE SCENES


I haven’t given up on this Blog for all the Faithful Followers that stayed with me for so long, although I’m not as active here as I was in the beginning. This post explains why.

What I’m posting Today is self explanatory in the covering letter to The Independent, the  News Organization. The Independent replied the next Day this way,

Richard Best (The Independent)

Jan 14, 2022, 12:08 GMT

Dear Ray
Thanks very much for your message. It’s good to know that people are so actively engaged in our democracy!Kind regards,

Richard Best

The Independent

Good Day,

6 thoughts on “STAYING ACTIVE BEHIND THE SCENES

  1. May our Heavenly Father God bless you and saturate your life and your days for the powerful and touchable teachings.

    Yours Honestly! Pastor Gabriel Onsongo Ondari

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    1. Good Day g p.
      A little known fact of Canadian History.
      For the last 7 years he was Prime Minister, from 1977 to 1984, I was in the unique position to be able to stand Face to Face with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Justin’s father, and speak or pass him a short note without any Intermediaries as he entered or left the Member’s Entrance to the House of Commons. I never met him in private.

      The RCMP questioned me at length on my attitude toward him 2 weeks before he quit the job in February 1984 and he moved from that House to the Cormier House in Montreal he bought in 1979, 2 years after I entered his life.

      In 1985, I was invited to lunch with the Pope’s Apostolic Nuncio/Ambassador to CanaDa. The Man for all Seasons and Reasons, living in the Gate House with his Wife and driving me home after the lunch, told me his Wife is a Cormier.
      I was surprised to see our Family name associated with both the Political and Religious!

      You might want to click on the ‘About’ link at the top of the article to see how I got into that position with Trudeau, and what happened at the Lunch with the Pope’s Ambassador..

      The 1st Cormier arrived from France at the Settlement of Port Royal, Nova Scotia in 1644.
      http://www.acadiansingray.com/Cormier%20chapter_one.htm

      Peace

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      1. in south Louisiana there are tons of Cormiers. I am direct descendant of Michelle Cormier who served under General Galvez during the American Revolution!

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      2. Good Day g p Have you seen this History of the 1st Cormier in North America?

        The first chapter in the history of the CORMIER family in America begins with an act of seeming irrationality that makes the rest of the story possible. In the spring of 1644, during the first year of the reign of the boy king Louis XIV, a 34-year-old charpentier de navire, his wife, and two sons, one of them still an infant, left their native city of La Rochelle, France, to seek their fortune in the New World. They set sail aboard the Le Petit Saint-Pierre for Fort Saint-Pierre on Cape Breton Island in the colony of Acadia, bound as servants to Louis Tuffet, commander of the fort.
        http://www.acadiansingray.com/Cormier%20chapter_one.htm#CHAPTER%20ONE
        Chapter One

        Thomas CORMIER, meanwhile, finally did his part in the expansion of the settlement along the Port Royal basin. At age 32, in 1668, he took a wife. She was Madeleine GIROUARD, the 14-year-old daughter of Francois GIROUARD and his wife Jeanne AUCOIN. Francois had been born in 1621 at La Chaussee, department of la Vienne, in the region of Loudun, France, and had arrived at Port Royal in c.1640. This made him only 15 years older than his new son-in-law. He had married Jeanne AUCOIN in c.1647 at Port Royal. Madeleine, born in 1654 at Port Royal, was their third child.

        Thomas and Madeleine wasted no time in starting a family of their own. In 1669, they were blessed with a daughter—the first CORMIER born in the New World—whom they named Madeleine after her mother. The following year, in 1670, their first son was born—Francois, named no doubt after his maternal grandfather
        http://www.acadiansingray.com/Cormier%20chapter_two.htm#CHAPTER%20TWO
        Chapter Two

        It was more interesting for me to find the above online with the reference to “Saint-Pierre” at the Time when I was in the position to stand Face to Face with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from Time to Time as he entered or left the Canadian House of Commons the last 7 years of his Administration.

        As a Cormier, I was surprised more than any other Canadian when Pierre Trudeau quit being Prime Minister 2 weeks after I was questioned at length by Emissaries on his behalf on my attitude toward him.
        He moved from the House of Commons to the Cormier House in Montreal I learned about after the fact.

        Searching Google for The Cormier House in Montreal has pictures.

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