Royal Canadian Navy veteran recalls Second World War Service aboard the HMCS Iroquois
Navy had plans for young recruit who dropped out of school to follow father’s lead into the electrical trades
Reg Clayton for the Enterprise
Posted November 6, 2010
Fred Nutall, was interviewed the other day by Reg Clayton, a writer for Kenora's Enterprise Newspaper, for their Veterans' Day recognition edition. Fred is well known for having participated in a great many LOWISA regattas over the years. You can see the article as posted.
http://www.lotwenterprise.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2833611#
One detail that wasn’t mentioned in the article that I believe that you will find interesting; Fred’s grandfather (on his mother’s side), Moses Gibson, immigrated to Canada in the early 1900s. He settled in Portage La Prairie where he worked as a farmhand on a horse ranch. When he had saved enough, he sent money for his wife and 16 year old daughter (my father’s mother), so they too, could immigrate to Canada. However, Fred’s mother refused to board the ship for their April 10th, 1912 voyage; she refused to board a ship that was about to make her maiden voyage – the Titanic sailed without them. Call it divine intervention, intuition or just plain luck; the world would never have known Fred.
