Dougall Gordon Goldwin Janes, 19101991 (aged 81 years)

Name
Dougall Gordon Goldwin /Janes/
Name
Gordon Dugall Goldwin Janes
Type of name
also known as
Birth
Education
Kelvin Grove SS #2
Death of a mother
Death of a maternal grandmother
Residence
Death of a father
Death of a brother
Cause: Cerebral Thrombosis
Residence 1
Occupation
Dougall ran a hardware store on Confederation Street, east of Charlie's grocery store when Tom was a baby. he ran it for a short period of time.
1940
Birth of a son
Residence 2
Birth of a son
Residence 3
Burial of a brother
Death of a brother
Death of a sister
Death of a brother
Residence 4
Retirement
December 1974 (aged 64 years)
Death of a brother
Death of a brother
Cause: Parkinson's Disease
Death of a sister
Cause: Cancer
Residence 5
Death of a brother
Burial of a brother
Residence 6
Occupation 1
Occupation 2
Burial of a father
Burial of a mother
Height
1.85 m
Medical
Had Alzheimers Disease
Death
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Death
Burial
Shared note

Dougall was born in Warwick Twp, the youngest of 9 children. Within a year of his birth his mother died. He was raised mostly by his sister Addie, sister Ila and his brothers. The little contact he had with his father was not a good memory. NOTE: His birth certificate says he was born Feb 13, 1910 and named Gordon Dougall Goldwin Janes. The doctor at birth was Dr. Copeland.
While he lived on the family homestead on Brickyard Line he attended Kelvin Grove School on Bethel Sideroad. Growing up he lived with Addie and her husband Bob Hawkins on the Egremont Rd. While living on the Egremont he attended the local school SS#15 and served as its custodian. Dougall also lived with with his brother Rayburne and his wife Amy above the Warwick General Store in Warwick Village and later with Ray and Amy above the grocery store at the corner of Confederation and Vidal Streets in Sarnia.
A friend from Warwick was Chub (Winston) Wilkinson. They remained lifelong friends.
Dougall never finished elementary school but became a lifelong learner and a great reader.
Unemployed in the 30s, Dougall tried many jobs. For a while he rode the rails (much like Steve Melus did). He told me about arriving in a small town in Northwestern Ontario and looking for a meal. At one home he found a woman who seemed to be especially sorry for him. After he left he saw his face in a mirror. It was completely black from the soot around the railroad.
He moved west and lived with his brother Wilbur in Winnipeg. There he worked in the Grain Exchange. Dougall lived in Transcona, Manitoba (with his brother for at least part of the time.)
Returning to Ontario he got work on the Canadian National Railroad in Sarnia where he continued until his retirement at the end of 1974. He was a foreman in the Sarnia train yard, often working on trains moving through the Canada-US tunnel to Port Huron. Dougall only had one serious injury on what was a dangerous job. Once while coupling train cars he lost a large part of his thumb. However, he often came home with cinders in his eyes from the coal fired engines. When war broke out in September 1939 Dougall's job on the railroad was considered of vital importance to the war effort. He was not eligible for service overseas.
Through his brother Charlie and Anna (Whiting) Janes, he met Marion McLachlin, a cousin of Anna. They were married on July 14, 1939. They left for a honeymoon trip to the Muskokas with a canoe on top of their car. It appears that the McLachlins were not happy with the marriage and with the fact that Marion left work as a nurse to raise a family. They did not attend the wedding.
Marion and Dougall watched the building of the new bridge to Port Huron the year they were married.
Dougall and Marion lived in an apartment on Confederation Street, above his brother Ray's grocery store, then at 562 Wellington St. for a few months before moving to 188 Stuart St. In 1958 they moved to 1046 Wellington St. In retirement they moved to Eton Court in Camlachie to be near the lake, then made a final move back to Wellington St in the Sandpiper Apartment building for seniors.
Dougall and Marion loved to travel and passed this love on to their family. They often visited family across southern Canada and most of the United States. They enjoyed camping with trailers and boating on the St. Clair River and on Lake Huron.
Dougall's hobbies included stone polishing, gardening, their euchre club and church activities.
Marion and Dougall spent many winters in Florida at Winterhaven and Lakeland.
By the 1980s Dougall had developed Alzheimers Disease, which took his life in 1991.

Family with parents
father
Janes homestead circa 1911
18621930
Birth: may be born in 1863May 20, 1862Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: November 24, 1930London Hospital, Ontario
mother
Janes homestead circa 1911
18701911
Birth: December 29, 1870Warwick, Ontario
Death: May 13, 1911Watford, Ontario
Marriage MarriageFebruary 12, 1890Baird Family Farm, Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
16 months
elder sister
1934 Janes siblings
18911968
Birth: June 11, 1891Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: February 24, 1968Warwick, Ontario
13 months
elder brother
Robert (father), Charlie, Dougall, George, Wilbur, Cecil, Grant, Ray Janes circa 1929
18921937
Birth: July 5, 1892Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: December 15, 1937Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
2 years
elder brother
Robert (father), Charlie, Dougall, George, Wilbur, Cecil, Grant, Ray Janes circa 1929
18941965
Birth: July 3, 1894Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: March 7, 1965St. Joseph's Hospital, Sarnia, Ontario
4 years
elder brother
Robert (father), Charlie, Dougall, George, Wilbur, Cecil, Grant, Ray Janes circa 1929
18981976
Birth: June 25, 1898Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: January 12, 1976Langford, British Columbia
3 years
elder sister
1934 Janes siblings
19011978
Birth: February 24, 1901Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: September 18, 1978Pinecrest Hospital, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.
19 months
elder brother
Robert (father), Charlie, Dougall, George, Wilbur, Cecil, Grant, Ray Janes circa 1929
19021978
Birth: September 14, 1902Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: February 3, 1978Parkinson's Disease; Sun City, Arizona, U.S.A.
2 years
elder brother
Robert (father), Charlie, Dougall, George, Wilbur, Cecil, Grant, Ray Janes circa 1929
19041989
Birth: August 23, 1904Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: October 12, 1989Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital, Strathroy, Ontario
2 years
elder brother
1934 Janes siblings
19061969
Birth: October 18, 1906Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario
Death: February 20, 1969Sarnia, Ontario
3 years
himself
Robert (father), Charlie, Dougall, George, Wilbur, Cecil, Grant, Ray Janes circa 1929
19101991
Birth: February 3, 1910Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada
Death: May 30, 1991Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital, Petrolia, Ontario, Canada
Family with Marion Mabel McLachlin
himself
Robert (father), Charlie, Dougall, George, Wilbur, Cecil, Grant, Ray Janes circa 1929
19101991
Birth: February 3, 1910Warwick Township, Lambton County, Ontario, Canada
Death: May 30, 1991Charlotte Eleanor Englehart Hospital, Petrolia, Ontario, Canada
wife
1973 Marion & David Janes at Eton Court, Lambton County
19151998
Birth: weighed 5 poundsMay 17, 1915born at home on farm near Alvinston, Brooke Township, Lambton County
Death: October 27, 1998Sarnia General Hospital, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
son
Tom Janes 1940-2015
19402015
Birth: November 10, 1940Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Death: October 17, 2015Bluewater Village, at home, Sarnia, Ontario
son
Paul Robert Janes
son
1973 Marion & David Janes at Eton Court, Lambton County
19572019
Birth: April 8, 1957Sarnia General Hospital, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
Death: February 21, 2019Bluewater Health Centre, Sarnia, Ontario