Part of the Union

Having heeded the Met Office warnings to limit travel today, we only left the house twice - once to go to the gym and once for a hospital appointment.
As it happened, we only got hit by the very edge of Storm Eunice. Most of the day has been dry and calm with wind and rain only arriving late afternoon. I’m pleased to report that the fence has just about survived, mainly due to the preventative wedging that took place yesterday.
All of which is a roundabout way of explaining why todays blip had to come from inside the house. Mrs C’s grandfather went to Canada as a young man, where he had a varied career before returning to the U.K. after WW1. The picture is of the certificate presented to him when he was admitted to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Union No.2 as a bricklayer. Strangely, although we know the date - 11th July - we do not know the year as it has been left blank. All we can ascertain is that it is between 1910 and 1916 (when he went to the Western Front with the Canadian Expeditionary Force) We found the certificate - not in a terribly good condition - whilst clearing the in-laws house in 2017 and had it reframed so it could be properly displayed.
A bit of digging online seems to indicate that the Moose Jaw Union is still in existence so we are going to try sending them an email to see if they can fill in the gap. And one day, when this pandemic is well behind us, we want to go to Canada and follow in the footsteps of Joseph Cummins, tracing his journey from a small village outside Chester to the undeveloped wilderness of Canada, and the part he played in clearing it.