Oral History Interview with Wilfred Bain, December 12, 1978 Page: 2
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Bain
2I think, are interesting, and I'll tell you about much
later on. It will be interesting, I think, to know also
that Mary Bain, my wife, is here with us, and she may at
times be asked to supply information.(chuckle) that I won't
be able to remember.
Well, let me begin with your first question, Strangely
enough, I was born--not really strangely, but perhaps a
little unexpectedly--I was born in Canada. For the first ten
years of my life, I lived in Canada. I was born sixty miles
north of Ottawa on the Quebec side of the river. My father
was a Methodist minister, and, of course, as they say, he
had no continuing city, but he "sought one to come." So
we moved about every three or four or five years. When I
was four years old, we moved from Chaville, Quebec, to eastern
Ontario, which is a rather nice part of eastern Canada.
When I was ten, Father had a so-called "call" to a church
in Cattaraugus County, Cattaraugus, New York. It's an Indian
name. So I came there and was entered in the fifth grade,
and that was in 1918. Let's see, I graduated from Cattaraugus
High School in 1925.
In that fall, I entered Houghton College. Now, that's
a small liberal arts college controlled by the Wesleyan Methodist
Church and is in Allegheny County. Allegheny County is the
county right next to Cattaraugus County. These are all about
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Myers, Marceau & Bain, Wilfred C. (Wilfred Conwell), 1908-1997. Oral History Interview with Wilfred Bain, December 12, 1978, book, December 12, 1978; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1978499/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.