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NOTE ON THE REV. C. A. G. SPENCE & FAMILY Mr. Claude Augustus Green Spence grew up in the Thurston garish of Suffolk, England, well trained in church music as his father although blind, was both Organist for many years and also a composer of sacred music. Interested in helping the handicapped, he attended a school for the deaf in London and was soon able to conduct worship services for deaf people. While on staff at the Birmingham Deaf School he was married to Miss Hannah Harries, a talented artist of Welsh ancestry and there between 1905 five children were born: Doris, Marjorie, Rex, and Roy. Early in 1906, the family sailed for St. John, new Arriving in Canada after a harrowing storm passage, the? to Peterborough, Ontario by rail by way of Montreal aid Here the family liVed two years in a farm cottage near hie Lake while Mr. Spence assisted the owner, Francis Eir sell. They then moved to a large rented house near the Brent 3 north of Ashburnham and Mr. Spence had two seas0ns of K2 work aboard the "Bessie Butler" boat, followed by four years as a proof reader for the Peterborough Examiner. Concurrently he also served on Boards of the City Sanitation Departnent and of the Children's hid. Daughter Cecily was born in and her father was in demand for public singing engagements and church choir work. V Soon, as a layâ€"reader, he was organizing St. rlban's Anglican mission south-west of All Saints parish and was busy with homeâ€"study courses in theology which would qualify him for Holy Orders. This led to his ordination in 1913 and in the fall of that year appointment to the parish of Apsley. He and his son Roy travelled the forty miles to this north- eastern mission by wagon to reach the old, delapidated rectory and to find the population in clutches of the infuenza epidemic. Colder weather brought some improvement; hrs. Spence and the other children moved up from the city and Rev. Spence's long rSEEi ministry began. It meant extensive travel over narrow