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Samuel Edison
The original glass negative of the above photograph of Thomas Alva Edison’s father required long and painstaking work to eliminate scratches and overcome deterioration so that it could be serviceable. This was undertaken and completed recently by the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Inc., and we are indebted to Norman R. Speiden, curator of the Laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison, West Orange, New Jersey for the photograph which yielded this engraving.
GENEALOGY OF THOMAS ALVA EDISON
G:eat-grcat-grandfat:er Thomas Edison was active in the American Revolution.
Great grandfather John Edison, son of Thomas, was opposed to independence from England, although probably born in Holland. He joined the United Empire Loyalists who moved to the Maritimes when the Revolution was won and in 1811 received a Crown grant of 600 acres in Upper Canada, near Vienna, Ontario.
Grandfather Samuel Edison, a Captain in the Canadian Militia, was born near Caldwell, New Jersey and is buried in Vienna.
Father Samuel Edison was born in Digby, Nova scotia. He became a supporter of the Reform Pa:ty in its political fiaht against the misuse of Crown authority by the Family Compact. Tne Refo-m Party’s fight for reszonsib'e government in British North Ame-ica cu!minated in tne Rebellion of 1837 under the leadership of Wiliam Lyon Mackenzie.
Samucl Edison, like his leader, fled to the United States when the battle was lost—although their principles later triumphed. He went to Detroit and in 1842 moved to Milan, Ohio. There his famous son was born on February 11, 1847.
place of the Hollands in it ought to be jit up with more details. That shouldn’t have to wait on non-Ottawans.
HE DEEPENING sense of Canadian
ism that grew out of the sacrifices and accomplishments of the last war is reflected in the growing bodies of literature and art of distinct national flavor. In industry and statesmanship Canada has earned respect.
It is almost inevitable that an artcraft industry such as that of motion pictures cannot remain a minor field creatively. Aside from government produc
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tion, which has won world-wide respect, there are the annual attempts, increasing in number, to produce theatrical fea
tures. There is also several million dollars worth of short subjects and trailers of various types produced annually by private comnanies.
Nations, like people, like to look back at their beginnings. Having arrived at nationhood in something of a hurry, Canada, through the eyes of its sons and daughters, is looking back. And they are pleased with what they see.
Canadians in the motion picture industry are proud of our part in its beginning.