Spring '53. Front page. A big day was coming up for the kid. What was it?Later: We have a right answer -- he was the 1953 choice to play little St. John the Baptist in the annual parade.
St. Henry gives Montreal its little St. John the Baptist
Le Petit Journal April 5, 1953 p.76
In the neighbourhood of St. Henry, a little six-year-old lad with curly hair has been beaming with joy for days. It's all for the occasion of St. Jean Baptiste, the 1953 edition, when he will walk his peaceful sheep down Sherbrooke St. on June 24. The little boy is happy, and so is his mother. He heard the good news last week. He has been thrilled ever since.
The winner of this promenade of the "curly hair" is the young Claude Mainville of St. Zotique parish of St. Henry. He comes from a humble working-class family, his father being a foundry supervisor. But in their dark apartment in the shadow of St. Zotique's bell tower, the little family is happy.
His mother is particularly glad. It's what she wanted most since the birth of little Claude, that he would one day personify the little St. Jean Baptist... .
(Read the rest and parade follow-up .)
Le Petit Journal April 5, 1953 p.76
In the neighbourhood of St. Henry, a little six-year-old lad with curly hair has been beaming with joy for days. It's all for the occasion of St. Jean Baptiste, the 1953 edition, when he will walk his peaceful sheep down Sherbrooke St. on June 24. The little boy is happy, and so is his mother. He heard the good news last week. He has been thrilled ever since.
The winner of this promenade of the "curly hair" is the young Claude Mainville of St. Zotique parish of St. Henry. He comes from a humble working-class family, his father being a foundry supervisor. But in their dark apartment in the shadow of St. Zotique's bell tower, the little family is happy.
His mother is particularly glad. It's what she wanted most since the birth of little Claude, that he would one day personify the little St. Jean Baptist... .
(Read the rest and parade follow-up .)
Judging by the hair, might he have been chosen to play St. John the Baptist in the big parade?
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He was about to get a polo vaccination?
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