When Gabriel Wortman was twenty months old, his parents were then living in Fitchburg Mass USA (he might have even been born there) and felt for financial reasons they would have to put their soon-to-be-born second child up for adoption. A while later they returned to Moncton New Brunswick where they raised Gabriel.
(Fitchburg was the original headquarters for Assumption Life, one of Moncton’s biggest employers.)
The other little boy, Jeff, was raised by his American adoptive parents and only re-connected to his Canadian birth parents ten years ago.
He is a carpenter by trade and several literally “uplifting” films have been made detailing his work in restoring and raising up a bell tower in the historical district of his hometown North Brookfield Mass.
They are on Youtube for all to view, just type into Youtube’s search tab these words :
Jeff Samuelson, a New Hope
another film : Jeff Samuelson, A Second Chapter
These are great, professional made, informative and uplifting films.
Americans and Canadians alike tend to think of places like New York City (where Dr Martin Henry Dawson worked) as a location where extreme gun violence is likely to happen and that by pointed contrast, Colchester County Nova Scotia (Martin Henry Dawson’s birthplace and where most of Wortman’s victims were murdered) as a place of tranquil peace.
Impossible to uphold those simple pieties now.
I am still dealing with all this, in regards to my ongoing book on Dr Dawson.
In fact, this whole story, of two boys about the same age, from the same birth parents but separated at birth and raised in two very different countries with two very different outcomes , can not help but remind me of the biblical story of Cain and his brother Abel.
The CANADIAN Cain and the AMERICAN Abel...
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