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May MacDonald, Ethel Holmes, Alan Holmes, Betty Hinton, Fred Holmes, and Bob and Ed MacDonald..
7 November 1943
193 Aylmer Street, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Betty Hinton riding her first bicycle with her brother Bob.
July, 1947
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Betty Hinton sitting on the running board of her uncle's car and having a picnic with her mom.
July, 1939
River Road, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Betty remembers that she got around Peterborough by bicycle or on foot when she was growing up, the streetcars were gone in her day but they were around when her grandmother and mother were younger.

Betty's dad had a car for awhile before her parents were married but didn't have one when she was little. She remembers that her mother's 2 brothers had cars and during the war while they were overseas her family she remembers would go to Cobourg in an uncle's car on a Sunday afternoon. This was a huge outing. Nobody drove much during the war because of gas rations, Sunday afternoon was the often the only time the car came out. Betty loved outings and remembers going to the zoo and going up River Road for picnics. Lock 22 and Lock 24 were great places for picnics. Her family went there many times for picnics of egg sandwiches and salmon sandwiches.

Betty says that it was the summer after grade 9 before she even got to Ottawa. Families didn't travel much or even have the money to travel. After grade 10 her family went to Quebec City and went out west after grade 11. Her mother drove her to camp. She thinks her parents bought her uncle's car when he bought a new car. The car he gave them was a 1937 Chrysler. When her family took all of their big trips the car was already 15 years old but hadn't been driven a lot because of the gas rations in the war.

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Betty Hinton at her friend Rosyln Stevenson's cottage.
1952
Stoney Lake, Ontario, Canada

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Betty misses the old buildings that have disappeared over the years including Hooper's Pastries. She remembers Hooper's Cream Puffs and a flaky, rectangular pastry with raspberry jam in between. Those and cream puffs were favourites, she thinks her mother bought them every week. Hooper's also had two other stores, including a candy store and were an important part of childhood for many Peterborough children.

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Betty Hinton at Queen's University.
19 March 1955
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Betty Hinton and her parents Ed and May at Queen's University.
8 April 1955
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Aside from cleaning her grandparents' home once a week, Betty didn't work during high school but did have summer jobs. She worked at a lodge in Haliburton the summer after grade 12. She thinks that she relied on her father to get her jobs in the summer, a lot of her girlfriends worked at lodges and summer resorts – that was the popular summer job among her friends. She also worked at Quaker Oats for 2 summers (she worked in the office even though she had absolutely no office training) and Outboard Marine for 1 summer.

She saved the money she made at the lodge to have for spending money at university. It only cost $200 a year for tuition, and thinks she probably had $75 spending money for the year. Women looking for careers at that time were limited to teaching, nursing or business and Betty didn't want to go into nursing so teaching seemed to be the obvious choice. By the time she graduated from university in 1957 the baby boomers were starting high school and they were "literally picking people off the street to fill classrooms" in order to have enough teachers. Betty decided to train to be a high school teacher and she went to summer school for teacher training at the Ontario College of Education right after finishing university. She had taught 3 half hour classes when she walked into her first class in September.

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Betty Hinton on her graduation day at Queen's University.
18 May 1957
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Betty started teaching in Aurora and was there for 2 years. She doesn't remember if she applied in Peterborough or not. She remembers that at Queen's when they were writing their final exams everyone who was going to go into high school teaching was applying for jobs because there were so many jobs available.

When Betty and her husband Bob got married she taught in Elora, and lived in Guelph where Bob was going to Ontario Veterinary College. When Bob graduated they came back to Peterborough and Betty taught high school at Adam Scott for a year or two. In those days you could teach if you were married. After leaving Adam Scott she did some supply teaching but not for very long because she stayed home to raise their two children.

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Betty Hinton and her future husband Bob Hinton on her graduation day at Queen's University.
18 May 1957
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Betty Hinton with her new husband, Bob, on their wedding day at St. John's Anglican Church.
29 August 1959
St. John's Anglican Church, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

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Betty and her husband Bob Hinton were married in 1959. Bob also grew up in Peterborough. She met Bob in high school. Bob grew up on Homewood Avenue in the West End and she grew up in the East End, she didn't know him until high school. When Betty and Bob got married they had about 100 people at the wedding. The wedding was in August and Betty remembers that it was "beastly hot". There was no dance and the dinner was at the church in the lower hall. When they left the church they went back to her parents home where she got changed and they left from there at about 7 in the evening, very typical of weddings at the time – most of her friends did the same. Her bridesmaids wore a nice bright turquoise organza; she still has a piece of the fabric. Princess Margaret was married in organza and it was the popular material for dresses at the time, Betty's dress was also organza. She had 3 bridesmaids, a friend from her street that she grew up with, a friend from Queen's and her niece who was a junior bridesmaid. Betty and Bob had 2 children: a girl (Jane) and a boy (David.) They have a total of 6 grandchildren, with each of their children having had three children of their own.