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Yet, Ernie
Circa 1930-1940
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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For a brief period, Ernie put his old ranching experience to work as a plowman in Steveston, then became a taxi dispatcher, but even in his sixties he still remembered the time when he was a cowboy on a Cariboo ranch. He would go up to the attic and get an old bull whip that he had hand-braided himself, take it out into his back yard on East Pender Street, and give it a good crack. The sound would echo through the neighbourhood like a gunshot, and Ernie would say with a grin "Just want to see if I could still do it".

He was killed in Vancouver in 1966 by a juvenile delinquent.

Source: Wasserman, Jack. "Vancouver Sun", April 1966.