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Artist
Ted Nasmith
5+ albums
folkacousticTolkien
about
From Ted Nasmith's official website: I was born in Goderich, Ontario, Canada in the mid nineteen-fifties. My father was an electronics technician in the Royal Canadian Air Force (as then known), stationed in nearby Clinton. My first memories, though, are from a three year stay in France, in the town Longuyon near Marveille, on the German border, where our family lived while my father was stationed there. As a young child, the memories of those times made a strong impression on me as we traveled about the nearby countries during holidays. Reinforced in later years in our slide shows, certain places stand out in particular; a trip to the famous Madurodam Miniature Park in The Hague, Holland, and one to Luxembourg’s Parc Merveilleux, a fairy tale theme-park (which I recently discovered still exists!), and on a more somber note, the great war cemetery at Verdun with its imposing mausoleum. Returning to Ontario (you travelled by ocean liner mostly then), I remember very idyllic times in Goderich, and my first school days. Two years later we moved to Woodstock, a small city a half day’s drive east. My father spent months away on the DEW line in the Canadian Arctic, while my mother, having received her teaching certificate, started her career as a school teacher. My childhood involved several moves, and around age 8, we again moved, this time into an apartment in the Toronto suburb of Don Mills. My favourite passtime–besides the constant drawing of pictures–was building plastic mo
