Miles

Contributed by H.R.S. (Tim) Ellis

Walter Miles lived two doors beyond Senator Foster home on Rothesay Road on a property purchased from Thomas Bell. A pipe-smoking Englishman, Mr. Miles was a tea-taster employed by T.H. Estabrooks Ltd. It was his responsibility to ensure that the shipments of tea from different parts of the Far East were blended in the right proportions to give uniform taste to the product. Changes in the rainfall in the various tea-growing districts could affect the crop from year to year.

Mr. and Mrs. Miles had three children: during World War II, Sally served overseas as a Nursing Sister; Barbara served with the Canadian Women’s Army Corps; and George servers as a high-ranking officer with the Royal Canadian Navy.