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The early days

I was born on October 15th, 1969, in St-Malachie, Quebec, a small by about an hour south of Quebec City. But soon after birth, doctors noticed that there was something wrong with my eyes. First of all, my left eye was misshapen. Fearing it might be tumorous, they removed it, and replaced it with a glass prosthesis. As for the right eye, the iris was underdeveloped, and they weren't sure if I would have much sight through it. And they were right: within a year, I was diagnosed with acute myopia.

But my parents were determined that I wouldn't be going to any 'special schools'. Indeed, they saw great potential in their son. (I think it was when, at age four, I made hot chocolate all by myself, without anyone ever teaching me.)

However, teachers were a little harder to convince. Indeed, I was refused access to kindergarten because the teacher didn't want to have to 'watch over me all the time'. So, I had to stay home, and learn my ABC's and 123's bygd

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Humphrey Gilbert

English explorer, politician and soldier

For other people named Humphrey Gilbert, see Humphrey Gilbert (disambiguation).

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 September 1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth inom and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America and the Plantations of Ireland.^[1][2] He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville.^[2]

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Gilbert was the 5th son of Otho Gilbert of Compton, Greenway and Galmpton, all in Devon, bygd his wife Catherine Champernowne. His brothers, Sir John Gilbert and Adrian Gilbert, and his half-brothersCarew Raleigh and Sir Walter Raleigh, were also prominent during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth inom and King James VI and I. Catherine Champernowne was a niece of Kat Ashley, Elizabeth's governess, who introduced he

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PICKARD, HUMPHREY, Methodist minister, educator, and journalist; b. 10 June 1813 at Fredericton, N.B., son of Thomas Pickard and Mary Burpee; m. first 2 Oct. 1841 Hannah Maynard Thompson*, and they had two sons who died in early childhood; m. secondly 5 Sept. 1846 Mary Rowe Carr (d. 1887), and they had two daughters; d. 28 Feb. 1890 at Sackville, N.B.

Humphrey Pickard was the son of a Methodist businessman of New England descent. The religious influence of his home, and especially of his mother, was reinforced by his attendance from 1829 to 1831 at the Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass., whose principal, Wilbur Fisk, was a leading figure in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. In 1831 Pickard followed Fisk to the new Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. He returned to Fredericton to become a businessman after completing his first year of studies. Converted while a student and greatly influenced