FOURTH GENERATION

142. Dr Ronald Edward Hamilton was born on 13 May 1915 in Unity, Saskatchewan. He died on 2 Apr 1993 in Denver Colorado. Ron grew up in Unity Saskatchewan and attended the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon, He graduated with a masters degree in Chemical Engineering. He was Manager of the University Figure Skating Club. He worked for Gulf Oil in Regina after graduation. After he married mother he was assigned to the munitions works a Winnipeg Manitoba for the duration of the war (WWII). He was one of a three man team that discovered smokeless black powder, an invention he could not talk about for over 25 years. Smokeless black powder is not really smokeless but rather a very light grey which hung low on the horizon making it very difficult to spot the allied guns when they were fired. The conventional black powder made clouds of heavy black colour which rose above the guns. After the war he moved his family to Toronto and settled in Mimico while working for Maple Leaf Milling as a process engineer from 1946 until 1951. In 1951 he moved his family to the Niagara Parkway Near Boyer's Creek south of Chipawa. He worked for North American Cyanamid as a Chemical Engineer until 1954. In the summer of 1954 he moved his family to Elsah Illinois to become a professor of Chemistry at Principia College. A post he held until he graduated with a doctorate from Washington university in 1964. In 1964 he move the family to Kingston Ontario and worked for Gulton Industries in Ganonoque. In 1969 he moved to Peterborough to work for Canadian General Electric as a computer programmer and process control modeler for chemical process automation of the pulp and paper industry and later for the petroleum industry. He was retired in 1974 and moved to Ottawa where he was involved in designing and building solar efficient housing for private individuals. In 1990 he and his wife moved to their eldest daughters home in Highlands Ranch Colorado where they lived until they both passed on.

He was married to Phyllis Daisy Whittaker (daughter of Harold Whittaker and Daisy Lavinia Ida Ferguson) on 11 May 1940 in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Phyllis Daisy Whittaker was born on 1 Jul 1911 in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. She died on 6 Dec 1992 in Denver Colorado. Mom was born in Saskatoon the eldest of two girls. She grew up there and after graduation from high school went to work for British American Oil (Gulf today) in Regina. Mother was active in her church and sang as a soloist for many years. As her five children were finishing high school she attended college part time and in 1964 graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts. Mother was a painter and painted many oils over the years many scattered amongst various of her children and friends from College. After all her children had left home she took a job teaching at Sir Sanford Flemming College in Peterborough Ontario. When she retired she was head of the Secretarial Science Program at the College and had been for several years. After they retired to Ottawa they travelled extensively for several years visiting the children in their various homes in California, British Columbia, Colorado and Ontario. She was affectionately called "Grandma Whoshe" after her first Grandchild arrived on the scene. This resulted from her startled remark after being called Grandma by one of her kids, Grandma Who's She?. Her Grandchild who was just starting to talk dubbed her Grandma Whoshe.
When failing eyesight made if difficult for her and Ron to cope alone they moved to a granny flat at her daughters home in Highlands Ranch a Suburb of Denver Colorado where she spent her last years. Dr Ronald Edward Hamilton and Phyllis Daisy Whittaker had the following children:

230 i. Infant Hamilton was born before 1942.
+231 ii. Garth Allistair Hamilton.
+232 iii. Pamela Margot Hamilton.
+233 iv. Hilary Ann Hamilton.
+234 v. Dana Randal Hamilton.
+235 vi. Allison June Hamilton.