Jean Whicher (Nee Seniuk) was born on 8 Sep 1927.
She was a Secretary-Warehouse Spring 1962-September 1967 in Steep Rock Iron
Mines.
Bill started work in Steep Rock in July 1951and I arrived with out son,
Wilf, in October of that year. Living accommodations were not the greatest and
we were lucky, I guess, to live in Kaskie's garage (converted to living quarters)
for six months and moved in the spring to the west end (Alberta) and after a
couple of months wer given a house on Melville Street in Don Park. Moving into
this house was wonderful and seemed very large in comparison to what we had lived
in. in 1956 we bought our first home at 126 Maple Cresent and moved in on February
19,1960.
When I arrived in October 1951, I was really taken aback. Everyone seemed to
be wearing high top rubber boots and of course, I would never do that, but soon
found myself trying on rubber boots. Cinders formed our sidewalks and they were
not the easiest to walk on. Needless to say, I was very unhappy, and our plans
were to move, but day after day we made friends and after three months we did
not want to leave.
Bill and Jean Davis lived next door and we baby sat each others children. Our
first New Years dance was at Marks Street School where all the rubber boots
formed an honor guard in the entrance.
The friendliness in the town is something I will always cherish. Everyone was
always so quick and ready to help in time of need. There was no road out of town
so therefore very few cars. Grace Hancock was a regular taxi for us in Don Park
with little children.how exciting it was when the construction of the road to
the Lakehead begun. The excitement of the weeks was drive on the road to see
how much was accomplished in a week.
In 1954 I started working for Charlie Watt. When his Atikokan Office closed I
went to work at the mine in the Warehouse where we had a real good group-Len
Froehlich, Bill Galbraith, Flo Scott, Ruby Chumway, and I'm sure there were many
others. The years at the mine were good years.
During our years in Atikokan, Atikokan was real good to us and we still have
many good friends, who we visit, maybe not every year but every second year.
These people who stood by us when things were rough.
In 1967 I moved to Toronto with my two sons. I began working in the Legal Department
of The Toronto-Dominion Bank. After a couple of years I worked for the Associate
General Counsel of the Bank and remained in that position till June 1985. My
two sons attended Centennial College and Wilf works for Ontario Hydro and Michael
lives in Halifax and works for Dominion Helicopters and travels-Thailand, Bombay,
Singapore.
Jean Whicher (Nee Seniuk) and John Henderson Whicher had
the following children:
 Wilfred
WM Seniuk.
Michael
WT Seniuk.
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