Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 45 continued ... The following story has been extracted from a longer article, Sam Glode: Travels of a Micmac, originally written by Ronald Caplan and published in the Cape Breton's Magazine in 1983. The article relates the stories told by Sam Glode, a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq, from the time of his birth until 1944. The author based the article on interviews with Sam Glode by Thomas H. Randall. The whole story is well worth reading. Only Sam's war experience is printed here and starts after Sam has spent a rather tough winter and spring as a lumberjack, trapper and guide. I lived like that, guiding sports in the spring, summer, and fall, trapping in the winters, till the fall of 1915. That fall I was working with a small gang at Five Mile on the road from Milton to Annapolis. We were felling hemlocks for a Milton lumberman named Lloyd. The trees were big and we worked in pairs. I worked with another Indian from Milton, named John Francis. The weather was hot and it was hard work. One day, after John and me had felled a big hemlock, we stuck our axes in the stump and sat down for a rest. We were tired of the whole job, really. We knew about the war overseas, and we knew the Canadian army was paying $1.10 a day, besides your clothes and grub. So, John said to me, "Sam, let's go to the war. It can't be no worse than this." A Mi’kmaq Tunneller's Story - Sgt Sam Glode, DCM Sgt. Sam Glode with DCM, British War medal and Victory medal.
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