Jeffrey Craig Canada^[1]

1955 -  (65 years)

• Name	Jeffrey Craig Canada  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Born	7 Mar 1955	Citizens Hospital, Talladega, Alabama   [3, 4, 5, 7]
  	born 8:30 am
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	L621-6Z4
  Status	Never Married
  Residence	Abt 1958	Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama   [1]
  	an apartment
  	The apartment was downtown.   We lived on the ground floor.  There was an apartment under ours.  My mother paid the german lady that lived there with her daughter to watch me occasionally.
  		Canada → Jeff Circa 1958
  Residence	Abt 1955-1958	Talladega, Talladega, Alabama   [1]
  	Coffee Street
  	Mother tells me they lived on Coffee Street in Talladega when I was born.
  		Canada → Jeff Circa 1955
  Medical	Abt 1962	Weaver, Calhoun, Alabama   [1]
  	a cut
  	The driveway to our house was very steep, descending from the road. I must have been about 6-7 years old when I got a pair of skates and was skating in the driveway and garage, where the boat was.  We had a ski-boat, and I often think of it when I hear Alan Jackson's song about the boat. My parents went skiing and it was assumed I would learn one day.  And I had driven the boat a little.  But when I was skating I fell and cut my arm on the propellor, requiring several stitches.  That was the end of the boat. I assume this was my mother's doing. I still have a faint scar on the inside of my left elbow 3-4 inches long.  It took  Dr. McAnally (our family doctor) maybe a dozen stiches to sew up the gash.
  Education	1961-1964	Weaver, Calhoun, Alabama   [1]
  	Weaver Elementary
  Education	1964-1967	Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama   [1]
  	Woodstock Elementary
  		Canada → Jeff Circa 1965
  Education	1967-1969	Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama   [1]
  	Johnston Jr. High
  	In Junior High I was forced to choose either band or gym.  I choose band and was given the clarinet to learn.  I wanted trumpet.
  Residence	Abt 1959-1969	Weaver, Calhoun, Alabama   [1]
  	Oakdale Circle
  	We moved to Oakdale circle at least a year before I began grammar school.  We lived there until I finished 3rd grade. It was a nice house, with larger rooms than our subsequent house in Lenlock.  Next door lived a married couple, both Colonels in the Army.  They had put 32 inches of topsoil on their yard, and spent a lot of time gardening.  The Colonel's hobby was tea roses, and they had beds of them.  Their driveway was lined with pansies.  They had identical oldsmobile 98s.  Since the colonel's name was Camille, they had camillias.  And several irritating, yapping chihuahuas. While the colonels were good friends of my parents, at least of my mother (I don't think they thought much of my father), and good friends to me and I spent a lot of time with them (and learned something about gardening), the other neighbors were a problem, particularly for me. A neighbor's dog killed more than one litter of kittens from my cat, and ran over more than one cat.  They took my bicycle and then put it in the ditch in front of our house after it had rusted;  a shiny red & chrome one I got for Christmas.  One of the neighbor children coaxed me into letting him tie me to a tree (to play cowboys and indians) and then left me there.  I had to scream for half an hour to get another neighbor to untie me.
  Medical	Abt 1972	Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama   [8]
  	removal of a 2nd set of wisdom teeth
  	Yes, as I recall you had to have in hospital surgery to remove the extra set of molars.  At the time the surgery was done you had a fever and I did not know that.  I was very angry when the hospital staff told me that you were sick and that they did the surgery knowing that. It seems that is when we knew that you had hepatitis  I remember going to Sewanee and bringing you home.  We had to get vacinations so that we could take care of you without contracting hepatitis.
  Education	1969-1973	Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama   [1]
  	Anniston High School
  	'69 was the last year classes were held in the old high-school off Quintard, before the new building on Woodstock opened. In 1969 race riots rocked the town, and most of it was about school integration and busing, and most of the 'activity' was in the school.  The high-school.  My freshman year. There was about a week that there were only two or three other students in a class other than myself.  Bombs in lockers.  Melees.  My father was full-time national guard, quartermaster of the local unit. I had an editorial published about the Confederate Flag, defending it as a symbol of a glorious past. Of all the great southern writers and great southern literature, I believe Harper Lee captured the South I grew up in best in To Kill A Mockingbird.
  		Canada → Jeff Circa 1971
  Education	1973	Sewanee, Franklin, Tennessee
  	The University of The South
  		Sewanee - the Quad
  Residence	1964-1973	Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama   [1]
  	Lenlock
  	We lived in a small brick house (smaller than the one in Weaver) on the corner near the highway.  There was an old farm house across the street when we moved there, an impressive one-story affair but not a mansion. It occurred to me the other day that we lived next door to a colonel the entire time I was growing up.  In Weaver, we lived next door to the Swigerts, a married couple who were both colonels.  Camille Swigert told me she was the 2nd or 3rd female colonel in the United States military. In Lenlock, the Gillums lived across the street.  Colonel Gillum was high up in the administration of Fort McClellon.  He may have been in charge of the WAC training school. Our family doctor was Dr. McAnally, who also lived in Lenlock, about a block from us.  His son was Mac McAnally, the country singer.  Mother tells me Dr. McAnally's wife bought our house and lived in it until she died.
  Occupation	Abt 1974	Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama   [1]
  	Bartender at T.P. Crockmyer's
  Residence	1974	Dallas, Dallas, Texas
  	Oaklawn
  Residence	1975	Houston, Harris, Texas
  	Turtle Creek
  Education	1976	Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
  	Birmingham Southern College
  Occupation	1978-1980	New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana   [1]
  	bartender, doorman, and busboy at Pat O'Briens, The Decator House, The Louisiana Purchase, and Tiger's
  	He also worked as a busboy at Arnaud's and doorman at Pat O'Briens.  All of these were in The French Quarter.  The Louisiana Purchase and Tiger's were gay bars on Burgundy.
  History	1982  [1]
  	the first AIDS cases are noticed in San Francisco
  	Panic and fear spread rapidly in San Francisco as thousands die.
  Occupation	1982	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  	Bookkeeper for Iriving Fineman, P.A.
  	In this job I first used a personal computer, a Commodore PET.  I was one of the first people to do so.  I used an accounting program to keep the books and prepare payroll for several businesses in San Francisco.  Among these were The Norse Cove in The Castro and Mainline Gifts.  Herb Cane, a popular columnist in the major daily newspaper, was a client.
  Occupation	1980-1982	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  	Cash Clerk for the Pacific Security Depository Trust Company
  Occupation	1982-1984	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [2]
  	Bookkeeper/programmer for the Financial Planning Department of Sohio Construction Company
  	I prepared a 4-phase budget and reconcilation for the North Slope construction in Alasaka related to the oil pipeline.  I programmed Lotus spreadsheets and DBase databases to input costs and budgets, allocate costs, report on "as funded" and "as managed" performance, and generate forecasts and prepare budgets.
  Medical	Abt 1986	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  	toxic Prozac shock
  	Having been plagued by depression all my life I feared I was going to lose my position at Price Waterhouse because of it and after having been "clean and sober" for 7 years in A.A. decided to take pills.  I had been recommended for the clinical trials of Prozac.  I ended up being one of the victims that dropped out of the studies.  I ended up losing my job, and everything.
  Occupation	1984-1986	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  	Analyst for Price Waterhouse
  		Canada → Craig - office 555 California, San Francisco, California
  Residence	Abt 1983-1987	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [9]
  	100 Portola
  		Canada → Craig 100 Portola Drive, San Francisco, California
  		Canada → Craig - Twin Peaks, with mother 100 Portola, San Francisco, California
  		Canada → Craig - Twin Peaks, view 100 Portola, San Francisco, California
  		Canada → Craig - Twin Peaks, with telescope 100 Portola, San Francisco, California
  		Canada → Craig - Twin Peaks, with truck Twin Peaks, San Francisco, California
  Occupation	1987-1988	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  	Word Processor for William Mercer
  History	1989  [1]
  	a major quake, measuring 6.9-7.1 on the Ricther Scale devastates San Francisco
  	I was living in Central Towers, on the top floor corner of a ten story apartment tower in The Tenderloin.  The quake was in the afternoon, as the whole world was watching The World Series at Candlestick park. The quake woke me up.  As the town shook I could hear the unearthly sound of thousands of voices screaming above everything else.  When it was over, realizing the power was out and not likely to be back on soon, I took a shower while I still had hot water.  Then I went down 10 flights of stairs, got on a bus and rode to the taxi yard where I got my taxi and drove people home all night.
  Occupation	1989	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [1]
  	Taxi Driver for Yellow Cab
  Residence	1989	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [10]
  	Central Towers at 350 Turk Street
  Medical	Abt 1995	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [2]
  	became a medical marijuana patient
  	See:  The San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club – Examiner.com | 11 Jul 2009
  		Canada, Craig → High Times This photo was taken in 1996 at the Proposition 215 Vigil in front of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Craig Canada is the person facing sideways, front and center, in the green jacket.
  Residence	1994-1996	San Francisco, San Francisco, California   [10]
  	a Single Room Occupancy tenement at 118 Taylor
  Residence	1980-1998	San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  Residence	1999	Guerneville, Sonoma, California   [1]
  Residence	1999-2001	Palm Springs, Riverside, California   [1]
  Residence	2001-2002	Desert Hot Springs, Riverside, California   [1]
  Residence	2002-2004	Morongo Valley, San Bernardino, California   [1]
  	11307 Hess Boulevard, #2
  	See: palmspringsbum – Morongo Valley Timeline
  		Canada, Craig → return of property
  		Canada, Craig → return of property
  		Canada, Craig → return of property
  		Canada, Craig → return of property
  		Canada, Craig → return of property
  Biographical	Aug 2007  [1]
  	was featured in a story in Street Spirit
  Residence	10 Mar 2005-10 Mar 2008	Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California   [1]
  	homeless
  	Click to hear an interview recorded 23 Feb 06 in Santa Cruz. See my blog for a journal of this.
  Residence	Aft 10 Mar 2008	Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California   [1]
  	1344 Pacific Avenu, #403
  Political	4 Nov 2008	Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California   [1]
  	a candidate for City Council, receiving 1,992 votes
  Occupation	Aft Jun 2009	Santa Cruz County, California   [1]
  	writer for Examiner.com
  	For a list of his articles see:  http://www.examiner.com/santa-cruz-county-drug-policy-in-san-francisco/j-craig-canada" target="_blank">Santa Cruz County Drug Policy Examiner
  DNA Test	25 Feb 2018
  	Ancestry
  Name	Craig Canada
  Person ID	I1	If the Legends Are True...
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Jay Henry Canada,   b. 21 Dec 1930, Patterson Place, Clay County, Alabama ,   d. 6 Sep 1996, University of Alabama Hospital, Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama  (Age 65 years)
  Relationship	biological
  Mother	Bernice Beatrice Allred,   b. 15 Mar 1932, Lincoln, Talladega, Alabama  (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	biological
  Married	13 Feb 1951	Jacksonville, Calhoun, Alabama
  Divorced	Abt 1973
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Canada → Craig Twin Peaks, San Francisco
  		Canada → Craig San Francisco, California
  		Canada → Craig Right-to-left: Craig Canada, John Entwistle, Dennis Peron, Leland Cole at Hemp Expo, San Francisco (Daly City) Cow Palace, 25 Sep 10

  
  

  Albums

  Canada / Allred (24) The family of Jay Canada and Bernice Allred

  
  

• Notes

  Very intelligent Homosexual ILLEGAL Drug user Uncle Pat – 2002 Well, Uncle Pat isn't exactly wrong...I guess.  But for a less succinct (and more sympathetic)  bio see my About Me page. J. Craig Canada – 2006

  
  

• Reference

  If the Legends Are True... by J. Craig Canada, "Jeffrey Craig Canada" (accessed March 4, 2021) | http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=Legends.