User:Gerald A. Archambeau/Sandbox

The title of story is: "The lost history of my grandfather, Jamaican born Police Inspector Herbert Theodore Thomas; 1856 to 1930". My grandfather Herbert T. Thomas made a significant contribution to Jamaica, as a Lecturer, Naturalist, Explorer and Author. His work as a Police Inspector had much to do with his struggle against voodoo, called Obeah and in 1891 he wrote a Pamphlet Titled "Something about Obeah" for the first Jamaican Exhibition in 1891. I Gerald A. Archambeau as his grandson felt that it was my duty to expose the truth about my grandfather's second marriage to my black Jamaican grandmother Leonora Thomas, who bore him four daughters. My mother's name was Phyllis Angela Thomas, who had a great affection for her father Herbert. She asked me before her passing in 1990 after giving me her father's books, to write and tell the truth about her third generation white Jamaican father who had the guts to cross the racial divide in British Colonial Jamaica. The family of my grandfather came to Jamaica as Moravian missionaries in 1754. As a grandson and Jamaican born author that is now a proud Canadian Citizen, since 1955. The title of my book is:"A Struggle to Walk with Dignity-The True story of a Jamaican-born Canadian"2008. My grandfather wrote his two books "Untrodden Jamaica"1890 and "The story of a West Indian Policeman-47 years in the Jamaica Constabulary"1927.decades before I did my autobiography which reveals the whole story about my family life, and some lost and erased history on Jamaica. Fortunately for me and my family my autobiography was successful, and all of the family history has been preserved in York University Toronto On. Canada-in The Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections-Scott Library, titled: "The Archambeau-Thomas family Collection" for historians & public use.