The Long Run Read Free

“Pensioner died 28-7-75, ‘NF’ district.” No newspaper reports noted that he was one of the First Five Hundred, was wounded at Beaumont-Hamel, or the only Newfoundland-born athlete who had or would ever try to represent his once independent country at an Olympiad.
    From the track at St. Bon’s, to his sprint into No Man’s Land at Beaumont-Hamel, through completing the full marathon course in Antwerp, throughout his continuous moves between downtown St. John’s boarding houses most of the latter decades of his life, Eric Mackenzie Robertson had finished his long run.
    153 Joseph R. Smallwood, Premier of Newfoundland 1949-1972.
    154 See Appendix 2.
    155 See Appendix 3 for an example of these correspondences.
    156 W. David Parsons, personal interview, 3 March, 2014.
    157 Although it may have been referenced (probably not by him) in one of his arguments with the Board of Pensions Commission, “New-found,” 312, footnote 29.

APPENDIX ONE
Robertson’s letter to the Pension Commission
December 10, 1951

APPENDIX TWO
Excerpt from Robertson’s letter to the Pension Commission
August 10, 1957

APPENDIX THREE
Correspondances regarding the distribution of Robertson’s pension
1964–1966

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