A year after the birth of Evelyn, Donald and Alexandra MacLean (Evelyns parents) moved from Beamsville to 214 Rosslyn Avenue in Hamilton Ontario. While Evelyn was growing up as a child she did not associate with the other children on her street very much. Her parents did not want to her go out they said she was to fragile to play on the streets with the other kids. Evelyns father Donald was always into the alcohol every night he would be drunk. As a child Evelyn always slept in the same bed as her mother. Alexandra said that Evelyn always liked cleaning the house all the time she said that is was her favorite thing to do. Her mother was always trying her hardest to raise herself and Evelyns social standings. As an adult Evelyn was always hosting lavish parties at The Royal Connaught Hotel. The Royal Connaught hotel was the hottest hotel in Hamilton at the time(1940's).
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The MacLeans lived a very well life. They had huge sums of money in the bank that Evelyn would spend the money shopping buying expensive gifts for herself and other people. There were rumors that Donald was steeling money and tickets of the HSR. Evelyn had expensive jewelry and fur coats than was considered proper. Evelyn spent most of her time in the company of older men at places out of town and at the race tracks.
In 1942 Evelyn gave birth to her first child a girl her name was Heather White. No one knew who the father was. In that time if you were a women and had a baby without being married was out of the question it was bad not acceptable. Evelyn told people that the father of her baby was stationed over sea that he was in the military and also that she was married to him and he past away. The summer after Heather was born Evelyn gave birth to a still born baby. Then a year later she gave birth to her third child on September 5 1944 Peter David White. She had told her mother that she had given Peter up for adoption. |
Alexandra and Donald split up and Evelyn and Alexandra got an apartment together but the apartment was under Evelyns name. Their apartment was in downtown Hamilton.
Evelyn met John Dick for the first time when her and Heather went down to her fathers work at the HSR. John was kind to her daughter so automatically Evelyn was attracted to him and started being flirtatious. Evelyn liked John because he brought her gifts. After only a month of Evelyn and John being together Evelyn told her mother that she was going to marry John. Alexandra had never heard of John so she was very confused. Evelyn and John got married and Evelyn bought a house on Carrick Avenue. After only one month of John and Evelyn being married they already started having problems. A reason because of their problems was because Alexandra was living with them and Evelyn and Alexandra would sleep in the same bed every night, and John did not understand why that was happening. |
It was later found out that the reason why Evelyn slept in the same bed as her mother was because her father Donald MacLean had molested her when she was younger. So she started sleeping in the same bed as her mother because she felt safe with her mother, because Donald and Alexandra did not sleep in the same bed. Ever since then she has slept in the same bed as her mother, because she was scared to sleep on her own because of her father.
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