David Forsyth’s…
Time-Line…
1853… The Forsyth clan up sticks & set sail for British North America, finally settling in Lynden, Ontario with baby David barely one year old…
1877… “…A founding member of the Dominion Football Association, the first National Football Association to be formed outside of Britain…”
“…having acquired an interest in ‘Soccer’ whilst at university, he was chiefly responsible for popularizing the new sport, not just at the school, but the Berlin* area, generally…”
*‘Soccer’…a pleasingly clunky contraction of AsSOCiation FootER…
1884… …who, in time, will become Berlin Town F.C, soon to change names to the much better known…
Berlin Rangers
The good citizens of Berlin, Ontario (…now going by the name of Kitchener…) are offered by manner of referendum, a decision on whether to keep its traditional Germanic name or change it to something a bit more patriotic as WWI starts to heat up - Fair to say, it gets a little nasty…
Ich bin ein Kitchener !
To Berlin or NOT Berlin -That, is the “Berlin/Kitchener Question!” 1916…
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