Posted on 09/20/2015 1:38:41 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Canadians amused by the improbable presidential run of Donald Trump might be surprised to learn the role their own country played in shaping his story.
Trump's grandfather started the family fortune in an adventure that involved the Klondike gold rush, the Mounties, prostitution and twists of fate that pushed him to New York City.
Friedrich Trump had been in North America a few years when he set out for the Yukon, says an author who's just completed a new edition of her multi-generational family biography.
That Canadian chapter proved pivotal for the entrepreneurial German immigrant, says Gwenda Blair, author of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire.
"It allowed him to get together the nest egg he'd come to the United States for," the author and Columbia University journalism professor said in an interview.
"Whether he could've accumulated that much money somewhere else, in that short a period of time, as a young man with no connections, and initially not even English, is certainly ... unlikely."
He'd left Europe in 1885 at age 16, a barber's apprentice whose father died young.
Trump wanted a life outside the barber shop, far from the family-owned vineyards his ancestors had been working since they'd settled in Germany's Kallstadt region in the 1600s carrying the soon-altered surname Drumpf.
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My Dad used a radio and Arc Light to pretty much kill most of an NVA division that was backed up to a river.
And when he got back, because of his VN service he was treated like a pariah in his church.
Liquor and whores. So what?
Life’s a bitch, then you die.
Go Trump, no quarter.
This is a resume’ enhancer! Thanks!
Cool by me!
We could say Grandpa was doing a charitable thing for the miners.
This really won’t help the Huckster
The gold rush was in 1849, I believe. That’s going back over 165 years, 5 or 6 generations, to try to throw mud at Donald.
Whoever said that this week the MSM and GOPe were going to create a storm of crap to try to take Donald down was right on target. Was it Rush?
Well, no matter. This is beneath pathetic.
Unabhängig
See............even his grandfather cherished women.
Yeah, like Levi Strauss. Grandpa Trump was just getting them OUT of their dungarees.
Obamas father was forced to leave the US.
You could almost feel sorry for the worthless bastards.
My dad was a Kentucky Rum runner...and a 30 year military vetetan.
Media, want to talk about Hurst your Media God started a war? No? then STFU.
My great grandfather played piano in a whorehouse,at least that’s what he told the family.Actually he was a lawyer,but you just can’t tell your kids a thing like that.
Amfinishing the book. The Trumps family is the America. Dream on steroids. Strong German work ethic combined with GEEEEENIUS!
Check out Uncle John Trump
It was a mercy mission.
OH NO! OH MY! What will we do? Dear, dear, dear.
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I understand my great great grandfather was a deserter in the Swivel War...from the Union... so what? I’m not.
Just three generations 1880s
My grandfather burned the school in Indian Territory.
My great grandfather was a territorial martial for Judge Parker and drank a lot and shot at people from his front gate.
Oh dear.
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