Walter Harris Callow
Walter Harris Callow (1896-1958) bụ onye agha Canada nke mepụtara bọs maka ndị agha na-alọta site na WW2 na ndị ọzọ nọ n'oche nkwagharị (1947).[1][2] O mepụtara ma jikwaa Walter Callow Wheelchair Bus, ebe ya onwe ya kpuru ìsì, nwere ụkwụ anọ, ma mesịa bepụ ụkwụ abụọ. Callow haziri njem maka ndị agha nwere nkwarụ, njem nleta n'ime obodo, picnics, ihe omume egwuregwu, klas nka na ihe omume ndị ọzọ. A mụrụ ya na Parrsboro, Nova Scotia ma ghọọ onye bi na Camp Hill Military Hospital ruo afọ iri abụọ.
Dika onye otu ndi Royal Flying Corps na camp Mohawk, Ontario, Callow gbariri na nwale nke flight na 1918. O nwetere ezigbo mmeru ahu na azu ya nakwa nsogbu obi. O bidoro azumahia Lumber na Advocate, Nova Scotia. O kwusiri IGA Ike na 1931 Maka ahu ndi ahu omeruru, n'otu afo ahu nne ya na nwunye nwuru hapuru ya nwa di ntakiri. O bidoro izu ahia nke ere ulo.
N'afọ 1937, Callow ghọrọ onye bi oge niile n'ụlọ ọgwụ Camp Hill ma afọ abụọ ka e mesịrị, ọ kpuru ìsì ma nwee ọrịa quadriplegic. Mgbe ọ nọ n'ụlọ ọgwụ ahụ, o guzobere otu ndị nduzi ma were ndị odeakwụkwọ abụọ n'ọrụ. O guzobere Callow Cigarette Fund iji zigara ndị agha na-eje ozi na mba ofesi n'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ.
Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, ọ gbanwere ego sịga ya ka ọ bụrụ ọrụ ụgbọ ala nwere nkwarụ (1947). [3] Ọ malitere site n'inwe bọs abụọ a rụrụ na Pubnico, Nova Scotia; Prevost rụrụ bọs ise sochirinụ, ndị ọzọ rụkwara ụdị ndị ọzọ. Ọ kpọrọ ụlọ ọrụ ahụ "Callow Veterans' and Invalids' Welfare League" wee guzobe ọfịs na Halifax. Ọ rụrụ ọrụ n'akwụsịghị akwụsị iji mee ka ụlọ ọrụ dị mfe ma mee ka mkpa nke ndị nwere nkwarụ pụta ìhè. Usoro bọs Walter Callow rụrụ ọrụ na Nova Scotia niile ruo 2019, otu bọs Callow rụrụ site na Lethbridge, Alberta n'etiti afọ 1954 na 1969.
E mere emume olili ozu Walter Harris Callow na Halifax na nsọpụrụ agha zuru oke. Nanị oge Callow nwere ohere ịgba bọs ya bụ mgbe e weghachiri ozu ya na Advocate ka e lie ya.
- ↑ Veteran had indomitable spirit: Paralyzed airman invented bus that accommodates wheelchairs. Halifax Daily News, Wednesday 26 September 2007. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved on 24 June 2013.
- ↑ Ottawa Citizen - 23 Aug 1950 Callow's bus had a hydrolic ramp. The following year an accessibility bus with a manual ramp was used in Toronto.
- ↑ Carman Miller. The 1940s: War and Rehabilitation. in The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation. University of Toronto. 1993. p. 307