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DID YOU KNOW First World War hero, Saskatchewan Roughriders legend Piffles Taylor was born in Collingwood area?

Jan 10, 2022 , , , , by shlf

Neil (Piffles) Taylor led an extraordinary life.

He was a prisoner during the First World War, played quarterback with a glass eye and had the former home of the Saskatchewan Roughriders named in his honour.

And while he spent most of his life in Western Canada, his roots can be traced back to south Georgian Bay.

Taylor was born on a Singhampton farm in 1895 to Samuel and Mary Taylor. He lived on the farm for several years before his family moved to Yellow Grass, Sask., and eventually Regina.

According to his grandson Jack Milliken, after studying in the Canadian officer training course at the University of Toronto in 1915, Taylor joined the forces in early 1916 and arrived in London later that year. 

He joined the Royal Flying Corps and was sent to France in August 1917.

On Sept. 19, 1917, Taylor was shot down and captured, as he described in a letter to his brother Sam dated three days later. 

“I can write only a short note as I have been wounded in the right shoulder and the right cheek,” he wrote. “Mumford, my observer, got bullets in the leg and in the arm and could not fight. I did my best till the last and had to land when my eyes filled with blood, which I did without crashing. Write my C.O. (commanding officer) and tell him I was sorry to let him down.”

He sustained many injuries, including the loss of his eye.

In his letters, he spoke of how he was treated well by the enemy, but a letter to his mother in December 1918 told a different story.

“I suppose you would like to know how the Germans have treated the prisoners of war,” he wrote. “I have always tried to make my letters cheerful in order to prevent you from worrying, and for my own part, I have no wish to complain now, but when you receive these letters, speaking of the kindness of the enemy etc., it makes one fairly boil. Now that the war is over, the question naturally arises: has it been worthwhile? The sorrows, the sacrifices and the suffering? I know that no one seriously doubts it, but if anyone does, they should ask any prisoner of war.”

After returning to Saskatchewan, Taylor got involved in rugby and what became the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played quarterback with a glass eye and, after his playing days, he coached the Regina Boat Club Seniors in 1922.

In 1926, he started on the executive of the Regina Roughriders, and eventually became president.

The Roughriders’ former home was named Taylor Field in his honour and, up until 2004, the winner of the CFL’s West Division received the Piffles Taylor Trophy. In 2006, the street in front of Taylor Field was named Piffle Taylor Way. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1963.

He died in 1947.

How did he get the nickname Piffles?

“My cousin Sam was the authority on where the name came from, and I believe he said it meant somebody who was full of it, back in the day, and he picked it up at university and it stuck to him,” said Milliken, who lives in Wasaga Beach.

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‘Not enough being said’: Friends and family wonder about cyclist’s death in Wasaga Beach

Sep 22, 2021 , , , , by shlf

Friends and family of a father of three are struggling to understand the circumstances that led to his death.

Nicholas Enslow was cycling along Lyons Court in the middle of the night, between Oct. 1 and 2, when he was struck by a large truck, according to his former partner and mother of his children, Jessica Meek.

He died several hours later at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Some of his organs were donated.

“He saved five people’s lives,” said Meek, who had been split from Enslow for several years but still maintained a friendship.

Their children range in age from nine to 12.

Police have neither released details about the incident nor responded to requests for comment from Simcoe.com. Meek said Enslow’s mother was given few details about her son’s death other than police believe he had swerved into the path of the truck.

“She just feels there’s not enough being said,” Meek said.

Meek said the driver of the truck stayed with Enslow until the arrival of emergency services. Enslow was taken to the hospital in Collingwood, then airlifted to Toronto.

Meek said the 36-year-old man — he would have been 37 in mid October — was “a troubled” individual who had drug issues.

Meek said police have told the family the only thing he seemed to have in his possession was a prescription for pain medication.

Enslow was homeless, Meek said, and would bounce between the Out of the Cold shelter in Collingwood, living outside and crashing at the homes of friends and family.

“He’d slept in tents, if he could get a couch for the night somewhere … wherever,” Meek said. “We’re not sure why he was out that way (on Lyons Court); it could have been because he was between Collingwood and Wasaga Beach a lot.”

More troubling, Meek said, is his wallet and backpack are both missing. Enslow received Ontario Disability Support Payments and, without a bank account, would have had the cash from a cheque he had cashed a day earlier.

“He was never without his backpack,” Meek said. “There’s no doubt in my mind he wouldn’t have (lost) his backpack and wallet — (as someone who is homeless), that’s one of those things he would have kept with him constantly.”

He had pictures of himself with his children in the wallet — items that Enslow’s mother is desperate to have returned to her.

“Nick was a good, kind-hearted person,” Meek said. “He had his troubles, but he was always caring, and he would help others, even if it meant him not having.

“He was a great dad. He hadn’t been able to be in (his children’s) lives a lot lately, mostly phone calls, and he loved his mom. We’d all tried to make things better for him, but it was rough.”