Do You Need A Speaker?
Don Dulmage is often called on to speak to groups. If you are looking for a speaker and are not too far away from his home near Belleville Ontario it may be possible he could speak to your group or meeting. Don is a very relaxed speaker and has also done a bit of video and TV work.
Some of he speaking he has done is below.
OGS Quinte. Crouse/Wannamaker Lecture. (Ontarios Hessian Soldiers)
Seventh Town Historical Society
Hastings Park Joyful Praisers Seniors group
Bellevillle Public Library Brown Bag Lunch series.
Northumberland Klub Treff
Belleville German Canadian Club
Below are some of the subjects he has spoken on.
Adventure.
GERMANY
Don found his original German family (Dolmetsch from which the english spelling Dulmage comes) After 292 years of no contact Don reunitied the family ties. In the process he learned to speak German at a practical level and saw and photographed the areas where his family came from and still live. He has written a book on his adventures called Return to Deutschland.
HOLLAND
Don and his wife Linda were also just recently able to reunite Linda with some of her Dutch family. Linda who was born Linda Peck is from the Peeck family of Holland. In North America the family eventually dropped the second e and adopted the Peck spelling.
FRANCE
Don had two great uncles who were part of the Canadian Expeditonary Force in France in World War 1. One was his Mother's Uncle and one was his Father's Uncle. They are buried only a few Km apart having died within a day of each other. Through an unusal set of circumstances Don met a man in France who found both graves for him after 81 years of the famiies not knowing where their loved ones were buried.
Armed with a smattering of French that he he learned in high school and while working for a few years in Montreal, Don and his wife Linda, set off for France and visited the war graves of his Great Uncles.
He was also able to find a friends Grandfather's grave while on this adventure.
MUSIC
Don is a guiter player and at the age of 50 decided to learn the violin after inheriting his Mothers instrument. Finding it a bit small he learned to make his own fiddles in the style of early Canadian pioneers and often gives talks on how a mechanic goes from building motors to making violins. He has also done this for Cogegco cable TV in Belleville while speaking as the guest speaker for the John Parrot Gallery Brown Bag Lunch series. Often on Labour Day weekends Don can be found at the Ameliasburgh Museum with his homemade instruments. He will be playing them or working on some part for the next one and often has several on display.
Automotive.
Don has taught at the Community College level for several years and has a deep interest in race engines and high performance. His motors have been used as far away as Europe in the Lemans Classique series. Mopars are his favourite. He understands his subject well and can explain things in an understandable way. He has written for Automotive Magazines in both the USA and Canada and has also published a book on the 440 series of Chrysler motors which has sold for many years world wide. He is a no nonsense down to earth engine man who believes strongly in the basic simple effective type of motors and is not given to the trick of the month type of motors. Going faster on less is his passion.
If you are holding a Mopar event and need a speaker you may find he is well known on both sides of the border by his writings and also to some extent in Europe. He also has still his boyhood sense of humour.
Here is Don giving the Annual Crouse Wanamker Lecture to the Quinte Branch OGS.
Contact info.
Email,
Phone 613-969-8145
Address
Don Dulmage
RR#1 Belleville, Ontario
Canada
K8N4Z1
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