Acting legend Donald Sutherland was born in Saint John, N.B., in 1935, but he spent many childhood years in Nova Scotia. "I'm a Bluenoser, I guess," he once said. "I smell like it. I feel like it. I think like it. The jokes that I find funny are essentially Nova Scotian jokes."Legendary Canadian actor Donald Sutherland was born in New Brunswick, but this is the Nova Scotia house he lived in for a few years of his childhood.
While Sutherland was born in Saint John, N.B., in 1935, he spent many childhood years in Nova Scotia. His parents were from Lockeport, N.S.A November 1950 photo shows Donald Sutherland and some of his classmates from Bridgewater High School. Sutherland, who would have been 15 at the time, is third from the right.
Sutherland, sixth from right, is shown with some of his Bridgewater High School classmates in a photo that is believed to have been taken at a February 1951 school dance. He would have been 15 at the time. . "I smell like it. I feel like it. I think like it. The jokes that I find funny are essentially Nova Scotian jokes."
"We would drive there in a Ford convertible, painted orange. We called it the orange crate," Sutherland told Oickle."I think that speaks volumes to the kind of character he had that he, you know, he recognized that I really wanted to chat with him and he took the initiative to make that happen, right?" Oickle told CBC.Sutherland told Oickle that he was still in touch with many people he knew from Bridgewater."The people there were amazing," Sutherland told Oickle.
Nickerson found possessions in the home that belonged to Sutherland and his family, such as books. Wondering if he'd want them back, one of Nickerson's daughters contacted Sutherland's publicist. Sutherland reminisced about his mother's strawberry shortcake and his father grilling lamb chops outside. And he talked about the breakfast nook, which still exists. Actors Jena Malone, Natalie Dormer, Jennifer Lawrence and Donald Sutherland attend a special screening of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 in New York on Nov. 18, 2015.