Several decades after a gesture of kindness to all
Newfoundland orphans from an American serviceman, a former Mount Cashel
orphanage resident’s eyes filled with tears Tuesday. “He was just fantastic,” said the
grieving man — not being named here because there is a publication The man was talking about Earl Chilton, who has nothing to do with the
trial, but brought a bright spot to a dark time in the Avalon Peninsula
man’s life back in the 1950s while he was a boy at the now infamous
Mount Cashel orphanage and Chilton was stationed at the nearby American
base Fort Pepperrell in Pleasantville.ban
on his identity due to the ongoing Mount Cashel civil trial.
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