My First Bee Registration

Many years ago my grandfather introduced me to bee keeping. I took an interest in beekeeping and my parents helped me purchase a few more colonies from John Craighead a local beekeeper who had a store outlet on his farm selling candles crafts and honey. This was the beginning of my beekeeping career that would end in my late teens when I chose to run wild as young men often do. I still remember the inspector at the time Norm McWaters teaching me how to do a walk away split after finding a few swarm cell's during an inspection. Fond memories of driving to Wooler Ontario when I first got a drivers license to purchase supplies from Neil Orr and the old catalogs from Bensons and few other no longer existing beekeeping suppliers. I can not remember the exact year I started beekeeping this is the earliest record I have found from almost 30 years ago.