Asbestos-mining-town origin; the miner father

texture · UNDATED (childhood, B.S. era, Montcerf QC)

• When: UNDATED (Wayne's Québec childhood, B.S. / pre-Subsidized through YDPAH; biographical, no stamps)
• What: John Wayne is from Montcerf, Québec, an asbestos-mining town about ten kilometers from the rupture-prone Mercier Dam. His father is an asbestos miner who at forty-three is far and away the seniorest man on his shift, now wearing triple-thick masks and trying to hold on until John Wayne can start making serious money and "take him away from all this." The father has not seen his eldest son play since Wayne's Québecois and Canadian citizenships were revoked (event 3). The whole arc of Wayne's ambition — pro tennis as the family's exit from the mine — sits under this.