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| David B. Story “Gratitude In Action” can be found on the following page of the Big Book (4th edition, page 193) |
David Bancroft was born on June 25, 1908, in Toronto. He spent his youth in Knowlton, Quebec. He married Dorothy Ford on September 1, 1929. They had three children and thirteen grandchildren.
Dr. Travis Dancey, a young Montreal physician interested in alcoholism, had tried to get Dave to read the Big Book while he was confined in a mental institution. Dave, angry and rebellious, literally threw the book at him.
After he completed his military service in World War Two in late 1944, Dr. Dancey returned to Montreal and saw Dave again as a newly sober member of AA. He recalled that Dave not only dragged him around to AA meetings, “but he had the effrontery to explain the spiritual principles of the program to me!” Dr. Dancey went on to become a First-Class A (non-alcoholic) trustee from Canada from 1965 to 1974.
Dave was a tireless twelfth-stepper. He founded the first AA group in Quebec. He served as a Class B (alcoholic) trustee from 1962 to 1964. Dave’s date of sobriety was April 7, 1944. He died on December 9, 1984.