Editing Red Pollard (section)

==Family history==
Red Pollard was the grandson of Michael Pollard, born in 1834 in [[Ireland]]. Michael emigrated to [[New Jersey]] in 1850, moved to [[Illinois]] by 1855, and in 1863 married Irish immigrant Bridget Moloney.  They moved to [[Iowa]] in 1870, where Red's father, John A., was born in 1875.

John A. immigrated to [[Edmonton]], [[Alberta]], in 1898. After the turn of the century, he and his brother Frank founded the Pollard Bros Brickyard.

John M. "Red" Pollard was born in Edmonton in 1909. He spent his early years in affluence, but the family brickyard was destroyed when the [[North Saskatchewan River]] [[North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915|flooded in 1915]], instantly throwing the family into poverty.<ref name="ESPN30828"/>