sentences:  Atkey was born in Toronto, Ontario, on 16 August 1894, the second of five children born to Alfred Atkey, a builder and farmer, and his wife Annie Evelyn (née Shaw).His grandfather, also Alfred, was born in Newport, Isle of Wight, in 1848, and had emigrated to Canada with his parents in the 1850s.In 1906, his family moved west to Nunebor, Saskatchewan.