Restating my family interests SPINDLER Devon U.K. and beyond KINGWELL Devon U.K. and beyond AMESBURY Somerset U.K. and beyond The beyond is because many emigrated and I am always interested in hearing from them or others who may run across these names. If you suspect your family may have arrived here in British Columbia email me and we will see what we can do to find them. Regards Ian MacPherson Victoria B.C. Canada _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Does any one have access to Mt. View Cemetery records? I just received the death registration of James Henry MACGILL who died 19 Jan 1939, and it indicates he was buried at what I think says Mt. View Cemetery. The only information I have on his wife, Helem Emma Gregory is b. 1864 Hamilton ON d. 1947. I am wondering if she was buried with her husband and some of this information might be available on the gravemarker or in the cemetery records. I cannot find her in the B.C. death indexes. Gayle Mann in Manitoba

Pamela if you are interested I have the 1881 British census, but if your dates are correct he would have been born in 1882. Do you have any other info re bro's and sis's or parents names..........debi CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 250 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [CAN-BC] B.C. Vital Stats - Look-u ["Pamela" <hiflier@connected.bc.ca>] > > Administrivia: > To New Subscribers: > One of the first places you may wish to look is the online > indexes to British Columbia Vital Records, at > http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes > These records are freely available and there are several possibilities > for accessing them at a low cost. If you find relatives there, just > ask on the list and we'll help you get copies of them. > > To unsubscribe from CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-D, send a message > mailto:CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-D-request@rootsweb.com > that contains in the body of the message the command > unsubscribe > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > To contact Pam, the CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-D list maintainer, send mail to > CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-admin@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: [CAN-BC] B.C. Vital Stats - Look-up Please > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:55:14 -0700 > From: "Pamela" <hiflier@connected.bc.ca> > To: CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi, > > If anyone is anywhere near these films I would be grateful just for the information from - > > Death of > Walter Gilbert RANDALL : Feb 21, 1961 at Vancouver : Age 79 : Ref: 002832 : B.C. Archives Film B13250 : > > I am hoping that he was born in Kent, England. > > Thanks - Pamela

Hi, If anyone is anywhere near these films I would be grateful just for the information from - Death of Walter Gilbert RANDALL : Feb 21, 1961 at Vancouver : Age 79 : Ref: 002832 : B.C. Archives Film B13250 : I am hoping that he was born in Kent, England. Thanks - Pamela

Greetings All. After being away from the house since early this morning I came home to an email message from the Office of Senator Lorna Milne. The purpose of the message was to advise that the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology has tentatively scheduled hearings on Senator Milne's Bill S-12 for either 19 or 20 September 2001. Senator Milne has asked that I appear before the Committee to testify in support of Bill S-12. Bill S-12 is identical to MP Murray Calder's Bill C-312 and, if passed by the Senate and the House of Commons without significant change, would satisfy our concerns for public access to Post 1901 Census Records. It expressly authorizes the transfer of all census records from Statistics Canada to the National Archives of Canada for permanent safekeeping. It gives access to the records to genealogists and other researchers 92 years after the census, subject to a privacy right it creates that allows individuals to object to the disclosure of personal information in the census records. For those interested in reading it, there is a link to Bill S-12 provided on the 'Other Sites' page of the Post 1901 Census Project website located at the URL following my signature. Happy Hunting. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, BC http://globalgenealogy.com/Census en francais http://globalgenealogy.com/Census/Index_f.htm Permission to forward without notice is granted.

Recent orbits sent to me by a member of the list, re VALENTINE and CHESWORTHs who emigrated to Victoria from England around 1907, has given me the following relatives. I would be pleased to hear from anyone on the list who might be researching any of these names. Hoyt Wright Chesworth Wood McLellan Knowles Barbara Colquitt, Ashton In Makerfield Wigan, Lancs, England.

The orbit for Richard VALENTINE, who died 1948, late of Tranquille and Vancouver, BC, and who had been a resident of Ladysmith and Extension for many years, states that he was a member of St. John's Lodge A.F. & A.M. G.R.B.C. No. 21 of Ladysmith, also Kamloops Chapter No. 18 Royal Arch Mason. A friend of mine in New Brunswick has pointed out that Ladysmith is about 50 miles north of Victoria; Kamloops hundreds of miles away in the interior of the mainland part of the province. He says it raises an interesting question as to why he was a member of lodges so far from Victoria. Is anyone able to answer this question please? Also would I be able to contact anyone over any records that may have been kept by these lodges? Last, but not least, are there any websites for these lodges please? Barbara Colquitt Ashton In Makerfield, Wigan, Lancs, England.

A very kind person on the list sent me the obit for Mary Jane CHESWORTH, who lived in Victoria, but was previously of Ashton In Makerfield, Wigan, Lancashire, England. Apparently she suffered fatal injuries through a car and train accident at Colwood Crossing and died in August 1937. It is mentioned that "Worthy matron and officers of the Order of Eastern Star, Victoria Chapter No. 17, conducted their service at the funeral parlors before the remains were removed to the church". Is someone able to give me more information on this Order please? Barbara Colquitt, Wigan, Lancs, England.

Travel, for those with vehicles, to Ladysmith from Victoria is like a stroll in the park (once one is on the Island Highway, one either travels North or South) An explanation as to why there was membership in both Kamloops and Ladysmith is likely to be found at the second link. The idea of anyone travelling distances on British Columbia's highways is not uncommon. I've driven to the westcoast of Vancouver Island (Tofino) from the eastcoast of Vancouver Island to have a cup of coffee at Pacific Rim Park's Long Beach. I know of persons who travel that same distance repeatedly in a 24 hour period for various reasons (uncommon) or live in or around Nanaimo (Extension is just south of Nanaimo), Ladysmith or Lake Cowichan and commute to work in Victoria or Vancouver (given the price of housing in the metropolitan areas this often makes econimic sense) St. John's Lodge A.F. & A.M - Ladysmith http://ibnd.com/masons/ "Councils of Royal and Select Masters meet in Victoria, Courtenay, Ladysmith, Kamloops, Creston, Vancouver, North Vancouver, Langley and Chilliwack" http://www.grandchapter-bc-yukon.ca/Further_Light.htm Lists Chapters http://www.grandchapter-bc-yukon.ca/chapters.htm Regards, Dennice researching: Brulè, Poirier, McFadden, Stephens, Michelsen, French, Brooks, Brown, Goudie, Vautrin http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~goudied/ > The orbit for Richard VALENTINE, who died 1948, late of Tranquille and > Vancouver, BC, and who had been a resident of Ladysmith and Extension for > many years, states that he was a member of St. John's Lodge A.F. & A.M. > G.R.B.C. No. 21 of Ladysmith, also Kamloops Chapter No. 18 Royal Arch Mason. > A friend of mine in New Brunswick has pointed out that Ladysmith is about 50 > miles north of Victoria; Kamloops hundreds of miles away in the interior of > the mainland part of the province. He says it raises an interesting question > as to why he was a member of lodges so far from Victoria. > Is anyone able to answer this question please? Also would I be able to > contact anyone over any records that may have been kept by these lodges? > Last, but not least, are there any websites for these lodges please? > Barbara Colquitt > Ashton In Makerfield, > Wigan, Lancs, England.

About Tranquille which is close to Kamloops BC: If anyone was said to be "late of Tranquille" you can be fairly sure they were a patient at the Tuberculosis hospital there. You will find information on that hospital online. Patients lived at Tranquille for long periods, undergoing treatment (there was even a school there) so it doesn't surprise me that R. Valentine's obit indicates he had joined the Kamloops chapter of his lodge too. He may have once lived at Ladysmith, and first joined the order while there. City Directories are available up to the year 1948 for all BC cities, so you could trace his time in each place. The book written on Tranquille's history is called A Whole Little City by Itself. Here's one website that tells about the place. (Wayne Norton is author) http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/news/Pastnov26/Tranqll.html Information about the book "Whole Little City by Itself" is included on this page: http://www.sonotek.com/plateau.html Although BC Archives holds records from this hospital (long closed), any patient records could be under restricted access for many years yet because of the privacy laws. Richard Valentine's death registration (on microfilm) should give the cause of death. Claudia Cole claudialc@home.com -----Original Message----- From: MBSumcol@aol.com [mailto:MBSumcol@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 2:20 PM To: CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CAN-BC] Richard VALENTINE - Member of St. John's Lodge - emigrated from England 1907 The obit for Richard VALENTINE, who died 1948, late of Tranquille and Vancouver, BC, and who had been a resident of Ladysmith and Extension for many years, states that he was a member of St. John's Lodge A.F. & A.M. G.R.B.C. No. 21 of Ladysmith, also Kamloops Chapter No. 18 Royal Arch Mason. A friend of mine in New Brunswick has pointed out that Ladysmith is about 50 miles north of Victoria; Kamloops hundreds of miles away in the interior of the mainland part of the province. He says it raises an interesting question as to why he was a member of lodges so far from Victoria. Is anyone able to answer this question please? Also would I be able to contact anyone over any records that may have been kept by these lodges? Last, but not least, are there any websites for these lodges please? Barbara Colquitt Ashton In Makerfield, Wigan, Lancs, England. ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== Check the list's archives out at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html

This site explains the order: http://www.oescal.org/whatisit.htm Don (in Vancouver) http://members.home.net/crawf mailto:copies@home.com -----Original Message----- From: MBSumcol@aol.com [mailto:MBSumcol@aol.com] Sent: August 22, 2001 1:18 PM To: CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CAN-BC] Mrs. Mary Jane CHESWORTH - Order of Eastern Star mentioned that "Worthy matron and officers of the Order of Eastern Star, Victoria Chapter No. 17, conducted their service at the funeral parlors before the remains were removed to the church". Is someone able to give me more information on this Order please? Barbara Colquitt, Wigan, Lancs, England.

Hello list. Got an email telling me my Marie Landry Married Benoine Leblanc in 1822. Has any one any info on this couple? Heard they had many children!! Thank you. Viola.

Hello Fellow Listers! I was wondering, if, there was anyone out there who might be able to assist me in acquiring for Secerecy Act Forms to get my father's Regimental Number for the Canadian Air Force? Is there a website to this, or, a ph/fax #, please? If, there is no website, just the SNAIL MAIL will do. Thank you very much. Shannah

Hello from Ontario: Thanks to the BC on-line sites, I have been able to locate one of my g-grandfather's sons - On the BC Archives Death Reg. Index Charles Herbert Bickel, d. l966 Sept. 2, Vancouver, Reg.l966-09-011464 BC Archives: B l3279 GSU 2033855 May Alice Bickel, d. l967 Aug. ll, Chilliwack, Reg.l967-09-010571 BC Archives: B13285 GSU 2033929 On the BCCFA: Bickel, Charles, Mountain View Cem., Vancouver, Fraser St. BCGS-C-62 Bickel, May A. (same) Charles Herbert Bickel was the son of Joseph Henry Bickel and Jane SMITH, who lived in Ontario, North Dakota and then Winnipegosis, Man. in l900. Charles joined the Army and served in England, marrying May Alice Butler there in 1918. Charles H. Bickel was the brother of my grandmother, Lily May (Bickel)DUXBURY. His other brothers were: Edward E. b. 1878, Ont. and Ernest V. b. 1880 Ont. He had half-brothers/sisters under the HUNKING name. Any information/connections would be appreciated. Norma

Hi all, wondering if anyone happens to know (or be!!) a descendant of Frederick William Rudolph born 1877 in Victoria. He married Emma Boulderstone in England in 1903. He died 1955 in West Vancouver, Emma in the 60s in Surrey. I know its a long shot-but, you never know! Cheers, Erin _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Hello ........... I am new on this list ......... I would like to state my research interests. I am looking for Transplanted Newfies (Newfoundland) .......... anyone with connections to WINSER / WINSOR / WINDSOR, with beginnings in Aquaforte, Newfoundland - originating in Denbury, Devonshire, England I am also looking for Transplanted Manitoba folks ................. anyone with connections to HODGSON / BROWN - with beginnings in MANITOU - From Manitoba back to HESPELER, ONTARIO for Hodgson / Hopper, and back to Bempton, Yorkshire England for the Hodgson's and the Brown family from Galt, Ontario to DONDONALD, AYRESHIRE, SCOTLAND for the Brown's. Many of these people have retired in British Columbia. I am anxious to hear from anyone with knowledge of or about these families. Helen

To the kind souls who offered to fulfill my lookup request. I find it gratifying that there were so many who were able to lend a hand offlist. Know that you offers are much appreciated as I attempt to get myself back into genealogy research after some major life changes in the last few months. Regards, Dennice researching: Brulè, Poirier, McFadden, Stephens, Michelsen, French, Brooks, Brown, Goudie, Vautrin http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~goudied/ > Would SKA, manage a lookup for: ROSMAN - especially records of those born, > married or deceased on SALT SPRING ISLAND (this would include GANGES) > > Name: EDWARD ROSMAN > Event Date: 1963 3 10 (Yr/Mo/Day) > Age: 90 > Gender: Male > Event Place: SAANICH > > Reg. Number: 1963-09-003597 > B.C. Archives Microfilm Number: B13260 > GSU Microfilm Number: 2033502 >

I have ordered John Leedom HELLIWELL's death registration from Salt Lake City and the order came back marked "This film has been held up in a restiction problem" Could someone please check to see if the same problem exists for the BC Archives film? John Leedom Helliwell d. 25 Nov 1980 Vancouver age 76 Reg # 1980-09-017904 BC Archives film # B13607. Gayle Mann in Manitoba

Shannah: I don't know if this helps or not...but, I went through my the local vet's hospital when we were going through the paperwork to get Dad admtted. They were able to give me the info on where to look. You could also try veteren's affairs......I know there is a website, but at the moment I have forgotten the address....I will have a look and get back to you. Carol in London, Ontario. Carol's (under construction) Family Site http://www.cfwin.homestead.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. Griggs" <twiss_griggs@uniserve.com> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:34 PM Subject: [CAN-BC] TWISS family > Hello Fellow Listers! > > I was wondering, if, there was anyone out there who might be able to assist me in acquiring for Secerecy Act Forms to get my father's Regimental Number for the Canadian Air Force? Is there a website to this, or, a ph/fax #, please? If, there is no website, just the SNAIL MAIL will do. > > Thank you very much. > > Shannah > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > Check the list's archives out at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.265 / Virus Database: 137 - Release Date: 7/18/01

Shannah: What number are you looking for exactly? Was your father in the Air Force post-integration(1968)? Called Canadian Armed Forces (Air) or was he with the RCAF? If your father was in the Air Force(RCAF) he would not be in a regiment. That is Army terminology. If your father worked as a navigator, pilot or related operational trade(ie:airframe mechanic) he would be attached to a squadron. Squadrons are numbered. These numbers sometimes change with the different role of a squadron, but sqn.histories online show the timeline and number changes. If he was a driver,fireman or a support person, he would be in a 'section'. Pre-integration a base was called an RCAF Station. Many (stations) are represented on the internet. Do you know where he served? If he was in the Air Force post integration, he could be attached to an Army base or serve on a ship ! WW RCAF ArchiviaNet the search engine for Canada's Archives gives data on veterans of the 1st & 2nd WW's. RCAF ID number,CAF ID numbers, Regiment and/or Squadron numbers are not private information. With a few more clues, I could perhaps point you in the right direction. Penny