Hi, The 2 other kids in this photo taken around 1925 are unknown to me. One is just identified as a son of the farm owners named Dennis?, maybe at Hatzic?. The other is a Betty Hargrove, maybe from Capilano? Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Hi, Just in case anyone might know who these friends of my Mom and Aunt were, I'd be happy to share a copy. This would have been in 1928 at Capilano, at our family home there. Jim Bundy

Hi, He's noted as Mom's first date, while they were both at UBC. If anyone might know him, I'll be glad to share the photo, taken in front of the (old?) library. It'd be around 1935. Jim Bundy

Hi, Again, in case someone might know of this family, I'm mentioning I've scanned a picture of this family with grandma, on an outing down to Bellingham. My mother was close to the 2 sisters for many years. I think one of the sisters may have had physical challenges. Last I knew the 2 sisters were in a senior residence together in the Vancouver area. Jim Bundy

Hi, I just scanned a photo of these 3 at the Capilano River, in front of the old "black bridge". Mom told me about this old bridge, and when I was a kid, all that was left were some footings, and a wooden wall to keep people off of it. Of course, the "new bridge" is gone now also, replaced by the Upper Levels Highway bridge. I really enjoyed playing along the river, jumping from rock to rock. Pearl Young later married a man named Kinnie, who died quite young, and Pearl raised her 2 sons by herself. She lived in a big log house on the hill in Capilano, at the far end of it, in a secluded forested area. Her son Michael took me once along with him as he distributed newspapers to the local paper boys in the Capilano Highlands area. Anyway, if anyone would like to see the scan, I'd be happy to share it. Jim Bundy

Hi, I just scanned another photo, which includes a Mary Alice Watson with Mom and Aunt Nancy. Looks to be in the early 1930's. Apparently Mary was a relative of a good neighbour friend of my family's, Mrs Kennedy, who lived just up a steep bank from our family home. Adults tended to walk all the way around on the roads to get up there, but not us kids, and we climbed that bank in seconds. :) Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Hi, I just scanned this picture. Dr Miller was the doctor for many people at Capilano at this time. Says 1935 on the back, but Mom put a question mark by that, and I agree, probably around 1930. Also, in the background are bits of snow, and the court looks quite wet, so probably no tennis that day. Mom and Aunt Nancy were born at the family home in Capilano, but I wonder if Dr Miller to verify they were ok. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim

Greetings All. I copy below for your interest a letter sent yesterday to the editor of The National Post in response to an article by Meagan Fitzpatrick. The letter has been acknowledged with a note that it will be considered for publication. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, British Columbia Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm ========================================= 15 March 2007 Editor. The National Post. Re: "More than half of Canadians willing to share information" In her 14 March article Meagan Fitzpatrick stated "The 2006 Census, for the first time, gave Canadians the opportunity to choose to have their census information made available to the public in 92 years..." The implication of this statement is that never before in the history of Canada has information from Census been made available to the public. Unfortunately, Ms. Fitzpatrick, along with the general public, has been misled by information provided by Statistics Canada. In actual fact, for the first time in history Canadians had the opportunity to prevent information they provide to Census from being released to the public after a period of closure. For genealogical and historic research purposes this is a major step backward. For censuses prior to 2006, information for all respondents has been made available to the public after a period of closure. Up to 1980 that period of closure was governed simply by archival practice, which was generally considered to be about 100 years. With the passage of the Privacy and Access to Information Acts in 1980 to 1983 the period of closure was legally mandated, for the first time, at 92 years. Statistics Canada would have the public believe that the 'informed consent' (or 92-year) question was something sought after by genealogists and historians. Nothing could be further from the truth. Opposition to such a question is a matter of record in Hansard records of Senate Committee hearings. Regulations attached to the Privacy Act clearly state public access to Census records is allowed for purposes of research, after a 92-year period of closure. That access however was being prevented, through a technical loophole invoked by Chief Statistician Ivan P. Fellegi After an eight year campaign to regain access to Historic Census records, genealogists and historians were coerced into not opposing imposition of an 'informed consent' question in Bill S-18. They were advised that unless they agreed not to oppose the question, the government would not present the Bill to restore unfettered access (after 92 years) to Censuses up to 2005. With an overall positive response to the question of less than 56 percent, the 2006 Census has been destroyed as a complete and viable research tool for genealogists and historians. For more than 44 percent of Canadians, future genealogists will find no mention of their ancestors in the Census. No longer will historians be able to compile a complete demographic picture of the Canadian family through Census. It is a tragedy that defies comprehension. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee 1455 Delia Drive Port Coquitlam, BC, V3C 2V9

Hi, I just scanned this photo, the lady is not named, but she was the landlady at the place where my aunt taught school. My mother also was a teacher during this time, started about a year later than Nancy. The lady is standing in some snow, while there's a herd of sheep behind her, who are on a patch of ground without snow. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Hi, I've just scanned the above photo. If the name Diana Troake means anything to any of you, I'd be happy to share the scan with you. Jim Bundy

Hi, I just scanned a picture with the above persons. I remember getting my first swim lessons at the pool there, and some great fish and chips! They just tasted better having them at the beach. :) Let me know if you'd like to see it. As to the beach itself, the water was really cold as I recall. Jim Bundy

Hi, I just scanned a photo of the opening of the Capilano tennis court, about 1930. On the back of this one it says "Mr Milne, engineer who was a great help in getting our tennis court built, he got good prices for us on material and labor". He's making a speech here. I remember the place as a child, painted in a dark green, just up the hill a bit from Capilano Road. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Hi,I've just scanned a picture of Mom in her Girl Guide uniform and with a signal flag. This would also have been in the 1920's. My understanding is that the use of flags reflected the major form of communication in the trenches in WW1. Mom's Dad, James, was in signaling in WW1, and used the flags a lot. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Hi,I've just scanned a picture of Mom in her Girl Guide uniform and with a signal flag. This would also have been in the 1920's. My understanding is that the use of flags reflected the major form of communication in the trenches in WW1. Mom's Dad, James, was in signaling in WW1, and used the flags a lot. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Hi, This picture goes with the previous one, showing a "bunkhouse" where the berry pickers stayed while working at the farm. I'm not sure if my grandfather was with them during that time, maybe, or stayed at home continuing to work as a Canada Post mail carrier. He enjoyed that job, but it was hard on him, as he'd suffered damage to his back during WW1. Let me know if you'd like to see this one also. Jim Bundy

Hi, This photo I just scanned has the people mentioned above, sitting on grass at some farm at Hatzic BC, where my family and others went berry picking but seem to have had time for tennis also. Grandma was really great about canning berries, probably got that skill with her family in Glasgow, where in early times her family was listed in the 1871 census and previously as "fruiterers". This picture would have been taken in the late 1920's. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Greetings All Further to my earlier message, it would appear the link I provided to access the 'informed consent' question results on the Statistics Canada website does not work. It seems that it is not possible to go directly to the desired page. Here is how to access the results. Access the home page of Statistics Canada at www.statcan.ca/start.html Click the link for March 13, 2007 and select HTML. Click the link for 'Population and dwelling counts, 2006 Census' Sroll down the page to the paragraph heading 'Release of personal census information after 92 years'. Click the link for 'tabular form'. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, British Columbia Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm

Greetings All. This morning (Tuesday 13 March 2007) Statistics Canada released the first information from the 2006 Census of Canada. This release included information relating to the response to the 'informed consent' question included for the first time in the history of Canadian Censuses. I am not happy, either with the responses given, or the form in which they have been given to the public. You can see these results yourself at http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/reference/infor/gen_results.cfm FYI, I copy below a message sent this evening to my Census contact in Statistics Canada. Gordon A. Watts gordon_watts@telus.net Co-chair, Canada Census Committee Port Coquitlam, British Columbia Read my column, 'Gordon Watts Reports' at http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/authors/authgw.htm ========================================= From: Gordon A. Watts To: Dale.Johnston@statcan.ca Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:33 PM Subject: Statistics re: informed consent in 2006 Census Dear Dale. I have viewed the first results of the 2006 Census of Canada released this morning on the Statistics Canada website. I must state in the most unequivocal terms possible my disappointment in the way response to the so-called 'informed consent' question has been presented. In your email to me of 14 December 2006 you indicated that when released, the response to the 92-year question would be broken down for each geographic area, to those who responded YES, those who responded NO, those who incorrectly responded in more than one way (MULTIPLE RESPONSES), and those who did not respond to the question (left it BLANK). You indicated that numbers would be given for each category of response. In the chart shown on the Statistics Canada website, for each geographic area the number of those who responded YES is given as a percentage. Those who gave MULTIPLE RESPONSES, those who responded NO, and those who left the response BLANK are lumped together as a single percentage. Lumping these categories together fails to give a true picture of the responses to this question. It also fails to consider the number of BLANK responses for those living in 'collective dwellings' where information for the individual being enumerated has been taken from administrative records, thus depriving the individual of the ability to answer the question for themselves. The appearance is that someone in Statistics Canada does not wish a true picture of the response to the 'informed consent' question to be made public. I would greatly appreciate it if you would provide me with the numbers relating to responses to questions 8 and 53, broken down as per information you provided to me in your message of 14 December 2006. While the language of the forms completed is of little importance to me, I would appreciate additional information showing the breakdown of responses to the question on short forms and long forms, similar to that provided to me for the 2004 Test Census. If necessary, I will request such information through Access to Information, but I would prefer not to have to go through that route. While not intended as a personal reflection upon yourself, you are aware it is my considered opinion that Statistics Canada in general, and Dr. Fellegi in particular, failed miserably to live up to promises made to Senate Committees deliberating Bills S-13 and S-18. During those Senate Committee hearings Dr. Fellegi committed that, as Chief Statistician of Canada, he and Statistics Canada would promote and encourage respondents to Census to answer positively to the 'informed consent' question. Had information from the Statistics Canada website, specifically that titled "The 92-year question - Say yes!", been included as an insert with the paper Census questionnaires, we might have considered the promise of Dr. Fellegi to have been fulfilled. As it is however, Statistics Canada receives a less than satisfactory grade for their failure to make known to all respondents to Census the importance of responding positively to questions 8 and 53. The value of Historic Census records for genealogical and historical research has been in the 'completeness' of the records. The overall positive response of less than 56 percent for the 2006 Census falls far short of the 90 percent plus estimate given by Dr. Fellegi to the Senate Committee deliberating Bill S-18. Future research value of the 2006 Census has been destroyed by the 'informed consent' question that genealogists and historians were forced to accept in order to regain access to Historic Census records to which existing legislation already stated our entitlement. More than 45 percent of future genealogists seeking ancestral information from the 2006 Census will be out of luck. Historians will be unable to use Census records to paint an accurate picture of the History of Canada relating to 2006 and later. The legislation enabled by Bill S-18 provides for a review of the effect of the 'informed consent' question after two Censuses had been conducted under it. It may come as no surprise to you that consideration is being given to seeking that review without waiting for the research value of another Census to be destroyed. I look forward to hearing from you again soon. Gordon

Hi, I have another photo that I just scanned with my mother and her sister, along with the Tully family at North Van. Must have been summer, as they're eating watermelon. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy

Hi, In case someone might know them, I've just scanned a picture with grandma and my mother, with a couple, he named Charlie Wadey, and his wife, the former Winnie Pierce of Capilano. In the picture, they were living at Blaine Washington at the time. Let me know if you'd like to see it. Jim Bundy