Hi Lorri, Youbou is pronounced "yoo bo" because it was named after Yount and Boulton. It's a former milltown, near the town of Lake Cowichan, on Cowichan Lake. Fortunately for Youbou, it's still in a very beautiful area, so it's leaning towards tourism now that the lumber mill is closed and the giant trees are mostly gone. So you'd be looking for a Lake Cowichan paper, which would be found at BC Archives, and possibly you could look in Lake Cowichan too. There's a museum there and historical society. Kaatza Station Museum http://cowichanlake.ca/index.php?page=museum.htm Unfortunately, a search at the BC Archives website shows no newspaper for Lake Cowichan in the period you want. (May or may not have been one, but they don't have any on microfilm from that period now.) You could also try searching in the Duncan newspaper, which is a pretty good bet, because Duncan is the next bigger town along the Cowichan Valley, and they had a reliable weekly that covered news in the whole valley. This is all on lower Vancouver Island, if you're looking for it on a map. http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-27A60F7/library/newspapr/bcarch/arch_ d.htm DUNCAN Cowichan leader. -- Filmed LLBC 53reels 1905:May 5 - 1985:May 23 Amalgamated with Cowichan news 1985:May 28 Continued by Cowichan news leader (Duncan, BC) http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-27A60F7/library/newspapr/bcarch/arch_ l.htm LAKE COWICHAN Lake Cowichan bulletin. -- 4 reels 1947:Jan 2 - 1951:Mar 15 Lake Cowichan gazette. -- Filmed LLBC 1 reel 1995:Jun 14 (v.1:n.1) - 1995:Dec 27 Lake Cowichan herald. -- 1 reel 1965:Jul 1 - 1965:Oct 7 Lake news. -- Last filmed LLBC 1995 29 reels 1966:Jul 7 - 1995:Dec 31 If you are trying for the Cowichan Leader, you might find it exists in microform in the Duncan Library, worth checking. Ask Barbara, at the Kaatza Station Museum in Lake Cowichan, if there are any old 1950s newletters for the Youbou area in her museum. You can't get a loan of anything that's held at BC Archives, so if that's your only source, the obit search would have to be done by a volunteer in Victoria; but if the microfilms exist in a public library, you could get the needed reel by interlibrary loan. I suspect with the age of this man, 92, there would be a bit of a write-up about him in the weekly newspaper, when he died, particularly if he lived in the area for a long time. Claudia Claudia Cole Independent Research Agent 304 - 1960 Lee Avenue Victoria BC V8R 4W8 Canada 250 598-7859 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Eric Beger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CAN-BC] Preston in YouBou Researching George Preston Family Please could some one help me find an Obit? I have a William Sylvester Preston died in YouBow 11 April 1954. I need to know where, what news paper to look in. Thanks in advance Lorri -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.2 - Release Date: 1/21/05 ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== Check the list's archives out at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.2 - Release Date: 1/21/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.2 - Release Date: 1/21/2005