Gerald: If this chap worked in the motor pool, he probably was with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps. Check the Department of National Defence Website or see if there is an RCASC website - place a query to there. In Germany in the 50's, he could have been posted to either Werl, Soest, Hemer (or if attached to the Air Force) Lahr, West Germany. Also check if there is a CFB Chilliwack website. He would have received his training in CFB Borden in Ontario check for that website. Hope that helps. Jim [email protected] wrote: > Subject: > Garnet "Steve" STEPHENSON Ontario > Chilliwack, BC > From: > "Gerald Cronkwright" <[email protected]> > Date: > Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:06:32 -0500 > To: > [email protected] > > To: > [email protected] > > >I am searching for any information (newspaper clippings, vital records sources, obituaries, tombstones inscriptions, etc.) or corespondence with friends and relatives who knew about my uncle Garnet "Steve" Stephenson b. 27 Jul 1927 in Middlesex Cty near Arkona, Watford & Strathroy, Ontario areas. He lived (intermittently between 1960's to 1990's in Ontario & BC but most of this time it was in BC) and died in the Chilliwack, BC area probably in the early to mid 1990's. > >He was married to my aunt Ella Frances Patience b. 7 Dec 1926 in Thamesford, Oxford Cty, Ontario d. 3 Jan 1986 probably in Chilliwack, BC; on 21 Jan 1949 in Arkona, Middlesex Cty, Ontario. > >He was an officer in the Royal Canadian Army and they spent most of the 1950's posted somewhere in West Germany. When they returned to Canada in the early 1960's they moved out to Chilliwack, BC for about 5 years and then they returned to live in London, Ontario for a couple of years where he worked at a Beaver Oil Gas Station and Towlands Road Construction as a mechanic and then they farmed for a short time near Watford, Ontario before they returned to BC again. > >While in BC I think that he worked most of the time as a mechanic servicing heavy road constuction equipment. At some point he suffered from an accident where he had one of his legs amputated and therefore he retired prematurely. My aunt Ella worked as a cook and domestic in the hotel industry for most of her life before dying prematurely of brain cancer. They had no children together. > >I believe that my uncle Steve\'s father was an OPP or town police constable in the Arkona, Middlesex Cty, ON area and I would like to find out more about his mother and father and siblings ancestry. >I would also like to find out and confirm the death dates and places of both my aunt and uncle in the Chilliwack, BC area. > >I need a volunteer(s) to try and find any information (newspaper clippings, vital records sources, obituaries, tombstones inscriptions, etc.) about Garnet (Steve) & Ella (Patience) Stephenson while they lived in BC from approx. 1960's - 1990's. I was thinking that establishing contact with the chief or head Librarian at the local Chilliwack Public Library to perform a surname or card catalogue search would be a good starting point. > >Any help with answers to the above matters will be greatly appreciated! > >