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