Hi to Sue, Claudia, Tara, Heather & Malcom. I am responding to you all in this reply if thats OK. First thanks for your responses to my enquiry I was expecting a warm Canadian welcome and was not disapointed, thanks. I live in Cornwall, England but do have fond memories of Canada...when I was a young lad in the 1970's I left Tilbury, UK. on a Polish (Poland) ship heading for Montreal, I was off Gold Mining in the Porcupine Lake (Timmins) area of Ontario..I / we traveled all over Canada and ended up living in Vancouver (Kitsalano) for a couple of years, little did I realise then that I had an ancestor that trod the trail before me! I am 99% certain that the Peter OLLIER in the 1881 Canadian Census is him. His age fits within a couple of years on the Census Record..he is listed as a miner & I have early UK census records of him working in the Quarries in Northen England then he disapears from the UK altogether ie: no marriage record, no more census records and no death record so I think it's him alright. His last sighting was in the UK 1861 census. Now here is the bit that confuses me: The Peter OLLIER that died in Nanaimo V.I. is certainly of the right age...however in the BC voters list of 1875 there are two seperate listings for a Peter OLLIER...the first is for Peter OLLIER of Lightning Creek a Free Miner, the district code is CL which I am almost sure stands for Cariboo / Lightning Creek (as in Barkerville, Wells, Stanley etc) The other listing in the same register for that same year is: Peter OLLIER of Cavan St. Nanaimo, labourer, householder. I am wondering if these two are one of the same ie: worked the Gold Fields and had a house in Nanaimo with the proceeds. Peter OLLIER is also on the Nanaino petion of 1878 also. Have searched the Canadian 1881 Census for a "Nanaimo" Peter OLLIER...nothing has been found. Any comments are welcome. Thanks for reading all of this. BTW Edwin Charles OLLIER death Vancouver...yes he is one of ours he was born in Crewe, Cheshire, England in 1896 have found him crossing the border at Detroit in the 1940's. Best regards to you all. PS would Peter OLLIER have come overland or via sea to the west coast at that time?

Hello, Lawrence and the listers, I feel I'm kind of butting in here, but as I'm from the Island I couldn't help but do so. Nanaimo was of itself a mining town. I grew up in Qualicum Beach. On Empire Day we often drove south to see my aunt Mabel in Chemainus. As we went through Extension, an area near Cedar, my dad always pointed at a field along the highway. It seems that a farmer was going across it with horse and cart, and they fell right down into an old mineshaft. And of course there was the mine on Newcastle Island. The island is now a marine park, and a very nice one too. So Lawrence it is possible that your mining ancestor worked in Nanaimo also. I wonder if anyone has access to mine employee rosters? It might be another line of enquiry. Regards, Laurence Byers Squamish, BC -----Original Message----- From: can-british-columbia-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:can-british-columbia-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lawrence Ollier Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 10:58 AM To: CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] New Lister Peter OLLIER. Hi to Sue, Claudia, Tara, Heather & Malcom. I am responding to you all in this reply if thats OK. First thanks for your responses to my enquiry I was expecting a warm Canadian welcome and was not disapointed, thanks. I live in Cornwall, England but do have fond memories of Canada...when I was a young lad in the 1970's I left Tilbury, UK. on a Polish (Poland) ship heading for Montreal, I was off Gold Mining in the Porcupine Lake (Timmins) area of Ontario..I / we traveled all over Canada and ended up living in Vancouver (Kitsalano) for a couple of years, little did I realise then that I had an ancestor that trod the trail before me! I am 99% certain that the Peter OLLIER in the 1881 Canadian Census is him. His age fits within a couple of years on the Census Record..he is listed as a miner & I have early UK census records of him working in the Quarries in Northen England then he disapears from the UK altogether ie: no marriage record, no more census records and no death record so I think it's him alright. His last sighting was in the UK 1861 census. Now here is the bit that confuses me: The Peter OLLIER that died in Nanaimo V.I. is certainly of the right age...however in the BC voters list of 1875 there are two seperate listings for a Peter OLLIER...the first is for Peter OLLIER of Lightning Creek a Free Miner, the district code is CL which I am almost sure stands for Cariboo / Lightning Creek (as in Barkerville, Wells, Stanley etc) The other listing in the same register for that same year is: Peter OLLIER of Cavan St. Nanaimo, labourer, householder. I am wondering if these two are one of the same ie: worked the Gold Fields and had a house in Nanaimo with the proceeds. Peter OLLIER is also on the Nanaino petion of 1878 also. Have searched the Canadian 1881 Census for a "Nanaimo" Peter OLLIER...nothing has been found. Any comments are welcome. Thanks for reading all of this. BTW Edwin Charles OLLIER death Vancouver...yes he is one of ours he was born in Crewe, Cheshire, England in 1896 have found him crossing the border at Detroit in the 1940's. Best regards to you all. PS would Peter OLLIER have come overland or via sea to the west coast at that time? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Laurence, yes thanks for your input it has been verified by another kind lister on Vancouver Island that Peter OLLIER did indeed work the No:1 shaft at the Vancouver Coal Co. Mine at Nanaimo towards the end of his life, he died in 1886 only a year before the tragic death of most of the miners in the great explosion of 1887. I am thinking that his first venture was at Lightning Creek during as you say the earlier period, from what I have read so far it is possible that he and many others might have had an assisted passage...Next job is to tried and find him in a ships list somewhere but no luck yet. Many thanks to all who have helped me so far with a special thanks to Elizabeth. Best regards to you all. Lawrence. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurence Byers" <laudea@shaw.ca> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA@rootsweb.com> Cc: "'Lawrence Ollier'" <lorenzo.9@talk21.com> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:55 PM Subject: RE: [CAN-BC] New Lister Peter OLLIER. > Hello, Lawrence and the listers, > I feel I'm kind of butting in here, but as I'm from the Island I > couldn't help but do so. > Nanaimo was of itself a mining town. I grew up in Qualicum > Beach. On Empire Day we often drove south to see my aunt Mabel in > Chemainus. As we went through Extension, an area near Cedar, my dad > always pointed at a field along the highway. It seems that a farmer was > going across it with horse and cart, and they fell right down into an > old mineshaft. And of course there was the mine on Newcastle Island. The > island is now a marine park, and a very nice one too. > So Lawrence it is possible that your mining ancestor worked in > Nanaimo also. I wonder if anyone has access to mine employee rosters? It > might be another line of enquiry. > > Regards, > Laurence Byers > Squamish, BC > > -----Original Message----- > From: can-british-columbia-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:can-british-columbia-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Lawrence > Ollier > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 10:58 AM > To: CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CAN-BC] New Lister Peter OLLIER. > > Hi to Sue, Claudia, Tara, Heather & Malcom. I am responding to you all > in this reply if thats OK. > First thanks for your responses to my enquiry I was expecting a warm > Canadian welcome and was not disapointed, thanks. > I live in Cornwall, England but do have fond memories of Canada...when I > was a young lad in the 1970's I left Tilbury, UK. on a Polish (Poland) > ship heading for Montreal, I was off Gold Mining in the Porcupine Lake > (Timmins) area of Ontario..I / we traveled all over Canada and ended up > living in Vancouver (Kitsalano) for a couple of years, little did I > realise then that I had an ancestor that trod the trail before me! > I am 99% certain that the Peter OLLIER in the 1881 Canadian Census is > him. His age fits within a couple of years on the Census Record..he is > listed as a miner & I have early UK census records of him working in the > Quarries in Northen England then he disapears from the UK altogether ie: > no marriage record, no more census records and no death record so I > think it's him alright. His last sighting was in the UK 1861 census. > > Now here is the bit that confuses me: > > The Peter OLLIER that died in Nanaimo V.I. is certainly of the right > age...however in the BC voters list of 1875 there are two seperate > listings for a Peter OLLIER...the first is for Peter OLLIER of Lightning > Creek a Free Miner, the district code is CL which I am almost sure > stands for Cariboo / Lightning Creek (as in Barkerville, Wells, Stanley > etc) > The other listing in the same register for that same year is: > Peter OLLIER of Cavan St. Nanaimo, labourer, householder. > > I am wondering if these two are one of the same ie: worked the Gold > Fields and had a house in Nanaimo with the proceeds. > Peter OLLIER is also on the Nanaino petion of 1878 also. > > Have searched the Canadian 1881 Census for a "Nanaimo" Peter > OLLIER...nothing has been found. > > Any comments are welcome. > > Thanks for reading all of this. > > BTW Edwin Charles OLLIER death Vancouver...yes he is one of ours he was > born in Crewe, Cheshire, England in 1896 have found him crossing the > border at Detroit in the 1940's. > > Best regards to you all. > > PS would Peter OLLIER have come overland or via sea to the west coast at > that time? > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >