Hi Maureen, There should be obits in the Victoria papers - The Provincial Archive will have the papers - Vancouver Public Library also has some of the Victoria papers - but not all years or issues. There may be some list members who can search Victoria - I don't know anyone other than myself who searches for obits (In Vancouver ) The Provincial Archive should have information. Check with Alaska - Juneau Alaska - Museum - Historical Society - Newspapers etc. I can't seem to access my internet connection right now. otherwise I would make a search. There are probably many books - in Libraries - bookstores - universities etc. http://www.nickmessinger.co.uk/islander.html http://mmbc.bc.ca/sn97/passenger/p4a.html The following mentions 16 records - ???? http://www.gold-rush.org/pan/canadian.htm ? http://www.maritimemall.net/shipproj.html http://www.juneau.com/capitalsites/1996.SHTML http://arcticculture.about.com/culture/arcticculture/cs/scubadiving/index_2.htm http://alaska.dns2go.com/archives/week_of_08-05-96/juneau_news_08-09-96.html http://www.yoretreasures.com/lost.html http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/wreck-am.htm At 02:25 PM 6/22/01 -0700, Maureen Clarke wrote: >Thanks for all the tips I've been getting. Peter >Warren Wentworth Bell who died in 1944 was the eldest >son of Peter Warren Wentworth Bell, born 1831, and his >wife, Ellen Sarah Dupont. The second son, Jack, was a >rugby and hockey player and worked for the Canadian >Bank of Commerce in Winnipeg and Dawson City. Did he >marry and have a family? >A third son, name unknown to me, worked for the >Southern Pacific Railway in California. One daughter >married a Colonel Pemberton of Victoria. I need their >Christian names. A second daughter, Ellen Bell, >resided with her mother. > >Peter W W Bell, Senior, was drowned in the early >morning of August 15, 1901 (not about 1915) when the >SS Islander was wrecked off Juneau, Alaska. Bell was >returning home after a visit to Dawson City and >Stewart River, Yukon. Where would I find info re the >SS Islander? Thank you. >Would there be obits in the Victoria paper(s) of 1901? > >Maureen Clarke > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== >Check the list's archives out at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html

Hi Stella and list, I am getting to be reasonably skilled at finding obituaries but they do take a lot longer to look up than BDMs, at least for me. When I go up to Simon Fraser University to get BDM copies for people, I look up obits, if I have the time and energy at the end of my BDM copying. SFU has the major Vancouver papers, as well as the Victoria Times-Colonist and several of the bigger Canadian and US papers and some international ones- New York Times, etc.- on microfilm. I don't have the time to do any lookups in non-BC papers for people, but will try the BC ones, if you give me a death date, and promise to wait patiently! :-) Pam Stella Stanger wrote: > > Hi Maureen, There should be obits in the Victoria papers - The Provincial > Archive will have the papers - Vancouver Public Library also has some of > the Victoria papers - but not all years or issues. There may be some list > members who can search Victoria - I don't know anyone other than myself who > searches for obits (In Vancouver ) > The Provincial Archive should have information. > Check with Alaska - Juneau Alaska - Museum - Historical Society - > Newspapers etc. I can't seem to access my internet connection right > now. otherwise I would make a search. > There are probably many books - in Libraries - bookstores - universities etc. > http://www.nickmessinger.co.uk/islander.html > http://mmbc.bc.ca/sn97/passenger/p4a.html > The following mentions 16 records - ???? > http://www.gold-rush.org/pan/canadian.htm > ? > http://www.maritimemall.net/shipproj.html > http://www.juneau.com/capitalsites/1996.SHTML > http://arcticculture.about.com/culture/arcticculture/cs/scubadiving/index_2.htm > http://alaska.dns2go.com/archives/week_of_08-05-96/juneau_news_08-09-96.html > http://www.yoretreasures.com/lost.html > http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/wreck-am.htm > > At 02:25 PM 6/22/01 -0700, Maureen Clarke wrote: > >Thanks for all the tips I've been getting. Peter > >Warren Wentworth Bell who died in 1944 was the eldest > >son of Peter Warren Wentworth Bell, born 1831, and his > >wife, Ellen Sarah Dupont. The second son, Jack, was a > >rugby and hockey player and worked for the Canadian > >Bank of Commerce in Winnipeg and Dawson City. Did he > >marry and have a family? > >A third son, name unknown to me, worked for the > >Southern Pacific Railway in California. One daughter > >married a Colonel Pemberton of Victoria. I need their > >Christian names. A second daughter, Ellen Bell, > >resided with her mother. > > > >Peter W W Bell, Senior, was drowned in the early > >morning of August 15, 1901 (not about 1915) when the > >SS Islander was wrecked off Juneau, Alaska. Bell was > >returning home after a visit to Dawson City and > >Stewart River, Yukon. Where would I find info re the > >SS Islander? Thank you. > >Would there be obits in the Victoria paper(s) of 1901? > > > >Maureen Clarke > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > > > >==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > >Check the list's archives out at > >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/CAN/CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA.html > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at > http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes > These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. -- Pam Fairweather Thomson in BC, Canada Researching Fairweather & Todrick mailto:pamthom@intergate.ca

I have the following three wills that I would like to have copies of......is anyone on the list available to copy them? Please let me know cost etc. B09560 129/1912 B09566 765/1924 B09573 1340/1942 Thanks for your time!!! Del.C.

If you contact them directly they will send them to you, for a very small price. If the wills are one pagers they may even send them to you without any charge, with a note "complimentary....bla bla bla" reg Viv in Vancouver ----- Original Message ----- From: "Del. Christien" <bc_fam@br.monarch.net> To: <CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 8:09 PM Subject: [CAN-BC] Look up in Victoria Archives for (3) wills...... > I have the following three wills that I would like to have copies > of......is anyone on the list available to copy them? Please let me know > cost etc. > > B09560 129/1912 > > B09566 765/1924 > > B09573 1340/1942 > > Thanks for your time!!! > Del.C. > > > > > ==== CAN-BRITISH-COLUMBIA Mailing List ==== > To New Subscribers : The online indexes to British Columbia Vital Records are at > http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes > These records are freely available and there are several possibilities for accessing them at a low cost. > >