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Abbott, Harry (family)
Family

Harry Abbott was the general superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.

Acreman (family)
Family

John and Ethel Acreman were married in 1915 and resided in Esquimalt, B.C. John Acreman was Esquimalt's Chief of Police from 1926 to 1930.

Aitken (family)
Family

The Aitken family has lived in Nanaimo since the late 1800s. As a young man, Thomas Morrison Aitken was a baker's assistant but later became a coal miner. Thomas married Mary Margaret Greenwell on October 1, 1902. Their son, Isaac, was also a miner. Thomas died in Nanaimo on November 19, 1952 at the age of 73. Mary died on January 21, 1966 at the age of 80.

Albert E. Wood Family
Family · 1908 - 1979

Albert "Bert" Edward Wood was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on February 17, 1908. His family came to Prince Rupert in 1920 for his father to pursue an occupation as a fisherman. The family lived at 860 Summit Avenue and Albert attended Borden Street School. Due to the low price of fish, the family went back to Scotland in 1922 but Bert returned to Prince Rupert in 1926 and was hired at the Canadian National Railway as a stenographer. He worked for the CNR until his retirement in 1968. On March 2, 1932 he married Mary "Marguerite" Martin in Smithers, B.C. Marguerite was born in Everett, Washington on January 23, 1908. Her family moved to Montana, Alberta and eventually settled in Terrace where she finished high school. Marguerite graduated on January 27, 1930 from the Prince Rupert Hospital School of Nursing. The Woods had two children: Grace (Schmidt) and James. Bert was a member of the Masons, Tyee Lodge Number 66, and Marguerite was a member of Centennial Rebekah Lodge, Belist Chapter OES. Albert died in Prince Rupert on December 16, 1979 at the age 71 and Marguerite died in Prince Rupert on April 4, 2000 at age of 92. Bert's sister, Margaret, remained in Prince Rupert, marrying Thomas Clwydd Williams on June 11, 1925. The couple lived in Stewart for six years before Thomas died in Prince Rupert on November 29, 1948 at the age of 72. Margaret remained in Stewart and married George Lewin Maddrell, a manager for Northern B.C. Power Company Ltd. in Stewart, B.C. He died on November 16, 1970 in Prince Rupert at age 77 and Margaret died in Prince Rupert on March 28, l976 at the age of 81.

Alexander (family)
Family

Charles Alexander was born in St. Louis, USA, on August 16, 1824 and came to Victoria with his wife Nancy in 1858. The Alexanders were among the first black families to arrive in the Victoria area and they remained in the region for the rest of their lives. The Alexanders had a total of 12 children and numerous grandchildren before Nancy's death in 1911 and Charles' death in 1913. Thomas Alexander was the Alexander's fourth child and was born in 1859. Thomas and his wife Corinthia had seven children, the youngest of which was Barton. Thomas worked as a trucker for most of his life, a profession that several of his children would continue in the firm T. Alexander and Sons.

Allcock (family)
Family

E. H. (Bert) Allcock was born on August 31, 1887 in Birmingham, England. He sailed to Eastern Canada on June 2, 1909, made his way to the prairies and obtained work on a farm in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. For the next few years he worked various jobs, including building roadbed for the Grand Trunk Railroad, driving freight teams and cooking for a railroad construction crew. In 1914 Bert made his way to South Fort George and purchased property near Strathnaver to homestead. The first winter was spent clearing land, building fences and preparing logs for the house and barn to be built in the spring. Bert went to work for the Provincial Government, first constructing highway grade and then working on a bridge building crew. By the fall of 1918 he was cutting right-of-way for the Public Works Department, then assisted in dismantling and relocating the same bridge constructed two year earlier. In 1919 Bert bought a two room house on two fenced lots with a well in Quesnel for $400. Soon after, he obtained more homesteading land in the Cottonwood area along the Fraser River. He then purchased a team of Percherons and soon had Government contracts to pull stumps on right-of-ways, to grade the Cariboo Highway, for bridge work and preparation work for the P.G.E. roadbed, as well as a contract to reinforce the Quesnel Lake Dam. Bert spent as much time as he could at his homestead, however; was so busy with contracts that he had to hire two men to clear land for him. Between 1922 and 1925 a one-room frame bungalow was erected, fence poles were cut, the access road was improved, the barn was given a sheet metal roof and a 25 by 60 foot hay shed was built. Fred continued rebuilding and improving roads and in 1926 contracted for the dirt approaches to the new Quesnel River Bridge. Miss Dorothy Simpson, who was to open a new school at Strathnaver, arrived on the P.G.E. in September, 1929. Bert met and courted her. They were married on July 3, 1931. The couple had five children. In 1934 Bert had a crew working for him on the Barkerville Road. He was appointed General Foreman for the North Cariboo District and earned a salary of $150 per month. Dorothy continued to teach. In 1941 Bert was transferred to the Lillooet district, where he worked until retirement in 1952. At that time they moved to Victoria, Dorothy's hometown, where their remaining four children were educated. Dorothy was successful in securing a teaching position at Gordon Head. She continued teaching for a few years after Bert's retirement while their children completed their education.

Allison (family)
Family

The Allison family were pioneer ranchers in the Similkameen Valley of B.C.

Allwood (family)
Family

Frank Allwood was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, in 1889. After he graduated in engineering from McGill University, he worked for the Dominion Government, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the City of Revelstoke. He served in the Canadian Army between 1914 and 1919. Frank Allwood married Eileen Barry in Cambridge, England, in 1918. He became a B.C. Land Surveyor in 1920 and was resident engineer during construction of the Johnson Street Bridge in Victoria. Between 1919 and 1927, Frank and Eileen Allwood produced and acted in plays and musicals in the Pantages Theatre. He later returned to engineering and surveying, especially in the Bridge River and Revelstoke areas. As President of the Revelstoke Board of Trade, he helped organize the Big Bend Highway Association to promote completion of that highway link. Allwood later moved to Kelowna where he opened a survey office and was appointed City Engineer of Enderby. He died in Kelowna in 1946. Eileen Allwood later moved to Parksville.

Altman (family)
Family · ca. 1943 - ca. 2001

Hy and Bess Altman were active in a variety of Jewish organizations in Vancouver from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. They also raised money for Israeli institutions and won recognitions for doing so.

Alvey (family)
Family · [approx. 1850]-

The Alvey family emigrated from Stralsund, Germany to the United States in the late 1870s. Frederich Alvey (d. 1920) and Sophia Alvey (née Ott, d. 1925) had two children together: William James Alvey (1881-1920) and Ernest Alvey (1883-1974).

William James Alvey served in the United States Army, having enlisted in 1897 and served in the Spanish-American war and the Philippine-American war. En route home to Detroit, he travelled through Seattle, where he worked as a motorman on a cable car, then at the Seattle Police Department. In Seattle he met Eva L. Berneche (1885-1956), a descendant of French Canadians who came west during the gold rush era. William and Eva had two children: Melvin Gerard Alvey (1902-1964) and A. Alexis Alvey (1903-1996). Following the death of her husband, Eva (Richards) worked as a nurse and teacher in Wainwright, Alaska; she published a memoir of her time in the arctic, Arctic Mood: A Narrative of Arctic Adventures (1949).

Melvin Alvey was a lifelong seafarer, and had a long career as a coast guard, stationed at several locations in the Pacific northwest. Together with his wife Edna M. Huntley, he had three children: William Jerard Alvey (b. 1924), Charlene Alvey, and Huntley Darnell Alvey.

A. Alexis Alvey was born in Seattle and attended McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She led a distinguished career with the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (W.R.C.N.S.) during the Second World War, having been selected as one of first class of that body, and she served as an officer on several naval bases across Canada.

Ernest Alvey was a seaman in the United States Navy, and served in the Spanish-American war. He later worked as an upholsterer, and retired as a Master Craftsman at General Motors. He married Aileen Casey (1884-1971), an Irish immigrant, and had a son, Maurice Francis Alvey (1903-1985). Maurice married Margaret E. Turban (b. 1911) and had two children: Robert Maurice Alvey (b. 1962) and Maureen Katharine Alvey (b. 1946).

Anderson (family)
Family · [ca. 1880] -

The Carnwath family was one of Vancouver's early families. Charles H. Carnwath, originally from New Brunswick, lived in Vancouver from the 1880s and owned one of the first lumber companies in the city. Charles' wife, Phoebe Stewart, was from San Francisco. Charlotte Ferne Carnwath, one of their five daughters married William Scott Anderson, a CPR Ticket Office Clerk, and son of William and Matilda Anderson, also early Vancouver residents who originally came from the Barony in New Brunswick. Charlotte and William resided at 5463 Larch Street.

Anderson, Eric (family)
Family · 1914 -

Eric Percival Anderson was born in Richmond on February 11, 1914. His father, G.H. Anderson moved to Richmond from England with his wife, Lucy, at the beginning of the 20th century. The couple lived on Bennett Road, and G.H. Anderson worked as a brick contractor. In 1910, he established the masonry business G.H. Anderson and Sons. Eric Anderson attended school in Richmond with his older brother, Henry, and younger sister, Eunice. In the late 1920s, he began working with his father and brother in the family business. The brothers later ran the business together, until Henry Anderson was elected Reeve of Richmond in 1960, at which time he became a silent partner in the business as Eric took over its operation. Eric Anderson married Hilda Emily May Skuse (born May 15, 1915). Hilda Skuse's parents, Herb and Emily Skuse, owned Skuse's Shoes on No. 3 Road, and Hilda attended school with Eric and Henry Anderson's sister, Eunice. Hilda had two brothers, Art and Herb. Eric and Hilda Anderson had four children, and were both very involved in community life. Both were active in the Richmond Lions Club, and Eric Anderson served as a volunteer fire fighter, acted as campaign manager for his brother, and was instrumental in establishing a baseball league at Brighouse Park. In the mid-to-late 1950's, Eric developed an interest in owning racehorses, and, with Hilda's brother Art and his wife Lexie, bought two thoroughbred horses, Mariontex and August Morn. Eric Anderson died August 29, 1992. Hilda Anderson died January 24, 2001.

Anderson, J. Gunnard
Family · 1900 - 1978

John Gunnard Anderson was born in Malemberget Sweden on 1 October, 1900 and came to Canada ca. 1906. He was the son of Valfrid (Wilfred) Anderson and Elin (Ellen) Erika Nyberg. Wilfred and Ellen's children were John Gunnard, Leonard, and Gertrude. Wilfred worked as a powder monkey in the Anyox mine until he was gassed and developed yellow jaundice. His son Gunnard rode a mail horse to the mine. Wilfred died ca. 1917 in Vancouver. Ellen and the children returned to Prince Rupert where she worked at the Pioneer Laundry and Gunnard worked for the BC Power Company. Gunnard married Olga Johnsen in Prince Rupert on 21 December 1921 and had two daughters, Signe and Elenor. Gunner remarried in 1930 to Elizabeth Andrew Ross who was from Ayre, Scotland. In 1938, Gunnard and his partner Lee Gordon started a hardware store called Gordon and Anderson. Gunnard and Elizabeth had two sons, J. Ross (1936- ) and James (Jim) Bryce (1938-2002). Ross married Nancy Ann Smythe and had three children: Linda Lee, John Gunnard, James Robert. Jim married Andrea Hansen and had three children: Leah, Kirsten, Mark.

Andrew (family)
Family

Geoffrey Andrew was Dean and Deputy President of the University of British Columbia from 1947 until leaving to become Executive Director of the A.U.C.C. in Ottawa. Margaret Andrew was a graduate of economics, social work and librarianship. The Andrews were close friends of Ethel Wilson.

Angus (family)
University of British Columbia Archives · Family

Henry Forbes Angus (1891-1991) was born in Victoria, B.C. While attending high school, he also spent part of the 1906-07 school year at the Lycee Descartes in France. He graduated from McGill University in 1911, and then in 1914, he went to Oxford University. His studies were interrupted by war service, but he returned to Oxford after the war and obtained his MA in 1919. In 1919 Angus joined the University of British Columbia faculty as an assistant professor of Economics. From 1930 to 1956, he served as head of the Dept. of Economics, Political Science and Sociology. Angus was also a Dean of Graduate Studies from 1949 to 1956. Among his many roles and responsibilities, he was also a member of the Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-Provincial relations, a member of the Royal Commission on Transportation, and Chairman of the Public Utilities of B.C. From 1940 to 1945, Angus was seconded to work in the Canadian Department of External Affairs. He also worked for full rights for Japanese-Canadians in the inter-war years and vigorously opposed their incarceration and suspension of rights during the Second World War.
Annie M. Angus (wife of Henry Angus) was formerly a Trustee and Chairman of the Vancouver School Board and a volunteer worker. Other family members include Henry Dunckley (Angus' grandfather), who was editor of the Manchester Examiner Times (1855-1889), William H. Dunckley (his uncle) and Mary E. Angus (his mother).

Annandale (family)
Family

The Annandale family, whose descendants lived in Victoria, were paper manufacturers in England.

Family · 1952-

Archibald ("Arch") Greenaway was ordained by BC Conference in 1952 and was settled to Grace United Church in Lax Kw'alaams (or, Port Simpson, as it was then called). He later served in pastoral ministry and as hospital chaplain in Saskatchewan, returning to Vancouver in 1977 as a minister at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church. He died in 1979.

Kristine Greenaway, daughter of Arch and Anita, was born at Lax Kw'alaams, B.C. in 1953.

Arman (family)
Family

Guiseppina Tognini (spelled Fognini on some documents) was born in the Province of di Sondrio in Italy in 1888. She married miner Steven Arman of Tovo, Italy in Nanaimo in 1912.

Armstrong (family)
Family

The Armstrong family were owners of the Keremeos Land Company, which was the major land development company in Keremeos in the Similkameen Valley.