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Craft (family)
Family

George and Laura Craft were residents of Needles, B.C. George Craft worked as a postmaster and farmer. He received large amounts of land through the Soldiers' Settlement Board.

Bullock (family)
Family

Reginald Bullock (1905-1979) was a boilermaker by trade and worked at Wallace Shipyards and Burrard Drydocks in Vancouver. He was active in his own union and with various political parties espousing the socialist cause including the CCF, the League for Socialist Action, and the Socialist Workers Party. The Bullocks were expelled from the NDP in the 1960s. Ruth Bullock met her husband in 1938. She was active in the socialist movement and as an advocate for human rights. A thesis was written about her by Heather McLeod entitled "'Not Another God-Damned Housewife': Ruth Bullock, The 'Woman Question' and Canadian Trotskyism", Simon Fraser University, 1993.

Langley (family)
Family

John Langley married Edith Kidner in England in 1879. In 1888 they moved to Port Arthur, Ontario where they and their two daughters, Celia and Winnie, lived for a few years. In 1891 the family moved to B.C. where Langley worked as a farmer in the Abbotsford area until his death in 1919.

Inouye (family)
Family · 1883-2009

For details on Inouye Family, see authority records of the following Inouye family members:
Morikawa, Jitsuo
Inouye, Hatsuno
Inouye, Beverly
Inouye, Zennosuke

Brayshaw (family)
Family

The Brayshaw family has a long history, tracing back to 1379, with a large portion of their lineage found in the Yorkshire area of England. This includes a notable relation to the Giggleswick parish and School, including the Brayshaw Library at Giggleswick School, where generations of the Brayshaws were educated.

Of the more recent family represented in this fonds is Thomas Brayshaw (1854 – 1931), located in Stackhouse, who was employed in the legal profession and served as a governor for the Giggleswick school. He was an avid historian of the Settle area, and published on the topic. His son, Thomas Brayshaw (1886 to 1967), was born in Settle, Yorkshire. He served in World Wars I and II, moved to Canada in 1911, and became a well-known sport fisherman who studied and illustrated fish in multiple publications. His son, T. C. Brayshaw (1919-2014), was born in Yorkshire but lived most of his life in Canada, where he was a botanist.

Bamford (family)
Family · 1889-2003, predominant 1910-2003

William Bamford (b. 3 June 1826) was born in England and immigrated to Canada in 1860. On 26 August 1862, Bamford married Lydia Ann Blackley in Belleville, Ontario. Blackley was a descendent of American Loyalists who fled Boston, Massachusetts, in 1785 and settled in Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario. William Bamford and Lydia Blackley lived in Ancaster and Burlington, Ontario, where Bamford worked as a manufacturer and later as a store keeper and merchant. The couple had three sons that lived to adulthood: William Blackley Bamford; Charles Harry Sydney Bamford, who became the director of Ashdown Hardware Company; and Thomas Henry Lord Bamford, who was a merchant of the firm of Hicks and Bamford.

William Blackley Bamford (10 Sept. 1863-29 Aug. 1946) was a railroader, beginning his career in 1880 as a telegraph operator. In 1889, he married Henrietta Odell in in Sherbrooke, Quebec, and had at least one son, William Blackley Stanley Bamford, and one daughter, Florence Odell Bamford (d. 7 July 1918). Bamford served as a Canadian Pacific Railway operator, station agent, and later traveling freight agent and district freight agent in several Ontario cities and towns. He moved to St. John, New Brunswick, in 1910 to act as a division freight agent before returning to Ontario in 1916. In 1920 he was transferred to the Kootenay and Boundary Division at Nelson, British Columbia. Bamford’s retirement from the CPR became effective 31 December 1928 after 48 years as a railroader.

William Blackley Stanley Bamford (24 Jan. 1890-9 Oct. 1966) was born in Elora, Ontario, and enjoyed a long career in the banking industry. In 1908, he secured his first position with the Traders Bank of Canada in Tweed, Ontario, and in 1917, he obtained a job as a temporary clerk with the Bank of Montreal. He continued with the company in various roles and through a transfer to Vancouver, British Columbia, until his retirement in April 1952. Bamford married Amy Lauretta Huestis on 26 December 1929 at St. Mark’s Church in Vancouver. The couple had one son, William Huestis Bamford.

William Huestis Bamford (17 Sept. 1930- ) was at born in, Vancouver, British Columbia. After completing his schooling in Vancouver, Bamford worked briefly in the British Columbia forestry sector before joining the Canadian Army. Bamford acted as a driver mechanic, attaining the rank of Lance Corporal, and spent one year overseas in Korea before leaving the service in April 1954. Bamford then worked briefly as a taxi driver before becoming an employee of Canada Post in June 1956. Bamford served as a letter carrier and later as a supervisory letter carrier in Richmond and Vancouver until his retirement. Bamford married Esther Adelina Lasell Blyth in July 1957 in Vancouver. Bamford was step-father to his wife’s four children from a prior marriage: Lynne, Sharon, Roy, and Verne.

William Blackley Bamford, William Blackley Stanley Bamford, and William Huestis Bamford were all avid diarist and kept line-a-day or page-a-day diaries for most of their adult lives.

Bush (family)
Family · 1889-2015

George William Trayton (W.T.) Bush was born in Camberwell (London), England in 1889. In 1910, George immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada, where he was soon employed by the Dominion Express Company (later called the Canadian Pacific Express Company) as a traffic solicitor. He fought in the First World War, serving in the Canadian 1st Division for three and a half years. On January 19, 1922, George married Pearl Mee and settled in Vancouver. The couple’s son, Patrick George Seymour Bush, was born in 1932. George continued working at Canadian Pacific Express, retiring in 1949. At the time of his retirement, he owned two apartment blocks in Vancouver.

Pearl Mee was born in 1898. Pearl was the second child of Charles Mee and Annie Mee (née Seymour), early settlers in North Vancouver. After her marriage, Pearl did not work outside of her home.

Patrick George Seymour Bush studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree in May 1958.
George, Pearl, and Patrick Bush are now deceased, dying in May of 1965, March of 1996, and August of 2015, respectively.

Humbird (family)
Family

The Humbird family was prominent in the lumber business from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, first in the mid-western United States, and then in the western United States and British Columbia. The son of Jacob Humbird, a builder of railroads in South America, John A. Humbird was a shareholder in the Victoria Lumber and Manufacturing Company of Chemainus, British Columbia. The company was incorporated in 1889 and dissolved in 1950.

Humbird, who had interests in several companies, formed various partnerships with Frederick Weyerhauser; this included partnerships involving the White River Lumber Company in Mason, Wisconsin, and the Sand Point Lumber Company in Sandpoint, Idaho, and the creation of the Clearwater Timber Company, also in Idaho, in 1900. The Sand Point Lumber Company was combined with the lumber holdings of Edward Rutledge in December 1900 to form the core of a new business, the Humbird Lumber Company.

Humbird's son Thomas J. Humbird became manager of the company in 1902 and was involved in the operations of several mills, including the Sand Point mill. His son, John A. Humbird (grandson of the original John A.), continued the family tradition and was one of the key figures in the development of the Seaboard Lumber Sales Company, Limited of British Columbia in 1935.

Bulwer (family)
Family

Biographical information unavailable.

Turnour (family)
Family

The Turnour family traces its lineage to Sir Edward Turnour (d. 1675) a lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons and Solicitor General in the Reign of Charles II. The first Earl of Winterton was Sir Edward's grandson, Edward Turnour Garth, elevated to the peerage in 1761. The family held extensive estates in England and Ireland.

Sturges (family)
Family

Biographical information unavailable.

Farris (family)
Family · 1878-2004

The Farris family was considered a prominent family in the Vancouver area, producing distinguished lawyers and scholars over several generations. The patriarch, John Wallace de Beque Farris (1878–1970) was a successful lawyer in Vancouver and an active member of the Canadian Bar Association. Farris was also active in politics throughout his life, and acted as the Liberal MLA for Vancouver, the Attorney General and Minister of Labour, and was called to the Senate in 1937. Evlyn Fenwick Farris (1878-1971) was a scholar and advocate for continuing education and women's rights. She was the founder of the first University Women's Club of Vancouver, and was elected to the Senate of the University of British Columbia. These eminent positions afforded the Farris family an elevated station in their community, and the opportunity to associate with families not only in the Vancouver elite, but with other prominent Canadians.

John Wallace and Evlyn married in 1905, and had four children, Katherine Hay, Donald Fenwick, Ralph Keirstead, and John Lauchlan. The Farris family's prestige also contributed to the success of their children. Evlyn and John Wallace's son, John Lauchlan Farris (1911-1986) was well-known as the Chief Justice of British Columbia, and was a Harvard Law School graduate. After being called to the bar in British Columbia in 1935, he had a successful legal career and became a leading litigation counsel in Vancouver. Dorothy Beatrice Farris (1912-2004), a University of British Columbia graduate, and homemaker, married John Lauchlan in 1933 and had three children, Ann, Haig, and Katherine.

Hundal (family)
Family

Hakim Singh Hundal, a director of the Canadian-Indian Supply and Trust company left India for Canada in 1911 with his family--his mother, Bishan Kaur, and his four sons, Atma, Iqbal [Ikball], Teja, and Jermeja. The family spent two years living in the Hong Kong Sikh Temple awaiting immigration clearance to land in Canada. The family eventually arrived in Canada in 1913 after a barrage of appeals to all levels of government. The Hundal boys went on to become excellent students. They lived in Point Grey and attended Queen Mary Elementary and Prince of Wales High School, then on to the University of British Columbia.

Iqbal [Ikball] (b. 22 Aug. 1902) earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington in 1925 and went on to become an aeronautical engineer in the United States. While in the United States, Iqbal also served with the Air Unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Later, he married Ranjit Kaur Bains and had at least one son and one daughter. He also worked in the automobile industry in Oshawa, Ontario.

Teja (5 June 1903-14 Nov. 1971) worked as a lumber grader for 35 years and married Beatrice Evelyn MacDonald. He died in Burnaby, B.C.

Jermeja "Jerry" (5 Apr. [1905 or 1906]-25 May 1991) attended UBC, where he played rugby, and then Oregon State College. Jermeja lived and worked for a time in Toronto where he met his wife, Joyce. The couple moved to Los Angeles in 1957 where Jermeja opened the West Coast office of Air-India. Prior to that he was the commercial assistant to the Indian consul general in San Francisco. In the 1960s, he was also the president of the India-American Society.

Kudo (family)
Family

Minoru Kudo was born on December 2, 1886 in Ariho-mura, Takada-gun, Hiroshima-ken, Japan as the second son of Ryonosuke Kudo and Utano Kudo (nee Nomura). In December 1906, Kudo left Japan for the Americas, arriving in Vancouver in 1907. Kudo worked as an office clerk for the local Japanese press, the Tairiku Nippo, and spent much of his early years in Canada studying English.

In 1911, Kudo purchased land to farm in Mission City, B.C. He was only the third Japanese immigrant to do so. In 1916, Kudo co-founded the Mission Japanese Farmers’ Association and was elected the association’s first chairman.

Toward the end of 1918, Kudo temporarily returned to Japan and married Hatsune Kudo (nee Kawamura). Hatsune was born in 1895 to Yasu Kawamura and Toyonosuke Kanaya and was a primary school teacher.

In addition to the family’s farming work in Mission, the couple worked as teachers at the community’ Japanese language schools, and Minoru Kudo served as principal between 1930 and 1942. They had 6 children: Joyce Harumi (later Miyagawa) [1920-1969], Roland Kho [1921-2003], Margaret Makiko [1923-1945], Alice Chie [1924 – 2018], Jack Sadamu [192- - after 2003] ,and Kathleen Chisato (later Merken) [1937- ].
Due to his command of the English language and leadership positions within the Mission Japanese Canadian community, Minoru Kudo volunteered as a daishonin (scrivener), helping community members to navigate disputes, complete paperwork, and compose communication (often in English). This role is something that he continued to fill during the forced displacement of Japanese Canadians from British Columbia in 1942. During this period, Kudo communicated with the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) as well as with land ‘custodians’ and farm managers to coordinate where Japanese Canadian families could find work in Alberta and to advocate for their better treatment and compensation.
Around 1947, the Minoru, Hatsune, and Kathleen moved to Chatham, Ontario and worked at the general hospital there. In 1952, they moved to London, Ontario, where Minoru Kudo worked for Wonder Bakeries as a nightwatchman.
Alice Chie Kudo was born in 1924 in Mission City, B.C. She enrolled at UBC in 1942 before her education was disrupted due to the forced displacement of Japanese Canadians from B.C. She was one of 76 students at UBC who were forcibly removed. Kudo ultimately graduated from Queen’s University in 1950 with a B.A. in mathematics and physics. She continued on to get a MA in library science from the University of Montreal. Kudo worked for the Canadian National Railway from 1953 to 1962 and then for the Financial Times of Canada from 1962 to 1972. From 1975 to 1989, she worked as an editorial researcher for Reader’s Digest.
Kathleen Chisato Merken (nee Kudo) is the youngest child of Minoru and Hatsune Kudo. She was 4 years old when the family was forcibly displaced from B.C. Kathleen graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in Honours Modern Languages and Literatures in 1959, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. Following her graduation from Berkeley, Merken worked as a freelance translator for advertising agencies in Japan. She then held an appointment as a visiting assistant processor in the Department of French at UBC from 1971-1972, after which she enrolled in a doctoral program with the Asian studies department. Merken completed this doctorate in 1979 and served as a visiting professor in the Asian Studies department for a year. She then served as a visiting professor at the University of Montreal (82082), as a lecturer at McGill and a charge de cours at the University of Montreal (1983-1984), and finally as an assistant professor and later faculty lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill (1986-200-). She retired in the early 2000s but continued to work as a translator both professionally and personally.

Ralston (family)
Family

Harry Keith Ralston (born September 3rd, 1921, died June 20, 2009) was the oldest of three sons of Henry Wellington Ralston (1887-1943) and Gertrude Marinda Walker (1884-1964). Keith was educated at Oaklands Elementary and at Victoria High School, where he won the Royal Institution Scholarship for Victoria District on his graduation in 1938. Proceeding to Victoria College and the University of BC, he received a BA with 1st Class Honours in History in 1942 and later completed an MA at UBC in 1965. He also did graduate work at the University of Toronto. In 1942 Keith entered the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman and was discharged in 1945 as Lieutenant after serving on the Atlantic Coast. A lifelong socialist, Keith was the legislative correspondent in 1952-55 for the left-wing weekly Pacific Tribune as well as for The Fisherman and other labour newspapers. Turning to teaching, he graduated in 1956 from the Vancouver Normal School with distinction, an honour given to only ten graduates among more than 500. From 1956 to 1960 he taught at Templeton Secondary School on Vancouver's east side. In 1960-64 he was first curator of the newly-established Vancouver Maritime Museum and mounted its initial exhibitions as well as assembling its early collection. After further academic study, he was appointed to the History Department of UBC in 1967. There he specialized in teaching the history of the Canadian West and developed UBC's first course in British Columbia's history. He retired at the end of 1986 with the rank of Assistant Professor.

Edith Mary “Mollie” Ralston (born March 11, 1922) , died December 18, 2011) was a teacher in the Vancouver school system. Born March 11, 1922 in Prince Rupert, eldest child of James Owens (1887-1978) and Margaret Janet Owens (nee Anderson) (1890-1982), at the age of five months, she and her mother went to the Bulkley Valley where her father had taken up land in the community of Evelyn, 12 miles north of Smithers, BC. She grew up on the farm, and walked the 2 and a half miles to the one-room Evelyn School until Grade 8, and completed a further three years of high school through the provincial correspondence program. For Grade 12 she went with her sister Janet to Prince Rupert where the girls boarded at the convent run by the Sisters of St. Joseph. Mollie graduated in 1939 from Booth Memorial High School and came down by steamer to attend UBC that fall as WWII broke out. At UBC she completed the first two years in the Arts and Science faculty, then enrolled at Sprott-Shaw Business College to take a one-year program. She then went to work for Northwest Mortgage, the first of several office jobs. In 1944 she left her position at Marsh McLennan to travel across Canada by train to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where on July 3, 1944 she married Keith Ralston, whom she had met at UBC and who was then serving in the Royal Canadian Navy. There followed a period of moving about the country, to Vancouver in 1945-47, Toronto in 1947-49, and Victoria in 1949-54. In all these places Mollie was the major family breadwinner as her husband pursued a graduate degree in history. Mollie's two children were born in Victoria, Bruce in 1952, and Delia in 1954. In mid-1954 the family moved back to Vancouver and Keith attended Normal School, thereafter becoming a teacher in the Vancouver school system, a move made possible by Mollie's continuing office work. Settling into their first house in 1958 both were employed while Mollie also went to evening degree classes at UBC. By 1965, she had accumulated enough credits to take a year in the Faculty of Education and qualify as an elementary teacher. This second career was to last 18 years and to take her to several Vancouver schools, including Begbie Annex, General Gordon, Sir William Osler, Seymour and latterly Carnarvon. All this was plus a year in the English Midlands as an exchange teacher. Along the way by taking UBC Summer School courses she completed in 1968 the UBC program she had started almost 30 years before. Retiring in 1984, she had completed a working life of 42 years in which, as she said, there was only one year she did not file an income tax return.

Norman (family)
Family

Howard Norman (1905-1986) was born in Japan and after graduating from the University of Toronto he studied to become a minister. Ordained in 1931, he returned to Japan where he served until 1941. Norman was minister at St George's United Church (Vancouver) from 1941 to 1947 during which time he was very active on behalf of Japanese Canadians. After returning to Japan in 1947 where he served in various capacities, Norman retired to Canada in 1972.

Odlum (family)
Family

From 1886 to 1889 Edward Odlum and his family lived in Japan where he was engaged in educational work. Odlum's son Victor was born in Cobourg, Ontario and came to British Columbia in 1889. He worked as a reporter and then editor-in-chief of the Daily World. Victor Odlum served then as MLA in the Provincial Legislature (1924-1928) and also completed a distinguished career in the military.

Fuller Sisters
Family

The Fuller family were from Sturminster Newton, Dorset England. The three sisters of the family, Dorothy, Rosalind and Cynthia, performed traditional English, Scottish and Irish folk songs in Victorian costume; their brother Walter acted as their manager. From 1913 to 1917 the sisters toured American towns and cities, especially in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. During this period Walter Fuller was based in New York City. Walter Fuller was married to Crystal Eastman (feminism activist and sister of Max Eastman, author and activist). At the end of the First World War, Walter Fuller returned to England.

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.

Lowry (family)
Family

Clarence Malcolm Lowry, the fourth son of a Liverpool cotton broker, Arthur Lowry and his wife, Evelyn, was born in 1909 in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. His brothers were Stuart, Wilfrid, and Russell. By the age of 30, when he had arrived in British Columbia, Malcolm Lowry had received a B.A. in English from Cambridge University, published a novel and travelled to the United States and Mexico. By this time he had begun work on his major novel, Under the Volcano. In 1940 he married Margerie Bonner. For the next fifteen years, he resided primarily in Dollarton, North Vancouver and travelled abroad before returning to England. His final home was in Sussex, where he died in 1957. From the time he came to British Columbia until his death, Lowry wrote novels, short stories, radio and film scripts, and poetry.