Date: 2015-01-15, 2015-01-26
Name(s): Matheson, Alan
Description: Alan Matheson Jan 15 2015, Jan 26 2015 Born: James Alan Matheson. Born in Calgary, Alberta, March 29, 1959. Second eldest of four (two brothers and a younger sister). Father: Daniel Glenn Matheson. Born in Lac-Mégantic in Quebec Sept 15 1925. Went into the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1944, stationed in Borden, Ontario. Moved to Calgary after being stationed at Currie Barracks. Worked for Alberta Wheat Pool and became involved with Decca Records in the 1950's. Opened the first standalone record…
Date: 2004-09-09, 2004-08-20, 2004-12-10
Name(s): Lee, Alma
Description: August 20 2004 Alma Stark Lee. Born: (Edinburgh, May 1940). She has two brothers: Graeme/Graham (Edinburgh, married with children and grandchildren, was an accountant and then a teacher of business admin at Napier College, Edinburgh), Gordon (just outside Aberdeen, married with children and grandchildren, sold pharmaceutical drugs) Father: Alan Graeme/Graham Stark (Balerno, January 10 1900). 2 brothers, 3 sisters (only remembers 2 sisters: Nelly and Jean). His father, Neil Stark, worked for the…
Date: 2011-11-09, 2011-11-14
Name(s): Macpherson, Angus
Description: Angus Macpherson Nov 9 2011, Nov 14 2011 Born: Angus Macpherson, Dec 12 1951, in Johnstone, Scotland (between Paisley & Glasgow) First of four siblings (2 sisters and 1 brother). One sister lives in England, just north of Liverpool. She took music lessons for a time, but gave it up. Another lives in Oakville, and is married to a piper. She is a former drummer with the Vancouver Ladies & Burnaby Ladies Pipe Band. Her son is a Pipe Major and also plays in the 78th Frasers, along with a…
Date: 2011-03-09, 2011-06-29
Name(s): Vernon, Anne
Description: Anne Vernon March 9 2011, June 29 2011 Born: Anne Leith Fraser, July 16, 1926 in Lanarkshire, Scotland. Born at a home called Balgownie. One brother, William (Bill) Fraser. Very good at sports as a young boy, he was the only male descendant on the Fraser line, and was quite favoured as a result. During the War, the headmaster told their mother that he should be sent away, as they lived so close to the docks in Glasgow, "a magnet for young boys". He went to Keil Boarding School and did well…
Date: 2004-05-18
Name(s): Humphries, Charles
Description: Side A damaged/distorted, Side B a lot of fuzzy crackle, rest of audio file missing) May 18 2004 Charles Walter Humphries (Galt, 20 August 1932). Charles was a "Depression Baby". He had a younger sister (b. 1936), although she developed a blood condition and later died in 1985/6. He remembers there being three Presbyterian churches in Galt—Knox, Central, and St. Andrews—that were flooded with Scots. But this merely reinforced the Scottish nature of the town. He also remembers that this Scottish…
Date: 2012-02-27
Name(s): Campbell, Ian
Description: Feb 27 2012 Chief Ian Geordie (middle name from the movie "Wee Geordie") Campbell (b. 1973 in North Vancouver, BC) of the Squamish Nation is the youngest of two children (older sister). His mother (of the Baker family, from the Englishman John Baker) has three siblings and his father, Wayne, has six. Ian's surname "Campbell" is from Jimmy Campbell, a Scottish emigrant who married a Katzie woman (Fort Langley area) in the mid 1800s. Jimmy's daughter, Jenny Campbell, was a member of the Cowichan…
Date: 2005-02-27
Name(s): Bachop, Cilla
Description: February 27 2005 Lucilla Bachop (b. October 22, 1946, Edinburgh) was adopted into a family of nine children. As the youngest, she had four older sisters and four older brothers. Her adopted father, James (b. 1891, Glasgow), had a shoe-making/repair shop on the High Street that his father had started. He was the second eldest in his family. Cilla vividly remembers her father's fabulous vocabulary and his love for football and cigarettes. Cilla's paternal adopted grandfather, James (b. Glasgow),…
Date: 2011-11-26
Name(s): Neveaux, Dauna
Description: Nov 26 2011 Dauna Neveaux (née Daune Mae Currie, b. 1935 in Chilliwack, BC) is the youngest of four (three older brothers). Her father, Earl Marshall Currie (b. 1891 in Boissevain, Manitoba), was the eldest of five children. He trained as a teacher and, after a traumatic experience in Petersfield, Manitoba (two of his students drowned), he moved to Vancouver to join his family. In 1911 he took up a bread route in Shaughnessy before moving to Sardis in 1913. In 1938, Dauna's father bought ten…
Date: 2004-12-01
Name(s): Mackay, Donald
Description: 1 December 2004 Donald MacDonald MacKay (Vancouver, September 6 1927). He is the second of two children. His sister, Hannah, who is five years older, was born in Carloway, Scotland, in a black-house. She could not speak English when she came out to Canada and only spoke broken English when she went to school. She was very much into the Gaelic societies in and around Vancouver and meeting other Scottish families, much more so than he was. He was brought up alongside other immigrant families in…
Date: 2004-08-24
Name(s): Sinclair, Donald
Description: August 24 2004 Donald Sinclair – Tape 1, Side B, Tape 2, Side A, other recordings missing. Recording starts abruptly, in the middle of a sentence. Mother's siblings: Peggy (married Tim MacLean), Marjorie (married Ronald Laing) came to Vancouver, Canada with her husband. Allister, settled in Winnipeg. Ronald – was a police officer in Glasgow, was pipe major of the Glasgow Police Pipe Band. Badly wounded in WWI. He was quite short and called "wee Ronald". Donald Ewan - Superintendent of largest…
Date: 2004-05-13
Name(s): Brown, Dorothy
Date: 2004-05-01
Name(s): Gibson, Edward, Gibson, Mary Ann
Description: 1 May 2004 (volume quality is very faint, some of what they say is very hard to make out) Edward and Marianne Gibson Edward Mark Walter Gibson (Sinco, Ontario, October 29, 1934). He is the second of two children. Their son, Walter, was named after Sir Walter Scott. They have been to Jedburgh, Scotland, searching the Reekie family connection. Edward has also been to Scotland a few more times, with the military and for academic reasons. He was with the Canadian Black Watch for seven years. He…
Date: 2012-05-29
Name(s): Ward, Frank
Description: Frank Ward May 29 2012 Frank Hamden Ward, born in Toronto Aug 24, 1926. Fourth of five children. Siblings: Tommy (passed in 1924 at 5 years old), Jean Emma (born 1921, passed in 2002), Robert "Harry" Harrington (born 1922, passed in 2004), Mary (still living on a farm near Orangeville at time of interview). Father: Thomas John Ward, born in Nantwich, Cheshire, England in 1874. . Lived in Alderney in the Channel Islands until age 9, father John operated a store in Alderney. When the British…
Date: 2011-07-14
Name(s): Morgan, George
Description: George L. Morgan July 14 2011 Born: George Lambie Morgan, June 3, 1927 in Troon, Ayreshire, Scotland. One of 11 siblings (3rd youngest). Five girls were born first, followed by 6 boys. Father: Walter John Morgan. Born in London, England in 1893, passed in 1934. Was in the Army for a time and also a sailor. Served in the Royal Fusiliers during the First World War. Before the War, he was a cabin boy. He was a "jack of all trades", but was unable to care for 11 children after his wife passed.…
Date: 2012-08-07, 2012-08-15
Name(s): Davidson, Graham
Description: Graham Davidson August 7, 2012, August 15, 2012. Born: Graham Stewart Davidson, June 1st 1957, in Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland. 1 older sister named Sandra, who lives on Vancouver Island. Father: Alexander Blair Davidson, born 1919 in Bishopbriggs. Youngest of 3 (two older sisters, Margaret & Betty). Alex's father (Graham's grandfather) passed when he was 14. Mother: Kathleen Graham Stewart, born in 1923 in Bishopbriggs. Eldest of 2 daughters (younger sister Mirian, drowned at age…
