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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…

Nov 2 2011 Violet Third (née Schleger, b. 1921 in Neudorf, Saskatchewan) is the daughter of German immigrants, her father owned a cement-contracting company and her mother was a dressmaker. At the age of three, the family moved to Vancouver (the West End) where Violet attended Dawson Elementary School and a commercial secondary school on Broadway and Granville. Her first job was in her sister's restaurant on Pender and Granville. At nineteen, Violet met her first boyfriend and soon-to-be…

2005 Mary Morison (South Vancouver, April 10, 1921). Mary married Allister James Morison from Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1959/60, although he died not long after they were married. He moved to Canada in 1910, his father was a shoemaker on Commercial Drive and he worked for various drug companies. They met each other at the Loch Nagar Clansmen Social Group, Sons of Scotland, of which she was a camp Chief for one year. She used to teach Gaelic songs at this camp. Mary worked at Eatons for 15 years…