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March 16 2004, April 21 2004 Jimmy McMillan Born: James "Jimmy" Graham McMillan, Sept. 27, 1911 in Argyleshire. Oldest of 4 children (two sisters and a brother). Father: Born in Argyleshire in 1888. One of 13 boys and 2 girls, all the men in the family were blacksmith. He was the 4th born and was a twin, they both served in the military, and his twin brother was killed in the War. He continued to work as a Blacksmith in Victoria. Paternal Grandfather: Killed in a boiler explosion around age…

March 8, 2004 James "Jim" Balfour Buchanan (b. March 31, 1921 in Vancouver) is the only child of James Buchanan (b. Feb. 1877 in Shanghai, d. 1944 in Vancouver) and his mother (b. in Kingston, Jamaica), whose maiden name was Balfour. Father: sent to boarding school in Yorkshire, England at age 8. After completing his schooling, he lived in Germany for one year, learning the language and thus preparing him for later services as an interpreter at the end of the First World War. He was living…

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…