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View of a golf course in Kelowna, B.C.

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…

Front view from left. Golfers in front

Large flat-roofed building with green lawn in foreground

Man driving off tee, Mt. Baker behind

View across green island and lighthouse

View looking across golf course towards mountains

Mountains in distance with golf course and flower beds in foreground

View looking out over the golf course; Stream and footbridge shown in foreground

View of the golf course with Okanagan Lake in the distance

View from above; Two golfers

Circular driveway in front of clubhouse

View of clubhouse from below