History Helps Volume Six, Number 12, November 2006
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• Greetings
• Tablet in Memory of the Fallen
• Research on World War One
• Replies From Subscribers
• Trans-Pacific Steamship Service
• A Website to Check Regularly
• Subscription, Privacy Policy

LET US NOT FORGET... REMEMBRANCE DAY, NOVEMBER 11TH!

Tablet in Memory of The Fallen

“B. C. INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS WILL UNVEIL TABLET TO MEMORY OF BRETHREN AT VICTORIA

Newspapermen from all parts of the province will assemble at Victoria Sunday to do honor to the memory of journalists who lost their lives in the Great War, at the unveiling of a memorial tablet in the legislative building. Newspapermen of the province subscribed to the fund for the erection of the tablet, which is of bronze, and bears an illustrated scroll on which the names of fourteen journalist-soldiers [who] lost their lives in the war, and beneath that list are the names are the names of fifty-six others who saw service. The crest of the B. C. Institute of Journalists, in colors, surmounts the scroll. His Honor Walter C. Nicol, Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, and himself an active newspaperman, will unveil the tablet Sunday.”

Source: The Vancouver Sun, 04 August 1922, page one.

Research on World War One

Library and Archives Canada has for a long time had a database entitled Soldiers of the First World War, which I use frequently to locate individuals.

However, I had never ordered an individual’s file until recently when I was doing so for a client in England. The service was good (6 weeks approximately), though not cheap (40 cents per copy, plus postage), and I’m sure my client now knows more than she could possibly have wanted to know about this man. But this was probably a worthwhile expense for obtaining elusive, but interesting, information.

Replies from Subscribers

Thank you to the half dozen or so subscribers who responded to my query about taxpayers and ratepayers, and helped sort out the confusion.

Since the reference differentiates between the two, and ascribes more rights to one group over the other, I’m assuming that ratepayers paid for local government services and did not pay property taxes.

It seems to me that the two categories still exist, but we no longer refer to anyone as a ratepayer.

Trans-Pacific Steamship Service

One of History Helps’ subscribers has created tables of sailing and arrival dates of the mail ships that travelled between Canada and Australia and Canada and the Far East, from 1887 right up to 1914. Some genealogy researchers might find this information useful, and can access the website of the Postal History Society of Canada (PHASIC) at http://www.postalhistorycanada.org/int_pacific.htm. Thanks ever so much, Gray.

As a matter of interest, the Vancouver newspapers in the 1890s listed the names of passengers in first and second class. And I recall seeing microfilm reels of Passenger Lists for the Port of Vancouver 1905-1922 at the Vancouver Public Library, 6th Floor.

A Website To Check Regularly

The website of Library and Archives Canada, referred to above, appears to be updated regularly. Most recently I was made aware that a database had been added. This is a searchable database listing postmasters at individual post offices located across Canada throughout the postal service’s history.
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/index-e.html

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