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plague at that time in England, families who ordered meat in the morning were dead when Jack delivered that afternoon
in 1923 at Bowness-on-Windermere, County of Westmorland, obtained a Boat License permitting him to run a boat on petrol
worked at Jackson Meats in Vanvouver
an accident with a boning knife in the abdomen required a visit to St. Paul's hospital where he met Dorothy,other incidents with knives including a butcher's cleaver. played violin, a violin made in 1905 in Barrow Lanes, also in the home was a triangle, a xylophone and an antique woodwind instrument consisting of two tubes that one would slide to abtain the desired tone (probably a native indian instrument). Two of his military postings were to Prince George and Pat Bay on the Island
Loved to build canoes, kyaks, and row boats.
Built an 18' sailboat "Rosie" and sailed it from Prince Rupert to Vancouver with his dog Jack also cooked on "transatlantic liners" possible larger fishing vessels, both up and down the coast and across to the Orient. One such boat was named "Princess of Asia" He was ill every summer and hospitalized with bleeding ulcers. He was not sympathetic with other people being sick and did not believe in mental illness.
Jack was not in the habit of atending church but was sympathetic with Dorothy and the children attending first a United Church, then Salvation Army (while the family lived on Grant Street) then Baptist church (Calvary Baptist BUWC) beginning in 1946. Jack assisted the Baptist pastor in building projects around the church, also taught boys brigade.
The family would rent a cabin in Crescent Beach for a month each summer.
On V Day, 1945, Jack was on leave, at home. That day, after the end of the war was announced he made doughnuts for all the neighbour children Jack worked up until the day he died, he had a stoke at work and died that night.
Died without a will, next of kin is May
buried at Valley View cemetary in Surrey, B.C.
I have copy of cemetary record (Elizabeth Lucia)
Of the list you gave us, we have only a record for a John Brockbank. It would seem that he is one of your relatives on your list as, being the son of a Freemason, he would have wanted to be initiated into the Order, as an "Entered Apprentice" as soon as possible after his 21st birthday, and our records show his date of initiation into Mount Lebanon Lodge No.72, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, as September 8, 1926. He took his intermediate "Fellow Craft" degree on February 10, 1927, and his final degree as a "Master Mason" (to become a full member of the Order) on March 10, 1927.
Unfortunately, the news is not good after that. His membership was
suspended for non-payment of his annual dues to his Lodge in 1940. He was subsequently reinstated in 1943 when he had cleared his debt to his
Lodge, but was again suspended for non-payment of dues in 1948. He did
not clear this second debt.
A Freemason who has been suspended is not entitled to any Masonic
privileges, nor are any of his relatives or descendents entitled to
such. It is always a pity when a Freemason leaves our Order under these circumstances, as his action affects others.
As for your other relatives, you may like to ask the United Grand Lodge
of England about them. You should write to:
The Grand Secretary Freemasons' Hall
Great Queen Street London WC2B 5AZ England
Note: came to Canada age 17 as a meat cutter by trade, first of his family to immigra
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