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Note: 600\tx6160\tx6720\pardirnatural \f0\fs24 \cf0 \par --Marriage license & newspaper accounts show that he was married to Phebe Cordelia Brown in Sacramento CA USA; why he was in CA is a mystery to me!! \par --CHARLES WALLACE RHODES was born in Victoria BC in 1861 to a pioneer family from England, Henry & Sophia (Cape) Rhodes. According to his obituary, he first began working in 1878 as a clerk in his father's lumber business, Henry Rhodes & Company. In 1880 he left Victoria and joined the western division of the CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) as a paymaster. The territory he covered was between Port Moody and Savonas, and he was in responsible for paying the seven thousand men who were forging that railway. He was also required to see to the forwarding of supplies by pack animals over very rough terrain and trails. When he returned to Victoria, he worked as an accountant and as a realtor, until 1889 when he joined the Brackman-Ker Milling Company. He was to stay with that company for twenty years. In addition to his business career, Rhodes served in the militia under a Major Dupont, was an amateur actor in local productions and had a fine baritone voice. He passed away on September 12, 1912. He was a member of the Victoria Native Sons Society, Post #1, the Arion Club, and the Union and Pacific Club. When he died, the flag on the Union/Pacific building was flown at half mast in honor of his memory. \par --Buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria BC Canada, in the Rhodes family plot}
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