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Note: <b>Harry Lewis Lea </b> in the 1921 Census of Canada
Name: Harry Lewis Lea
Gender: Male
Marital status: Married
Age: 31
Birth Year: abt 1890
Birth Place: England
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Minnie Ethel Lea
Father Birth Place: England
Mother Birth Place: England
Year of Immigration: 1910
Racial or Tribal Origin: English
Province or Territory: British Columbia
District: Nanaimo
District Number: 19
Sub-District: Cowichan
Sub-District Number: 13
City, Town or Village: Jordan River
Street or Township: Jordan River
Municipality: Diversson
Occupation: Caretaker
Income: 2300
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Harry Lewis Lea31
Minnie Ethel Lea28
Miriam Lois Lea4
Kenneth Harry Lea1
Source Citation
Reference Number:Â RG 31; Folder Number:Â 16; Census Place:Â Cowichan, Nanaimo, British Columbia; Page Number:Â 19
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1921 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2013.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Sixth Census of Canada, 1921. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2013. Series RG31. Statistics Canada Fonds.
Images are reproduced with the permission of Library and Archives Canada.
Description
Find your Ancestors in the 1921 Canadian Census. Canada added 1,581,840 new residents between 1911 and 1921. The Prairie Provinces were the big gainers, with Alberta and Saskatchewan each growing by more than 50 percent
According to the records of Trinity Episcopal Church in Juneau, Ak he was confirmed a member of the congregation on 26 Oct 1930, the same day his mother and sister were confiremed. He was baptized on Easter Sunday, 20 Apr 1930.
<b>Harry L Lea
</b> in the 1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Harry L Lea
Birth Year: abt 1891
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: England
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1930: Juneau, First Judicial District, Alaska Territory, USA
Map of Home: View Map
Radio Set: No
Able to Read and Write: No
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: England
Immigration Year: 1905
Household Members: Name Age
Harry L Lea39
Minnie E Lea35
Miriam L Lea12
Kenneth H Lea9
Neighbors: View others on page
Source Citation
Year:Â 1930; Census Place:Â Juneau, First Judicial District, Alaska Territory; Page:Â 9B; Enumeration District:Â 0020; FHL microfilm:Â 2342360
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls.
Description
The 1930 Census contains records for approximately 123 million Americans. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1930, and contains information about a householdâs family members and occupants including: birthplaces, occupations, immigration, citizenship, and military service. The names of those listed in the census are linked to actual images of the 1930 Census
<b>Harry L Lea
</b> in the 1940 United States Federal Census
Name: Harry L Lea
Age: 49
Estimated birth year: abt 1891
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: England
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Juneau, First Judicial Division, Alaska
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: 12th Street
Citizenship: Naturalized
Sheet Number: 34A
Number of Household in Order of Visitation: 552
Occupation: Truck Driver
House Owned or Rented: Owned
Value of Home or Monthly Rental if Rented: 50.00
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year
Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker
Weeks Worked in 1939: 52
Income: 2016
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Harry L Lea49
Minnie Ethel Lea44
Miriam Lois Lea22
Kenneth Harry Lea19
Year:Â 1940; Census Place:Â Juneau, First Judicial Division, Alaska; Roll:Â m-t0627-04578; Page:Â 34A; Enumeration District:Â 1-26
Source Information
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.
Description
The 1940 United States Federal Census is the largest census released to date and the most recent census available for public access. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1940, with details about a householdâs occupants that include birthplaces, occupations, education, citizenship, and income.
Buried in Elks Plot, Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, AK. Same space as his mother, father, wife and brother-in-law. His remains were cremated and returned to Juneau for burial.
He died in Mesa while visiting his daughter Mary Thomas.
Ken graduated from the Juneau High School 24 May 1939.
Ken was 5' 10 1/2" tall, weighted 175 lbs., with curly brown hair and brown eyes.
Joined the Alaska Territorial Guard in 1939. He was activated into federal service in 1940, serving the war years in Alaska. He was discharged 10 Dec 1945. His serial number with the military was 20 955 462. He was discharged as a Sargeant. His military specialty was that of "Hatch Foreman". He spent much time at sea on the military mail boats of Southcentral Alaska.
He and his brother-in-law, Kenneth Lowe, were both assigned to the 143rd Port Company (TC) in 1944. He went to work for Union Oil Company of California in 1939. Upon his return from active duty, they restored his job with paid up service (towards his pension). He served the company loyally for the remainder of his working life.
As he was very bright and recognized by the Company to be very capable they moved he and his family from Juneau to Ketchikan in 1959. He thereafter refused promotion rather than leave Alaska. He ran the Ketchikan bulk plant for many years, training many of the up and coming young managers in Union Oil.
He had a fantastic memory, as an example, he commited the guage tables for all the large petroleum tanks to memory. This save much time when calculating the volume and quantity of fuel in the tanks (to accurately arrive at an accurate quantity, one had to allow for product expansion and contraction due to ambient
temperature change).
My dad was born in Canada and moved to the US with his parents and sister at an early age. As a result he was a naturalized US citizen.
He was raised here in Juneau in what was then the Territory of Alaska; we were a very small, rural town of only a few thousand souls. The town even then was the capitol of Alaska but government was small and did not greatly contribute to the local economy. My dad's first job was working in a soda shop called Percy's in downtown Juneau, his second job was considerably more worldly as he was a bellhop at a local hotel, the Baranoff. After graduation from high school he did several things all at or about the same time; World War II was looming so he joined the Alaska Territorial Guard. Secondly, he worked as fish trap guard; the fish traps fished the large salmon runs and collected large and consequently valuable loads of salmon. Fish pirates would go to the trap sites and help themselves; as a result the guards were hired and put in place. Dangerous and exciting work. In the fall, after fishing season he went to work for the Union Oil Company of California here in Juneau, shortly thereafter Dec 1941 the US became involved in the war and his unit was activated for the duration.
Even the white population of that era led at least a partial "subsitence" life style so dad hunted and fished regularly to supplement the family food supply. This continued when we were younger here in Juneau and Ketchikan; we ate a lot of venison.
The Alaska Territorial Guard was stationed in coastal Alaska; my dad with is marine experience was placed as a deckhand on a former fishing boat (The boats and their owners were also drafted for the duration of the war.) He spent much time delivering the mail and supplies to outlying army posts on theses former salmon seine boats and packers.
The Guard was dependent on one or two supply ships a year; one year the ship delivered vienna suasages, maccaroni and little else by way of food; as a result the diet was very repetitive and was filled out with whatever the Alaska boys could collect from the ocean or forests. My dad wouldn't eat Vienna sausages until the day he died.
At that time in Alaska seals and eagles were regarded as pests as they competed for salmon with man; as a result there was a Federallly funded bounty on them. My dad used a military rifle, military ammunition from a military vessel to kill eagles and seals which were then turned in to the government for a monetary bounty; $2.00 each if I remember.
He also helped contruct the Arctic Bowl ski area near Anchorage; he was bulldozer operator. He was working side hill when the cat rolled over and nealy killed him; he wore a large scar on his arm for the rest of his life.
During the latter years of the war, 1945, he befriended an old batchelor in Anchorage who asked him to stay on at the end of the war but dad was anxious to get home to Juneau. Had he stayed he would have owned 120 acres of downtown Anchorage. Big bucks!
He enjoyed skiing as a winter sport. In those days there was no ski lifts so you carried the heavy slats called skis up the hill on your back and skiied down. He was apparently quite proficient as he once saved another injured skier from an avalanche by skiing down hill in front of the snow slide with his friend on his back.
His girl friend at the time was injured in a skiing accident and was admitted to St. Ann's Hospital in Juneau where our future mother was working. End of old girl friend and start of new relationship.
They married shortly thereafter.
My mother reported with some glee that when dad was sick she would try to take his pulse and would always have to wait for the pulse to stabablize after she touched him before she could get a good reading. I think he liked her.
When my dad got back to Juneau at the end of the war he found that not only had Union Oil held his job for him but had regularly contributed to his retirement account; he remained a loyal employee for the next 30-years.
He worked first of the floats where fuel was delivered to ships in the channel, he later drove truck and then into the office. Being quite bright he did well at the work and eventually became the plant manager in Juneau and later Ketchikan. Union Oil wanted him to take over a plan in Honolulu but he refused to leave Alaska. Since the position he held was needed to train upcoming company employees he continued to be paid as plant manager but relinquished to position to a series of people who were moving up in the company. His job was to train these people for greater responsibility within the firm which he apparently did with considerable success.
An example of his intelligence and memory that comes to mind concerns the industry practice of guaging the bulk fuel tanks to verify the quantity of various fuels on hand. For each tank depending upon its diameter and the tempurature of the fuel (ie expansion or contraction of fuel based on ambient temperatures) there was a table used to determine the volume and therefore gallons of fuel present. He ran figures for about 18-tanks without using the tables; they were all in his head.
He was volunteer fireman in his youth, he gave that up when we moved to Ketchikan in 1959. He was a Lieutenant with the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department.
Two stories in that regard: on winter fires the blowing water could freeze on contact with his bunker gear. I remember vividly having to put him into the shower in order to defrost him enough to get him out of his firefighting gear.
The second has to do with a nightie; firefighters have their boots and bunker pants folded down so they can be quickly put on. One of mom's nighties somehow got over the bunker gear. That night they had a fire call and he went racing off to the fire. The other guys gave him a had time about the lacy garments hanging from the back of his outfit. Very chic.
He was a very steady husband and father; always had a job, always brought the pay check home, didn't gamble, etc. I don't recalll his ever losing his temper.
Money was never plentiful but then we never went hungry either. Couple new pair of pants and shirts in the fall for school and they had to make do until the following fall. TV was new, black and white only so that wasn't a percieved need. No computers or cell phones either, life was simpler and far less costly.
His major vices were tobacco and beer. Tobacco in the early days was not thought to be a problem and people started smoking very young. It ultimately killed him.
As to beer, after 500PM you rarely saw him without a can in hand but on the other hand, I don't recall ever seeing him intoxicated or even typsy.
He was a good woodsman and hunter; never saw him lost or turned around in the forest. He was always sure of his location which in the mountainous temperate rain forest of southeast Alaska was a feat.
Having learned to drive in Alaska, in a small town with limited roads he rarely drove over 35 mph. Yet when he and mom retired to a motorhome I understand that he took to the freeways like a duck to water. The problem was getting him to pull off the highway.
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