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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Canada Lookup Request => Topic started by: Jane Sharp on Saturday 11 November 23 08:52 GMT (UK)
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Hello
My apologies - I didn't mean to post in Canada resources ! I meant to post in Canada look up request !
I am researching my grandfather - William Richard Johnstone b1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. After many years of searching, I recently discovered he was my grandfather via a first cousin DNA match. (my Nan had an affair during the war while her husband was away and she never divulged his identity)
One of his other grandchildren who I met online via facebook has given me some information so far, and I've added it to my tree.
He was a Royal Canadian Airforce pilot in WW2 and served in England (where he fathered my Mum but didn't marry my Nana). Not sure if he served elsewhere.
He returned with an English wife, Joan (nee Dallimore) and daughter T A Johnstone, and they moved to British Columbia and lived in Vancouver and Victoria. He later divorced Joan and married a lady named Ollie.
I'd love to find his birth record in Manitoba, his second marriage record which I believe would have been in Vancouver or Victoria (I do not know his second wife Ollie's surname at this point) and also the birth records of his children A E Johnstone & D J Johnstone.
I have created a public profile of him on my ancestry family tree.
https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/161900165/person/292291503199/facts
I'm finding Canadian research so hard as everything seems to be spread over many sources.
If anyone can help find out about him and his children (my aunts and uncles) I'd much appreciate it.
Thank you kindly
Jane
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You should be able to get his WW2 service record from the Federal Library and Archives of Canada (https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng) (LAC). However be prepared for along wait. I have only just received a service record I first ordered in Aug 2019. I can't find a link for this service on the LAC website so maybe they are trying to discourage requests until they have cleared the backlog.
As you have found, most other official records are held at the provincial level, meaning that anyone who lived in several places in Canada will have different sets of records in different places. No different to the UK and Ireland really where England and Wales, and Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all have their own sets of records covering different time scales, and differing procedures for how to access them.
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Most of the records for the time frame you require are protected by very strict privacy in Canada.
I wonder if this could be a picture of him ?? Just to bear in mind at mo.
Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Sat, 11 Nov 2006 Page 59
https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist/134997583/
Sandra
Added The names of the two children with the initials you mentioned in the obituary are in reply 6
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Another possible if he used the middle initial.
1931 census Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
William Johnstone 46 Head
Jane Johnstone 43 Wife
Robert Johnstone 17 Son
John Bell Johnstone 15
Son William R Johnstone 7 Son
Sandra
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IF this is the correct family :
FIND A GRAVE
Father William Johnstone - 1884 - 1975
Saint Vital Cemetery
Saint-Vital, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
PLOT 02-0630-0
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40590722/william-johnstone
mother - Janet - 1887 - 1956
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40590722/william-johnstone
brother John B Johnstone -1916 - 2003
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40590721/john-b-johnstone
Sandra
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A death certificate for Joan Dallimore/Johnstone. Passed 18/12/1993
https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/69d5ed1c-39ab-4494-86b4-43de8b506784
https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/bfb9e99f-66fe-4994-bea9-842e52e7cd6f
Sandra
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Obit - Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Wed, 22 Dec 1993 Page 36
https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist/134997700/
Sandra
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Brother John B Johnstone - BORN: FEB 04, 1916
DATE OF PASSING: FEB 11, 2003
Obit mentions Dick and Ollie -
https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-75680/JOHNSTONE_JOHN ;D
Sandra
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Posted for information purposes - Still living 2000
Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Sat, 1 Jan 2000
Page 23
https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist/134998526/
Sandra
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Posted for information on people searching this family.
JOHNSTONE, William Richard (Dick) passed away May 13, 2014 in Jubilee Hospital
Published by Victoria Times Colonist from May 13 to May 15, 2015
https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/timescolonist/name/william-johnstone-obituary?id=43102606
Sandra
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First daughter "T" still living - married 1967 - will send link to clip via pm (with a few other snippets)
Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · Tuesday, April 18, 1967
Mentioned on page 5
https://tctrail.ca//wp-content/uploads/2020/02/088_Pavilion-Panels-Whitehorse.pdf
Sandra
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Canada Voters List shows the William R Johnstone was still with Joan in 1963 at Wilmer Street, Victoria. BC
William R Johnstone - RCN - appears with Olive E Johnstone - Floral Designer in 1968 at 904 Humboldt Street, Victoria. BC.
Believe this article refers to Ollie
The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sat, 24 Aug 1985 Page 17
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun/135056205/
Sandra
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Canada Voters List shows the William R Johnstone was still with Joan in 1963 at Wilmer Street, Victoria. BC
William R Johnstone - RCN - appears with Olive E Johnstone - Floral Designer in 1968 at 904 Humboldt Street, Victoria. BC.
Which website are you using for this Canada voters list ? I can't seem to find this particular entry on Ancestry. I might be missing seeing it.
Thank you so much for all of your wonderful help
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Ancestry Worldwide
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William and Olive E - 1968
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Perseverance paid - think I found Olive E Johnstone - passed 2021
Perhaps the funeral home would be able to give you further details.
Olive E. Johnstone
3 February 1922 – 18 May 2021
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/victoria-bc/olive-johnstone-10199984
Sandra
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Hello Jane* I am related to your Grandfather. I found this site by accident, so it was a surprise. I am willing to help you fit the pieces of your puzzle. I am not familiar with Roots Chat, so I would prefer to contact you privately over e-mail if possible.
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I really wish and hope JANE SHARP will read my previous post and contact me. I'm anxious to hear from her and assist her. D JOHNSTONE