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Messages - Ken MacLean

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Canada / Re: Alfred Thomas Wilson (ATW)
« on: Saturday 11 January 14 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
Geoff,

Is this the Wilson you are looking for? See Death Notification Card attached. Died 17-10-53, buried Mountain View Cemetery, Soldiers Plot, Blk 27, Plot 51, Lot 8.

http://tinyurl.com/m728xev

Cheers, Ken

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Canada / Re: Occupation "Crusterman"?
« on: Thursday 21 November 13 11:44 GMT (UK)  »
Crusherman it is!  Thanks sami.

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Canada / Occupation "Crusterman"?
« on: Thursday 21 November 13 02:46 GMT (UK)  »
My father's occupation in the 1921 Canadian census is "crusterman". Can't find any reference to the word on the web. He was employed in the mining industry in B.C.
Any ideas?

Cheers, Ken

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Canada / Re: RMC POLICEMAN
« on: Tuesday 19 November 13 09:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Louisa Maud-

Could you provide a full name for your man? I could look for him in the passenger manifests which would provide dates of arrival in Canada and his intended destination(s) in Canada.

Cheers, Ken

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Canada / Re: Canadian mining
« on: Wednesday 11 September 13 13:52 BST (UK)  »
Carol,

Google Nanaimo-coal. This will result in a few hits, including this Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coal_mines_and_landmarks_in_the_Nanaimo_area

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Canada / Re: Edward Handley Robinson, RCAF
« on: Wednesday 29 May 13 12:56 BST (UK)  »
Barry,

I posted your query on the RAF Commands forum and received the following:

The aircraft (Albemarle I, Serial No. P1528) crashed on take-off following an engine failure. Robinson was the only casualty.

www.rafcommands.com

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Canada / Re: Edward Handley Robinson, RCAF
« on: Sunday 26 May 13 13:13 BST (UK)  »
Robinson appears in RCAF casualty list #692 issued 28 September 1943. The two other RCAF deaths in the same list are buried in the U.K., so not killed or died of injuries in North Africa.

If other Canadians had been killed in action or died of injuries as members of that crew it is most likely that they would have appeared in that same casualty list.

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Canada / Canadian Veterans of the First World War-Death Notification Cards
« on: Sunday 14 April 13 13:26 BST (UK)  »
My apologies if this link has been posted previously, but I can not find it in Rootschat. The Canadian Veterans death notification cards have not been indexed, so a manual search is required. Following is extracted from the Library & Archives Canada website.

"When Veterans Affairs  (Canada) was notified of the death of a First World War veteran, a death card was created and those cards are now in the custody of Library and Archives Canada and are used as a finding aid to the personnel records of the First World War. These cards are the extent of this set of records; there are no files relating to the notification of death.

There are approximately 130,000 cards, which are arranged alphabetically in 99 cabinet drawers. The contents of each drawer were digitized as a batch of approximately 1300 cards each. The name on the first card in a drawer is the title of that group of cards.

You can move through the images one by one, or skip ahead by entering a new page (image) number in the page navigation box.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-110.02-e.php?&q2=36&interval=50&sk=0&&PHPSESSID=iob4e6ep4ablcosh18bubv7bk5

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Canada / Re: Canadian soldiers
« on: Monday 25 March 13 11:19 GMT (UK)  »
Attached link to Death Notification Card for 141870 Charles M. Brown (Library & Archives Canada).

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.01-e.php?q2=36&q3=2850&sqn=1169&tt=1373&PHPSESSID=iob4e6ep4ablcosh18bubv7bk5

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