Flora Rhodes DILGER British Columbia

[Macushla]

Good evening from Adelaide, South Australia.
I think I've just found my first Canadian connection.
I have a Flora RHODES, b. 30 Dec 1874 in Gomersal, Yorkshire, England, who I believe married Charles DILGER in Canada. I have a gravesite for the couple at Pleasant Street Cemetery, Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia.
According to the gravesite, Charles's dates are 1871 - 1938; Flora's are 1875 - 1948.
I know that Flora was still in England in 1901 as I found her in the census 'in training for Colonial employment'.
The next that I can find her - if I can prove this is all the same person - is a marriage in 1926 to Charles DILGER. I have no other dates etc.
I'm hoping that someone will please help me to see if there was an earlier marriage for Flora, and if so, if she had any children, and any further information about her, especially if it can help me to confirm that I am on the right track.
Many thanks in advance,
M.

[ShaunJ]

I can see an index entry for a marriage in Kamloops in 1907: Charles Dilger and Flora Rhodes.

[ShaunJ]

There's a Flora Rhodes on a 1901 list of women (and others) brought to Canada by the United British Women's Emigration Association.

[Macushla]

ShaunJ thank you so much!
I had planned to enter a dummy date for the marriage and somehow entered 01 Jan 1926. Thank you so much; I would have been way off track without this information. Kamloops makes sense as this is where they are buried.
Flora emigrating in 1901 makes perfect sense as that was the same year that she was training.
This is a great start for my research into Flora, I'm very grateful.

[ShaunJ]

Short press item about the recovery of Charles Dilger's body from Kamloops lake in 1938 after he had been missing for 8 days: 
https://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/digital/collection/herald/id/156732/

[*Sandra*]

Vancouver Daily World
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada •
Fri, 7 Jun 1907
Page 24

https://www.newspapers.com/article/vancouver-daily-world/174546606/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada •
Mon, 18 Jul 1938
Page 2

https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist/174546644/

The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada •
Fri, 26 Nov 1948
Page 36

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun/174546680/

The Province
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada •
Wed, 1 Dec 1948
Page 10

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province/174546706/

Sandra

[Macushla]

Sandra and ShaunJ, thank you both so much.
How very sad to read of Charles's death.

It looks like they did not have children as they are not mentioned in the articles about Flora's bequests.

[dbree]

Hi,

From British Columbia archives,

The 1907 marriage, Flora gives her parents as Robert and Mary Ann.
https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/4723b64e-3c8c-43c6-bf67-4af2dc495743

The 1948 death cert. for Flora. There is no next of kin listed.
https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/a0e6216e-5b71-4acc-9c46-5120745fd556

The 1938 death cert. Charles is only an index.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ttm/

DB