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Grandson of Loyalist James Peters was the Last Person in the History of New Brunswick to Die in a Duel of Honour
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by Sam McBride
I recently discovered a new Peters family "distinction", which is fascinating but at the same time tragic.
My maternal grandmother Mary Helen Peters Dewdney and her brother Capt. Frederic Thornton Peters, VC and other siblings had a close connection (first cousin, twice removed) with "The last person in New Brunswick to die in a duel of honour".
George Ludlow Wetmore (1789-1821) was a son of Thomas Wetmore and Sarah Peters, who was the only daughter of our mutual ancestors, James Peters and Margaret Lester, who left New York after the American Revolution as United Empire Loyalists and settled on the east coast of British North America in what later became the Canadian province of New Brunswick. One of Sarah's brothers was my great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Horsfield Peters.
Thomas Wetmore, father of George L. Wetmore who died in the duel.
George Ludlow Wetmore was a young lawyer who was often on opposite sides of cases with fellow lawyer George Frederick Street in Fredericton, New Brunswick. A case of mistaken identity was particularly contentious, with the two men coming close to blows on the way out of the courthouse. Wetmore`s father Thomas, who was attorney-general of the colony of New Brunswick at the time, was among the men who came between his son and Street on the courthouse steps to prevent a physical altercation.
Wetmore went home that evening and seethed with anger about what he perceived as unforgiveable insults from Street. He asked a friend to go to Street`s house the next morning and deliver an official challenge to a pistol duel of honour, which Street agreed to.
As dueling was illegal in New Brunswick at the time, the two men had to be quiet in making arrangements to meet the next day in a field southwest of Fredericton, along with one friend of each man who served as a "second" in the duelling tradition. The wives of Street and Wetmore were kept in the dark about the duel along with everyone else. Wetmore and wife Harriet Rainsford had three children, including Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, destined to be premier of the province of New Brunswick in the new nation Canada from 1867 to 1870 and then become a Supreme Court judge. Harriet was also eight-months pregnant as her husband committed to the duel.
In the early morning of October 2, 1821 the duelists went through the ritual of standing with their backs together, walking 15 paces and then turning and shooting at each other without stopping to aim. Both missed hitting the other man, which was not a surprise in that era of primitive gun technology.
That should have been the end to it, but there had been talk that the duel was not entirely fair because Wetmore had a better-quality pistol than Street. Wetmore insisted that his honour required a second duel to be performed, this time with the men using each other`s pistols. In the second shooting, Wetmore`s bullet missed hitting Street, but Street`s bullet hit Wetmore`s wrist and deflected to his head.
The seriously wounded Wetmore was taken to a nearby farmhouse and calls for assistance went out, including to his wife Harriet. Wetmore was still alive when she arrived. In her despair at his deathbed Harriet pledged to name their upcoming child George in honour of the noble father, even if the child was not a boy. She also decided to never talk to, or have anything to do with, anyone in the Street family. This she did, until her death at age 94 in 1885.
Fearing retribution for Wetmore`s death, Street and his second Richard Davies rode their horses west and crossed the U.S. border into Maine. In December they decided to return to Fredericton and face the music. Street went on trial for murder in February 1822, and was acquitted, as the prevailing opinion was that Wetmore`s actions caused his death as much as Street`s.
On Oct. 29, 1821 Harriet had a baby daughter, who she named George Ludlow Harriet Wetmore. In 1844 the young lady named George married Jasper Murphy and they had 14 children.
Listing of the Wetmore family in the 1896 book "A Peters Lineage". The reference to the lady George named after her father who died in the duel is at the bottom.
George Ludlow Harriet Murphy died in 1909 at age 88 — shunning the Streets her whole life. It was not easy for the two families to avoid each other, as they tended to be in the same social and work circles.
The Street and Wetmore families were not on good terms even before the 1821 duel. The Streets, who came to New Brunswick directly from England, resented the Wetmore and Peters clans because as Loyalists they generally received larger grants of land from British authorities, as well as preference in government appointments.
A generation earlier, on January 16, 1800, Street`s father, Samuel Denny Street, had fought a duel with John Murray Bliss. Both shots missed, and Bliss declined the senior Street`s request for a second round of shots. Bliss`s son George Pidgeon Bliss would marry George Ludlow Wetmore`s sister Sarah in 1819. Their daughter Sophie Bliss married William Carman, and their children included the prominent New Brunswick poet Bliss Carman, who was a cousin of Helen and "Fritz" Peters, who were born and spent early childhood years in nearby Prince Edward Island before moving west with the family to British Columbia.
George Frederick Street subsequently said he regretted killing George Ludlow Wetmore in the duel, but he turned to dueling once again in 1834 when he challenged Henry George Clopper. Clopper declined the challenge, in line with public sentiment which had become overwhelmingly against dueling, largely because of the death of Wetmore a decade earlier. Street went on to serve as a judge in New Brunswick. His fellow judges in New Brunswick included Wetmore's uncles Charles Jeffery Peters and Thomas Horsfield Peters, and his cousin James Horsfield Peters (grandfather of Fritz Peters and Helen Peters) who was a longtime judge close by in Prince Edward Island.
The Wetmore-Street feud lasted until June 27, 1994 at the same location where the duel occurred 173 years before. Descendants of the Wetmore and Street families were invited to the unveiling of a historical display based on the famous duel, including the original pistols. During the proceedings, members of the two families shook hands to mark an end to the feud.
Brandon Manitoba Sun, June 28, 1994
Today the Wetmore-Street Pub and Eatery is a popular restaurant in the small community of New Maryland, New Brunswick, near the site of the fatal duel.
https://www.vonm.ca/living/the-street-wetmore-duel
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/wetmore_george_ludlow_6E.html
The McBride Family was prominent in London, Ontario 1830s to 1990s
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My great-great-great-grandparents Richard McBride and Elizabeth McCormick left their home in County Down, Ireland for Canada in 1831, according to later newspaper accounts and family history notes made by their granddaughter`s husband Harry Bapty in the 1920s.
family tree of my father Leigh McBride going back three generations. His father R.L. McBride left London, Ontario for British Columbia in 1900.
County Down is in Ulster, southeast of Belfast. At the time of their emigration, the region was in the midst of economic strife associated with the Industrial Revolution, and strife between religions. The McBrides were Presbyterians who migrated years before to Northern Ireland from Scotland. They found themselves in a congested, problematic land under the thumb of the established Church of Ireland. On the other side of society were the Roman Catholics, who rebelled against the authority of England and the Established Church.
Richard McBride was born in 1792 in County Down and died in 1850 in London, Ontario. The exodus to Canada was a family affairs for the McBrides, as five of his younger siblings left for Canada in the same period. These siblings (along with spouse), were William McBride and wife Agnes McIllvene, Alexander McBride and wife Jane Shields, Thomas McBride and wife Ann Oswald, Stephenson (also known as Stephen and Steney) McBride on his own, and Elizabeth McBride and husband John G. Boyd. I will note the children and vital statistics (birth, baptism, marriage, death details, when available) in later posts. Unfortunately, there is no information on the parents or any other ancestors of these McBride siblings going back in time in Ireland and Scotland.
Family details of the McBrides in London, Ontario, written in the 1920s by Harry Bapty.
Something new for me in genealogical research involves working from connections made through ancestry.com DNA tests to confirm the family tree details we have from documents and memories. After submitting a saliva sample in November 2015 I received a report of my ethnic make-up as well as DNA links with others who have participated in the ancestry DNA program. One of the newly-found distant cousins was a lady in Fort Wayne, Indiana who was a descendant of William McBride and Agnes McIllvene, who settled in Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario by the mid-1800s. Our common ancestors would be the unknown parents of Richard and William McBride and their siblings, so we are fifth cousins, as estimated by ancestry.com to be highly likely.
In this post I will focus on the descendants of Richard McBride and Elizabeth McCormick, particularly their son (and my great-great-grandfather) Samuel McBride (1819-1905).
Samuel was just 12 years of age when he joined his parents and siblings in a horrific voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to a new life in pioneer Upper Canada. They were among 500 passengers crammed into a 300-ton sailing ship which got off course and took an excruciating eight weeks to cross the Atlantic. Samuel and older brother William, 14, were told by their parents to look after their younger siblings, including John, 10, and Eliza, 8. Another sister, whose name is lost to history, died during the voyage – not surprising, as many passengers suffered from starvation and serious illness – and was buried at sea.
William McBride, who served as Mayor of London and was active in civic affairs.
The McBrides first settled in Upper Canada at or near Kingston, then Coburg, then Niagra, then Brantford, and finally London, where the McBride name would be prominent for more than a century and a half.
It was in Coburg that the last children of the family were born. Elizabeth had twins, of which one unnamed boy died. The boy who survived was Alexander McBride (1833-1912), who married Lucy Munson and in 1886 would be the first of the McBride-McCormick clan to go west as they left for the future province of Alberta due to Lucy`s asma condition. Alexander turned out to be the most successful businessman in the family, as he partnered with his brother Samuel in a retail business in London and went on to be a dominant force in the hardware store business in Alberta and British Columbia.
Brother William McBride (1817-1881), who married Charlotte Hillier, would gain renown in London as a carriage maker, as the City of London`s sixth Mayor, as the first Secretary of the Western Fair Society, and as a victim in the worst disaster in London`s history, the sinking of the ship Victoria in the Thames River in May 1881. William and Charlotte`s great-great-grandson Bob McBride of Indian River, Ontario has done a tremendous amount of research on the McBride family over the years, and has greatly inspired me to do further research and writing of the family history. It was Bob who made the important discovery of Elizabeth`s maiden name as McCormick, which will hopefully lead us someday to learn the names and backgrounds of the parents of the McBride children who left County Down for Canada.
Samuel McBride was also prominent in London, both as a hardy tinsmith (a trade often contracted as "tinker"), and in many capacities as a volunteer, including two decades of service as an alderman, as an officer in the Volunteer Fire Brigade, as Secretary of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Society, and with a number of church-related activities. While still a teen-ager, he served in the militia called up in response to the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Samuel was in relatively good health up until his death at 86 in 1905. During his later years he was respected as a London pioneer, and was the subject of several feature stories by local newspapers.
Eliza also enjoyed 86 years of life. She married Alexander Lowrie and had a son Edwin and daughter Eliza Jane. Family historian Harry Bapty married Eliza Jane Bapty and they had five children.
Obituary information on Samuel`s mother Elizabeth McCormick and his first wife Elizabeth Webster in the Christian Guardian publication.
Bios of William McBride and Samuel McBride written in the 1920s by descendants.
Alexander McBride (1833-1912) was born in Cobourg, Upper Canada, the only child of the original McBride-McCormick family from County Down to be born in Canada. He was the best businessman in the family, starting a hardware store with his tinsmith brother Samuel. He moved west in the 1880s and was mayor of Calgary in 1896. His Calgary-based company established hardware stores in Alberta and British Columbia, including Cranbrook where his son J.D. McBride ran the local store, and Rossland, where his nephew George Walter McBride was manager, and his great-nephew Roland Leigh McBride later worked before joining the Wood Vallance company in Nelson.
In June 1994, soon after I began researching the family tree, I visited George and Jean McBride in London, Ontario. They gave me a wonderful tour of the city, including the Mt Pleasant Cemetery where more than 20 McBride descendants and extended family members are buried. George is a descendant of William McBride, who came to Canada as a 14-year-old in 1831, and his wife Charlotte Hillier. In the photo, George and Jean are beside the tombstone of William and Charlotte. Photo by Sam McBride
Boyhood memories of London, Ontario in the 1860s and 1870s by Walter Clement Morgan
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Later in life, my paternal great-grandmother Fanny Morgan McBride`s brother Walter Clement Morgan (1861-1940) wrote an excellent seven-page story of his memories growing up in London, Ontario. Based on correspondence with his niece Edith McBride Munroe, it appears he wrote down his memories in response to her request. Edith (1884-1965) was the younger sister of my grandfather Roland Leigh McBride (1881-1959), as well as brother George Everett McBride (1877-1954) and sister Fanny Josephine McBride Rollins (1883-1965).
Walter Morgan was born December 14, 1861 in London, Ont., and died in 1940 in Buffalo, New York. He was the youngest child of the Morgan family. His eldest sibling, sister Fanny (born in Monmouthshire in 1848, died in London, Ont. in 1919) was a dressmaker and an outstanding soprano who sang as a professional before marrying Richard McBride, and then for many years in London churches. The other siblings were Fred (born in 1851), Alice (born 1858), Bessie (born 1858) and Margaret (born in 1850 and died young). They are mentioned in Walter`s memoirs, along with Fred Lashbrook, whose wife Ella McBride was a cousin of Fanny`s husband Richard McBride (1843-1921). Walter worked as a railroad clerk and moved to the United States in 1881.
Walter`s parents — farmer James Morgan (1823-1907) and wife Margaret Hanbury (1818-1896) — emigrated with baby Fanny from Monmouthshire to Canada in 1849 and settled in London, Ontario, where the McBride family from County Down in Ulster had settled nine years earlier. James Morgan was the son of James Morgan Sr. (1800-1843) and Anne Constance (1800-1845. Margaret Hanbury was the daughter of Clement Hanbury (1778-1858) and Mary White (1798-?). The documentation is not solid, but we believe Clement Hanbury was the son of Thomas Hanbury (1745-1819) and Mary Hetherton (1750-1813), connecting to a line of aristocratic Hanburys going back to the 1100s.
Here is Walter Morgan`s story about Life in London.
page 1 of 7 W.C. Morgan
Walter Morgan also wrote a letter to his niece Edith which mentions his memories of growing up in London, Ontario.
page 1 of Walt Morgan letter to Edith McBride Munroe
Fanny Morgan as a young lady. Family collection
At the 1917 marriage in London, Ontario of Edith McBride and Garfield Munroe, her parents Richard McBride and Fanny Morgan pose with the young couple. Family Collection.
Fanny Morgan concert poster, 1868
obituary of Fanny McBride in 1919.
c. 1956, from left: Winnifred Foote McBride, grandson Sam McBride, Roland Leigh McBride, Edith McBride Munroe, and Dee Dee Dewdney McBride. Photo taken at Nelson, B.C. house with Central School in background. Family collection.
Public-spirited Banker Ted Dewdney was Popular and Respected Throughout the West Kootenay Region
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My grandfather Edgar Edwin Lawrence "Ted" Dewdney overcame a traumatic childhood to become a solid family man, a loyal long-term employee and an energetic supporter and builder of communities throughout southern British Columbia.
Ted`s mother Carrie Leigh Dewdney. Family photo
Ted`s father, Walter Dewdney from Devonshire c. 1875. BC Archives photo G-08993
He died in 1952 when I was a baby so I never knew him, but I have many positive memories of my grandmother Helen who came to live with our family after her husband's death and was a popular presence in my parents' house until she died in 1976. She often talked of Ted as a good man and reliable husband, but rarely mentioned details of his childhood. His children could not recall Ted ever talking to them about his parents. Fortunately, Ted and Helen left a good collection of photographs, letters and memorabilia that are an impressive record of their lives. To supplement that with information on Ted's parents and his childhood, I have consulted public records, web sites, newspaper articles from the time and other people's diaries and letters.
Ted's mother Matilda Caroline "Carrie" Leigh died of childbirth-related causes in Victoria in 1885 when he was four, and then shortly after his 11th birthday Ted was first on the scene after his father, government agent and gold commissioner Walter Dewdney, committed suicide in his office at the family home in Vernon by shooting himself in the head. Walter was in despair from severe pain due to a kidney disorder and lingering pain from injuries from falling off a horse that could not be treated by doctors of the time. Pranksters had put tacks under his horse`s saddle that caused the horse to buck in pain as soon as Walter mounted. His kidneys were affected by the cholera he contracted while serving in the British cavalry in the Crimean War. He also had just received bad news from England, and thought he was losing his mind.
Ted was fortunate to have the support until adulthood of family friends and his famous uncle Edgar Dewdney. He was even more fortunate in June 1912 to wed Helen Peters, a supportive partner through 40 years of marriage.
Edgar Edwin Lawrence Dewdney was born December 26, 1880 in Victoria. His first name was a tribute to his uncle Edgar, who was also his godfather. It is likely that his middle names were given in honour of his mother's brother Edwin Leigh, and John Lawrence who married his father's sister Fanny. He was known as Ted or Teddy in the family to distinguish him from his uncle Edgar, who was known in the family as Ned.
Ted Dewdney (right) in September 1891 with his sister Rose and brother Walter. Family photo.
Ted`s maternal grandfather William Leigh from Warwickshire, who was city clerk in Victoria, B.C. from 1864 to 1884.
Ted`s father Walter Dewdney with second wife Clara Chipp, after their marriage in 1888.
Ted had a brother three years old named Walter Robert Dewdney – known by family and friends as "W.R." – and a sister one year older Rose Valentine Dewdney. Their mother Carrie was a daughter of Matilda Sarah Capron and William Leigh, who came to Victoria from England in the 1850s as an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and was Victoria's city clerk for 20 years before his death in 1884. In his reminiscences in later years, the Hon. Edgar Dewdney said he had a job for a short period of time cutting hay with a fellow named Lee who he had known in London before they both came to British Columbia. It may well have been William Leigh, who had been in the construction business in London and was managing the Uplands Farm in Victoria when Edgar arrived in 1859. Born in Devonshire, Ted's father Walter was encouraged to come to British Columbia by his brother Edgar who had made a name for himself soon after arriving in B.C. as builder of the Dewdney Trail.
One of Ted Dewdney`s most treasured possessions in his later years was this autographed photograph of his famous uncle, Edgar Dewdney, taken in 1883. Family photo.
Walter came to B.C. from India after retiring in 1866 with 12 years of service in the British Army with the elite cavalry regiment, the 17th Lancers, including the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny, where he earned the India Mutiny Medal. The cholera he contracted in Turkey en route to the Crimean War may have actually saved Walter`s life, because his unit was in the famous, extraordinarily reckless Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava which resulted in horrific casualties among the British forces. Walter had a roller-coaster army career, joining at age 16 (perhaps using his older brother Edgar`s identification), then rising surprisingly quickly to Troop Sergeant Major before being knocked back down to private, the rank he held upon leaving the army. His offences included allowing himself to get sunburned. Three years after Carrie's death, Walter in April 1888 married Clara Chipp, who is often mentioned along with the Dewdneys in the diaries of her friend Alice Barrett Parke.
Ted`s uncle and guardian, the Hon. Edgar Dewdney, and aunt Jane (known as Jeannie) in their retirement years, along with an itchy dog. Family photio.
Ted had four periods of residence in the Vernon area. First, as a boy between 1885 and 1892; then for short periods in the early 1900s when he was seconded from his position with the Bank of Montreal at Rossland to fill in for a few months at the branches in Vernon and Kelowna, then for a year as clerk at the branch in nearby Armstrong in 1907-08, and then from 1912 to 1915 in the first three years of his marriage when he was an accountant with the bank's Vernon office.
After Walter Dewdney`s death on January 25, 1892, there was confusion over autopsy requirements which resulted in the body remaining in place for two days before removal, causing further stress for the family. The three Dewdney children went to nearby Spallumcheen to live for a while with the Rev. Alfred Shildrick and his wife, who was a sister of the wife of Rev. Henry Irwin – famous in frontier B.C. as "Father Pat". Both reverends were friends of the Dewdney family. Then, after Ted's uncle Edgar began his term as Lieutenant Governor of B.C. in November 1892, the three children went to reside with Edgar and Jane "Jeanie" Dewdney (who had no children of their own) in the spacious, but poorly designed, vice regal residence, Cary Castle. The children maintained contact with their stepmother Clara, who genuinely cared for them and hosted them in visits back to Vernon.
Ted, left, with book, and his cousin Louisa Allison and one of her brothers, on a break in the Dewdney family`s visit to Rossland in 1896. Touchstone Archives photo.
The Hon. Edgar Dewdney became the legal guardian of Walter`s children in 1893. Edgar was generally kind and cared for Walter's children, as well as the 14 children of Jeanie's sister Susan Allison. Several of Susan's children stayed with the Dewdneys while studying in Victoria. Jeannie also cared for her nephews and nieces but was very strict with them. She was thrilled to be hostess of Cary Castle for social functions and made that her priority. Ted's sister Rose in particular found Aunt Jeannie oppressive compared to her stepmother Clara who allowed her considerable liberty and was good to her in Vernon. "Rosie", as she was called in the family and in the Parke diaries, married Charles S. Keating April 30, 1898 in a quick and quiet wedding and they settled in Seattle, where their only child Harriet (always known in the family as Hattie) was born October 24, 1898. According to the Parke diaries, Ted's brother W.R. Dewdney had an affliction that caused him to spend 18 months in the provincial asylum starting in mid-1897 when he was 20. He miraculously recovered and went on to a full life in generally good health, but the crisis of his institutionalization at the time would have been another source of stress for his younger brother Ted. Then Clara, who had married William Fraser Cameron in 1894, came to a sad end. Suffering horribly from cancer, she committed suicide on December 17, 1900 by drinking carbolic acid.
Diaries of Alice Peake of Vernon, a good friend of Ted`s stepmother Clara Chipp Dewdney, are a good source of information on Ted`s life as a boy in Vernon, B.C.
Ted at right, in another photo of the Dewdney travelling party who visited Rossland in 1896. The lady beside Ted is Jeannie Dewdney. then Frank Beard, personal secretary to the Lt.-Governor, and a lady named Puss. Touchstones photo.
Ted was an avid reader of history, novels and poetry and wanted to enroll in college like his brother Walter, but his uncle Edgar insisted that Ted "go to the bank" to get an early start in the business world with a leading Canadian company. Aside from being forced into banking against his will, Ted had no complaints about his uncle Edgar. In fact, Ted admired his famous uncle and guardian for his achievements as an engineer and in politics. Edgar had a special regard for Ted as the youngest child, and one who shared his interest in history and literature. In addition to being his namesake, Edgar was Ted`s godfather.
Ted began with the bank in New Westminster as a trainee teller at age 16 on November 1, 1897. Three years later he was transferred to the mining boomtown of Rossland to work as a clerk at the local branch of the Bank of Montreal under well-known manager J.S.C. Fraser. One of Ted's duties with the bank was to transport the payroll by horseback to the smelter workers at Northport. A talented tennis player, Ted won the West Kootenay championship three years in a row 1904-1906 and a variety of trophies that were custom-made using locally-produced copper and silver.
Mary Helen Peters – known by family and friends as Helen — was born in Charlottetown in 1887 and moved to Victoria at age 10 with her family. Her father, Charlottetown lawyer Fred Peters, entered provincial politics in 1890 and the following year became Prince Edward Island's first Liberal premier. In 1897 he abruptly resigned as premier and moved his family across the continent where he established a law firm in Victoria in partnership with Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper of Halifax. Peters and Tupper built complementary homes next door to each other in Victoria's Oak Bay district, where their neighbours included the Hon. Edgar Dewdney. Helen's mother Bertha Gray was the youngest of five daughters of Prince Edward Island's Father of Confederation John Hamilton Gray and his wife Susan Bartley Pennefather.
The form above and two forms below were filled out by Ted when he became eligible for Canada`s Old Age Pension. To qualify for the pension, he had to specify in the forms where he lived throughout his life. He submitted the form and kept a copy for his records. In telling the story of his life, this information is very valuable, as it shows where he was living and working year by year, and the numerous moves he was required to make in his career with the bank.
Edgar Dewdney, looking distinguished at age 76, beside Helen and in front of Ted at their wedding in 1912. This is the only photo in the family collection that shows Edgar with Ted or Helen.
The eldest of six children, Helen experienced the loss of each of her siblings in tragic circumstances. Her six-year-old sister Violet Avis Peters died in 1905 in a fireplace accident at the family's home in Victoria. Her brother Private John Francklyn Peters died at age 22 on April 24, 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres and brother Lieutenant Gerald Hamilton Peters died at 21 on June 3, 1916 in the Battle of Mount Sorrell. In both cases, the brothers were serving with the 7th British Columbia battalion when they died.
Both Jack and Gerald Peters worked before the war as bank clerks in Prince Rupert, following the example of their brother-in-law Ted in the banking business. Gerald's non-identical twin, Noel Quintan Peters, had a learning disability or psychological condition which made his life miserable. After numerous transfers in the army because he was rejected by fellow soldiers Noel was accepted for the Forestry Corps in 1917. After World War One he became estranged from his family, lived in poor circumstances and died at Shaughnessy Veterans Hospital in Vancouver in 1964. Helen's eldest brother, Capt. Frederic Thornton "Fritz" Peters, won numerous medals for bravery in both world wars, including the Victoria Cross for leading the attack on Oran Harbour in the Allied invasion of North Africa on November 8, 1942. He miraculously survived the Oran action against point blank fire, but died five days later when the plane returning him to England crashed in bad weather in Plymouth Sound.
Ted and Helen's first child, Evelyn Mary Lawrence Dewdney, was born December 6, 1913 in Vernon. When Helen's parents and brothers came to Vernon to see the new addition, it was the last time Helen would see Jack and Gerald.
Son Frederic Hamilton Bruce (known throughout his life as Peter) Dewdney was born May 2, 1917 in New Denver and daughter Rose Pamela (known as Dee Dee) was born June 29, 1924 in Rossland.
Ted Dewdney (left) and a Bank of Montreal colleague in about 1900. Family photo.
When war broke out in August 1914 Ted at 33 was past ideal military age and had family responsibilities. As a married man, his enlistment required the written approval of his wife Helen, who felt the family had contributed enough to the war with her four younger brothers enlisted, or trying to enlist. Had the war come a decade earlier he would have been first in line as he was single and serving in the Rocky Mountain Rangers militia in Rossland, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant. Ironically, William Hart-McHarg, who was Ted`s commanding officer in the first years that he served with the Rocky Mountain Rangers in Rossland, 13 years later was the colonel in command of 7th British Columbia battalion in which Jack Peters died at the 2nd Battle of Ypres. Hart McHarg, who had left Rossland for Vancouver in November 1902 along with his law partner J.L.G. Abbott, died shortly before Jack Peters, as he was spotted by German soldiers when reconnoitering the battlefield on April 23, 1915, following the desperate action the day before when the Germans used poison gas for the first time in battle. Hart-McHarg, a lawyer in Rossland and later in Vancouver who had served in the Boer War, also knew Helen`s father Fred Peters from legal work they did together in the Alaska Boundary Dispute in the early 1900s.
Lieutenant William F.R. Hart-McHarg, champion marksman and author of From Quebec to Pretoria with the Royal Canadian Regiment, was Ted`s commanding officer when he joined the RMR Rossland militia in 1901. .
There were several other interesting links between the Dewdney family and the Peters family long before Ted and Helen married in 1912. In the early 1890s Helen`s father, lawyer Frederick Peters, was premier of Prince Edward Island but he could not make ends meet on the modest premier salary of $1,000 per year, so he took on separate legal work to support his family. The largest, and most prominent, of these side jobs was serving as counsel for the British and Canadian side in the Bering Sea Sealing Dispute with the United States. The other lead counsel on the British/Canadian side was Nova Scotian Charles Hibbert Tupper, who was son of the Father of Confederation Tupper, and a past federal cabinet minister in his own right with Conservative governments of Sir John A. Macdonald. When the British/Canadian team won the international arbitration to settle the dispute in 1893, Tupper was knighted and Peters expected similar honours but did not receive them, because he was a strong Liberal, and the federal Conservatives were in power at the time.
Fred Peters in about 1889 with daughter Helen in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Family photo.
Fred Peters` work on the sealing dispute required him to make at least two trips from his home in Charlottetown to Victoria, B.C. It was during one of those trips west that Tupper introduced Peters to his former federal cabinet colleague, Edgar Dewdney, who was in his first years of service as lieutenant governor of B.C. The three men found they had a common interest in mining, which they saw as s source of wealth for the country, and hopefully themselves as well if they picked the right prospects to invest in, and serve on promising mining companies as directors and officers. This involvement was small-scale until gold was discovered in Klondike Creek in the Yukon, setting off the spectacular Klondike Gold Rush, which attracted would-be miners and investors from around the world to the Yukon, and also to Pacific Northwest centres like Victoria that were booming as supply points to the Klondike gold creeks. Peters and Tupper struck a bond to move to Victoria with their families, build wide-by-side homes in the new subdivision of Oak Bay, and set up a law partnership known as Tupper and Peters. They wold use the same architect, J.R. Tiarks, who had recently built the home in the same neighborhood that Edgar and Jane Dewdney moved to when his term as lieutenant governor expired. So it is likely that Helen first met the Dewdneys soon after arriving as a 10-year-old in 1898, and Ted may have met Fred Peters several years earlier at Cary Castle.
Colonel James Peters, when he was a captain in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885.
The only relative in Victoria when the Peters family from PEI arrived in 1898 was Fred`s cousin Col. James Peters (1853-1927), who was born in New Brunswick, joined the forces at age 13 as a bugler and was a career soldier and officer with Canadian forces, including as a captain in charge of an artillery battery in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. In 1887, Peters, now a Major, commanded a 100-man company that travelled from Quebec to Victoria to establish the first permanent defense force on the West Coast of Canada. A cousin of Helen`s mother Bertha Gray, Major Edward W. Jarvis (1846-1894) of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, also served with the Canadian government forces in the Northwest Rebellion. So, including top government official Edgar Dewdney, both Ted and Helen had relatives closely involved in the 1885 action.
As District Officer Commanding for B.C., Col. James Peters in 1898 established Rocky Mountain Rangers militia companies in Rossland, Nelson and Kaslo to defend the rich Kootenay mines from potential American invaders. Col. Peters was transferred to central Canada a year later, but was back in Victoria in 1908 to finish his military career and settle in retirement.
When Fred Peters was unable to make it to his daughter Helen`s wedding in 1912, his cousin Col. James Peters fulfilled the father`s role in the ceremony of giving away the bride.
Ted`s career with the Bank of Montreal took him to an array of B.C. communities. After working in the New Westminster, Greenwood, Rossland, Vernon and Kelowna branches he worked at Armstrong in 1907-1908, Victoria 1908-1911, back to Rossland 1911-1912, and at Vernon 1912-1915. An important breakthrough was his first appointment as manager in Greenwood in 1915. A year later he transferred to New Denver to manage the bank's office in the heart of the famous Silvery Slocan region. From 1920 to 1927 Ted managed the bank's Rossland branch, moving to Trail for two years until 1929 when he moved to the Nelson branch which he managed until his retirement in 1940 after 43 years with the Bank of Montreal.
Note in the Touchstone Archives with handwriting of Edgar Dewdney saying to leave a photo album of a Vancouver Island camping trip "at my death to Teddy Dewdney".
Among the heirlooms treasured by Ted's descendants are impressive plaques of appreciation presented to him by his friends and colleagues in Rossland in 1907, and to Ted and Helen from New Denver residents in 1920. The Rosslanders wrote: "We have observed and appreciated your kindly nature, your high sense of honor, your sterling integrity, and other manly and admirable traits of character. Quiet and unobtrusive in your communication and association with your fellow men, you have nevertheless made a host of friends who will ever watch with keenest interest your future career." His farewell party at the Rossland Club was announced in two front page stories, as well as a full inside page of the Rossland Miner newspaper reporting his Farewell Party at the Rossland Club. The umbrella embossed in bronze with best wishes from fellow members of the Rocky Mountain Rangers militia exists today as a family heirloom.
Ted in early 1900s
Badge of the Rocky Mountain Rangers militia
According to the Rossland Miner, Ted`s farewell event in 1907 was organized by his boss, J.S.C. Fraser, considered the dean of the pioneer Kootenay bankers, who was the first president of the Rossland Club a decade earlier. Based on the comments and gifts, it appears Ted's closest friends were his comrades in the Rocky Mountain Rangers (RMR) militia, which he joined as a private upon arriving in Rossland at age 19 in 1900, and rose to lieutenant over seven years "by close attention to duty and by a diligent study of military tactics", according to the Miner. The RMR wrote and produced the plaque – which was referred to as an "address" in the newspaper report — and also gave Ted an umbrella with an inscribed brass handle, which exists today as a family heirloom. His presents from other groups included a saddle and bridle which Ted, an accomplished horseman, said he would enjoy using in the good riding country around Armstrong. As a boy, Ted was taught how to ride by his father Walter, a British Army cavalry veteran with extensive knowledge of horses and riding, including dramatic cavalry charges.
Among the attendees at his farewell party W.S. Rugh of the Northport Smelting and Refining Company, who knew Ted well from his payroll delivery rides.
Rocky Mountain Rangers militia record showing Lieutenant E.E.L. Dewdney earned $24 RMR pay in 1906-07
Rev. Cleland thanked Ted for his extraordinary contributions to the Anglican Church as a volunteer, and members of the Rossland Tennis Club noted that Ted had recently won the West Kootenay Tennis Championship for the third year in a row, beating, among others, a young Selwyn G. Blaylock who would be one of Ted's lifelong friends.
This photo, 10 inches high and 14 inches wide, which Ted kept as a souvenir of his Rossland years, is of the Rocky Mountain Rangers militia where he served for seven years, rising from private to lieutenant. The man holding the dog has a Boer War medal. The group is posing with their Maxim Gun, bugles, Lee Enfield .303 rifles, and slouched hats that style those used in the recent Boer War. Photo taken and printed by Thomas H. Gowman, who had a photo studio on Columbia Avenue in Rossland. Family photo, circa 1906
Detail of the Rocky Mountain Rangers photo (10th in from the right side) of a militia private who resembles Ted Dewdney of the early 1900s.
There was no byline on the Miner article, but it was likely written by the editor/publisher, W.K. "Billy" Esling, who was a member of the Rossland Club and would later represent West Kootenay in parliament for almost 20 years.
In making his presentation, Capt. A.B. Mackenzie of the RMR said: "Whether in private, social or business life, your kind and affable manner and genial good nature will long be missed. …We honor and respect you as a loyal Canadian and as one of Rossland's most estimable pioneers."
Tennis trophies Ted won in Rossland between 1902 and 1907. Author photo.
Rossland was referred to at the gathering as "the dear old camp", reflecting the affection those present had for their community. After Ted thanked the gathering for their kindness and hospitality, Dr. Kenning interjected the applause with a comment "I can see your finish, Mr. Dewdney; you'll soon be a manager!"
The farewell celebrations began at the all-male, white-collar Rossland Club on the west end of Columbia Avenue at 9 pm. The Miner reported that Ted received an oxidized copper cigar box as a gift from the ladies of Rossland at a reception later in the evening at the residence of Mrs. William Martin.
A common refrain at the farewell events was the wish that Ted keep in touch with them and some day return to the city.
Ted Dewdney's memorabilia includes this postcard of the famous Father Pat (Rev. Henry Irwin) and his church in Rossland. Ted was a good friend of Father Pat (1859-1902) and his sister-in-law, Family collection.
By 1907, the numbers of men in the Rossland company of the RMR were declining, just as the overall economy of Rossland had declined due to lower metal prices and depleted mines after the boom years. In 1908, the RMR groups in Rossland, Kaslo and Nelson were consolidated into the 102nd Regiment based in Nelson. An RMR company formed in Armstrong in 1908, but there is no record indicating Ted was ever in it.
As it turned out, the bank would bring Ted back to Rossland twice. After a year in Armstrong he was transferred to Victoria, where he began courting his future wife Helen Peters who was living with her parents and brothers on Lampson Street in Esquimalt. The bank transferred him back to Rossland as accountant in 1911. After marrying Helen in June 1912 the couple moved to his new appointment in Vernon, where Ted had lived for several years as a boy.
Dr. Kenning's prediction came true in 1915 when Ted accepted his first appointment as manager, initially with the Greenwood branch. A year later the bank transferred him to manage the New Denver branch. In late 1916 Helen's mother Bertha Gray Peters came for an extended stay with her daughter's family as she was grieving the deaths of two sons early in the war. After her husband Fred Peters' death in 1919 in Prince Rupert, Bertha came to live permanently with the Dewdneys until she died in Nelson in 1946.
Ted and Helen at the doorstep of their Vernon, B.C. home with their first child, Eve, born Dec. 6, 1913. Family photo.
Ted in December 1913 at home in Vernon with baby Eve. Family photo.
The former Bank of Montreal building in New Denver — which today houses the Silvery Slocan Museum — had rooms upstairs for Ted Dewdney and his family 1916-1920 while he was branch manager. Author photo.
Letter from General Manager of the Bank of Montreal advising Ted that he was transferred to manage the New Denver branch.
Son Peter Dewdney was born in 1917, and then in 1920 Ted was transferred once again back to Rossland. As manager, he and the family lived in the Bank House on Columbia Avenue. In 1927 the family, now including daughter Dee Dee born in 1924, moved to Trail and lived in quarters above the bank office managed by Ted.
Ted circa 1940. Family photo
His final move was to Nelson where his service as branch manager began in October 1929 just as the Depression was beginning. The family lived at the Bank House on Carbonate Street until Ted retired from the bank in 1940, and the family moved to a Victorian era house on Stanley Street. After Ted's death from a heart attack at 71 in July 1952, Helen resided on a permanent basis with daughter Dee Dee and the McBride family in Nelson. Helen brought Ted's memorabilia with her when the family moved to Trail in 1969 when her son-in-law Leigh McBride began a job in Cominco's law department.
The New Denver plaque included a cheque for $225 raised as a present from amongst the community. In 2011 Ted`s descendants donated the plaque to the Silvery Slocan Museum in New Denver, which was the Bank of Montreal manager house when Ted and his family lived there. Today the plaque and a framed 1925 photograph of the Dewdney family are featured in the bank display section of the museum.
As manager Ted faced the challenge of increasing the bank's business in communities that were often in decline due to depleted mines and low metal prices. Ted and family arrived for his final appointment in Nelson in October 1929 just as the Great Depression began.
The Bank of Montreal provided a "bank house" for its managers to live in, but was skimpy in paying for business-related expenses. The letter from head office advising of his appointment to New Denver stated annual salary of $1,600 and $300 for expenses. As hostess of numerous social and business functions at the bank houses, Helen was almost as much an employee of the bank as her husband.
This framed statement, called an "address", 19 inches wide and 24 inches high, was presented to Ted by well-wishers at The Rossland Club on August 2, 1907, as one of his farewell gifts, as the Bank of Montreal was transferring him to Armstrong, B.C. after seven years in Rossland. He obviously valued the gift because he kept it for the rest of his life, including a dozen moves to new communities and houses. Author photo.
Engraved golden handle of the umbrella presented by "A" Company, Rocky Mountain Rangers (RMR) to Lieut. Ted Dewdney at his farewell party on August 2, 1907. Author photo.
Ted Dewdney memorabilia existing today includes the gold-headed umbrella and address he received as gifts upon leaving Rossland in 1907, a framed plaque with cheque received in 1920 when the Dewdney family left New Denver, and a couple of Ted`s tennis trophies. Author photo.
Ted and Helen with the best man and bridesmaids at their wedding in 1912. Family photo.
Victoria newspaper report of Ted and Helen`s wedding
Helen had a special interest and expertise in resolving disputes. If two people among her acquaintances were feuding she would invite them both to tea and somehow their differences would be ironed out. Her mother Bertha, who lived with the Dewdneys after her husband died in 1919, looked after the cooking until she accidentally fell down stairs in the mid-1930s which left her bedridden for the rest of her life.
ABOVE: Ted with Helen and his mother-in-law Bertha Gray Peters, known in the family as "Dally". The photo was staged with a Victoria background. Actually, Ted never owned or drove a car. BELOW: Ted and Helen as a young couple. Family photos.
In the Depression years in Nelson, word spread among the unemployed men traveling through Nelson looking for work that one of the places in town where they could get a meal was at the Dewdney house. Some wood was left in the yard for the men to chop for the fireplace. Helen was often hard pressed to come up with extra food virtually every night. There was some concern about having strange men – many of whom couldn't speak English – wandering through the house, but nothing was ever stolen.
Ted and Helen. Family photo.
Ted was known as a serious but fair businessmen and a good listener. A common story in the family quoted a man saying "I'd rather be turned down for a loan by Ted Dewdney than by anyone else."
In each community Ted and Helen established a strong presence. Ted was always active in the Anglican Church, service clubs (particularly Rotary), commerce associations and sports clubs. Helen was an ardent bridge player who joined or formed bridge clubs everywhere she went. An accomplished pianist, Helen trained in her youth at the Royal Conservatory of Music in London, England. Ted and Helen were both keen on community theatre, including Gilbert and Sullivan musicals. Ted would be producer, Helen director and the whole family would perform on stage along with other amateur actors and musicians from the community.
This plaque, presented to Ted and Helen upon his transfer by the Bank of Montreal to Rossland in 1920, is on display in the Silvery Slocan Museum in New Denver, in the same building where the Dewdneys lived between 1916 and 1920. Author photo.
Advertisement in the Ledge newspaper in New Denver in 1919 on services provided by the Bank of Montreal, including branch manager Ted Dewdney.
Ted and Helen with children Eve, Peter and baby Dee Dee in about 1925 in Rossland. Family photo.
Helen in costume for a community production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, in about 1925. Helen often directed and performed in plays and musicals, while Ted helped out backstage. Family photo.
Ted and Helen generally got along well as a couple, but they were destined to disagree regarding politics. After women became eligible to vote in B.C. and federal elections in 1917-18, Ted and Helen would travel together by horse-drawn carriage to the voting station. On these trips Ted would sometimes mutter that they were wasting their time because their votes would cancel each other out.
Ted`s carbon copy of a letter he sent to his egotistical boss, Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, acknowledging his transfer to manage the branch of the Bank of Montreal in New Denver, B.C. Family collection.
Letter from Ted to GM of Bank of Montreal acknowledging his transfer to the Trail branch.
Ted at work in his Nelson office. Family photo.
Ted`s boss at the Bank of Montreal for many years was Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, who fit the stereotype of the stuffy, pompous bank executive.
They were both heavily influenced in their loyalties by their upbringing — Ted as a Conservative like his uncle Edgar Dewdney who served in senior ministries of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, and Helen as a Liberal like her father Fred. Helen often told of her memories of cheering "Up with Sir Wilfred, Down with Sir John!" as a four-year-old in the 1891 federal election campaign, as her father was a strong ally of federal Liberal leader Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
During his career Ted had to deal with some difficult bosses at the bank, most notably Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor (1863-1945), who was rated Most Egotistical in the history of Canadian businessmen in the Globe and Mail`s Hall of Shame poll in 2003. Everywhere he went Sir Frederick brought along several staff members to set up a changing tent so he could change into a new freshly-pressed pinstripe suit three or four times a day. In The Canadian Establishment, Peter Newman notes that Sir Frederick also had his toadies sweep the sidewalk ahead of him with brooms as he walked down a street. And he had a standard banter with the maître d` of his favorite restaurant, where he would arrive and say "Anyone notable or distinguished here tonight, Chris?" The scripted response: "Well, you are here, Sir Frederick."
Unlike his Uncle Edgar, Ted never had any hint of a scandal or impropriety associated with him. He was someone that others could confide in, and trust that he would work in their interest and not share any personal information given to him for whatever reason. Over the years he worked as a volunteer for dozens of community organizations as treasurer, because others knew he could manage accounts and be completely trusted.
Ted (right) in his launch at the Blaylock dock on Kootenay Lake near Nelson, B.C. in about 1946. At left are his daughter-in-law Maxine and her parents Herbert and Melissa Forbes-Roberts. Son Lieut. Peter Dewdney married Maxine in Nova Scotia in 1944 while he was serving with the Royal Canadian Navy in anti-submarine operations. Family photo.
Dewdney homes, clockwise from bottom left: Trail bank house (second floor of bank), Rossland bank house on Kootenay Avenue, Nelson bank house on Carbonate Street, and their Nelson home for retirement years on Stanley Street (circa 1940). Family and author photos.
Ted donated this window in memory of his uncle Edgar Dewdney to the St. Savior`s Anglican Church in Nelson.
Helen was remarkably even-tempered, an avid reader and keenly interested in current events. About the only subject that upset her was memories of the world wars where she lost three brothers. Like many who lost loved ones, she felt generals were reckless and uncaring about the lives of those who served under them.
Ted with grandson Sam in Nelson in late 1951. Family photo.
Daughter Eve married mining engineer Jack Fingland in 1933; they moved to California in the early 1950's and she died in Moraga in 2002.
Peter graduated in law from the University of Alberta. In 1944 he married Maxine Forbes-Roberts of St. John's, Newfoundland who he met while serving in Royal Canadian Navy anti-submarine patrols off the east coast of Canada in World War Two. Peter retired in 1982 after 36 years with the Cominco law department, and died in 2008. Like any war bride, Maxine was apprehensive ab0ut meeting her in-laws for the first time when Peter brought her back to B.C. after the war. She later said that Ted and Helen could not have been more friendly and welcoming than they were to her. "Ted Dewdney was a wonderful man," Maxine said when I asked her about him a couple of years before she died in 2010.
Dee Dee earned a bachelor's degree at UBC and librarian's certificate at University of Toronto and worked as a librarian in Calgary and Nelson. She married Nelson lawyer and veteran of the Italian campaign Major Leigh McBride in 1948, and died in 2012.
Announcement in the July 2, 1924 Rossland Miner newspaper of the birth of Ted and Helen`s third child, Rose Pamela (Dee Dee) Dewdney at the Rossland hospital.
In retirement Ted continued to be active in the community, serving as a volunteer in wide range of community organization, as noted in the obituary below.
After Ted's death in 1952 Helen began living with her daughter Dee Dee McBride's family in Nelson, helping with the house, hosting bridge parties and teaching the children piano. In 1956 Helen went to England to represent her late brother Fritz at a series of functions celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, where she was introduced to the Queen and the Churchills. While she had distaste for war and the military, she was always proud of her brother's extraordinary bravery. As a hobby in her senior years she studied Spanish and had two extended Greyhound bus trips to Mexico on her own. An expert conversationalist, she had moderate hearing loss in her old age which bothered her greatly because she wasn't able to participate fully in conversations. She moved to Trail with the McBride family in 1969 and died there at age 89 on Nov. 25, 1976.
Ted and Helen Dewdney are buried together in Nelson Memorial Cemetery along with Helen's mother Bertha Peters. As a couple, Ted and Helen were able to successfully move on from the family tragedies of their youth to be leaders and contributors to the many communities where they resided.
CHRONOLOGY OF E.E.L. "TED" DEWDNEY
December 26, 1880 – Ted was born in Victoria, B.C., third and last child of Walter Dewdney and Matilda Caroline Leigh to live to adulthood.
1882-1885 – Ted was residing with this family in Yale, B.C., where his father was Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Works, and later Justice of the Peace, government agent and church registrar.
February 6, 1885 – mother Carrie Leigh dies in Victoria at age 31.
1885-1892 – residing with his family in Vernon, B.C.
September 19, 1888 — his father Walter marries Clara Matilda Chipp in Kamloops.
August 31, 1887 – his future wife Mary Helen Peters is born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
January 25, 1892 – Suffering from extreme physical pain and depression, his father dies at age 55 at home in Vernon from self-inflicted gun wound.
1892-1897 – Ted lives mainly in Victoria at Cary Castle, where his uncle Edgar Dewdney is Lieutenant Governor, with regular visits to stepmother Clara in Vernon.
November 1, 1897 – starts employment with the Bank of Montreal in New Westminster as a teller.
April 30, 1898 — sister Rose Valentine Dewdney marries Charles Sedley Keating in Vernon.
December 17, 1900 – Suffering extreme pain from cancer, Ted's stepmother Clara, who had married William Cameron in 1894, commits suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
1900-1907 – after a short stint working with the bank at Greenwood, Ted moves to the bank's Rossland, B.C. branch, where he resides except for short periods when seconded to work at Kelowna and Vernon. Serves as a private and rises to lieutenant in the Rocky Mountain Rangers militia.
1904-1906 – Ted wins West Kootenay Tennis Men's Singles Championship three years in a row.
August 2, 1907 – a large farewell party is held for Ted at The Rossland Club.
1907-1908 – Ted transferred to work as accountant with the bank at Armstrong, B.C.
Ted`s cousin Hattie Keating (1898-1975) was the only child of Ted`s aunt Rose Dewdney and husband Charles Keating. Hattie, an accomplished painter, lived with the Dewdney family in Nelson, B.C. in the early 1940s. She later married Charlie Worsley. Winnipeg Tribune Aug. 18, 1928. Newspapers.com
1908-1911 – working for the bank and residing in Victoria, B.C. In September 1911 he gets engaged to marry Mary Helen Peters, whose father, former Prince Edward Island Premier Fred Peters, is a friend and business associate of the Hon. Edgar Dewdney
1911-1912 – working for the bank and residing in Rossland, B.C.
June 19, 1912 – marries Mary Helen Peters, daughter of Frederick Peters and Bertha Hamilton Susan Gray at Paul's Anglican Church, Esquimalt, B.C.
1912-1915 – residing in Vernon, B.C.
August 13, 1913 — brother Walter Robert Dewdney marries Kathleen Stuart Ferguson at Midway.
December 6, 1913 – birth of daughter Evelyn Mary Lawrence Dewdney
1915-1916 – residing in Greenwood, B.C. First appointment as branch manager with the Bank of Montreal. His older brother Walter Robert Dewdney was provincial government agent in Greenwood at the time
April 24, 1915 — death of his brother-in-law, Private John Francklyn Peters, in 7th Battaltion in the Second Battle of Ypres.
1916-1920 – bank manager and residing in New Denver, B.C. Farewell party held for Ted and Helen Nov. 21, 1920.
June 3, 1916 – death of his brother-in-law Lieut. Gerald Hamilton Peters of 7th Battalion in the Battle of Mount Sorrel.
August 1916 – attends funeral of his uncle Edgar Dewdney in Victoria
May 2, 1917 – birth of son Frederic Hamilton Bruce Dewdney (later changed to Frederic Hamilton Peter Dewdney, known as "Peter")
Ted Dewdney, c. 1935. Family photo.
summer 1919 – mother-in-law Bertha (Gray) Peters comes to live permanently with the Dewdney family after death of her husband Fred in July
1929-1952 – residing in Nelson, B.C.
1929-1940 – bank manager in Nelson, B.C.
October 21, 1933 – daughter Eve marries John Archibald "Jack" Fingland
June 19, 1937 — Ted and Helen invite about 40 friends and relations to their bank house known as Hochelaga for a party celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary.
1920-1927 – bank manager and residing in Rossland, B.C.
June 29, 1924 – birth of daughter Rose Pamela "Dee Dee" Dewdney
1927-1929 – bank manager and residing in Trail, B.C.
1940 – retires from Bank of Montreal after 43 years of service. Moves from Bank House "Hochelaga" to 1895-built house at 820 Stanley Street purchased from Burns family
1941 – sister Rose Valentine Keating dies at age 62
1942 – son Peter graduates in law from University of Alberta and enlists in Royal Canadian Navy; takes officer training at Royal Roads.
November 13, 1942 – death of his brother-in-law Capt. Frederic Thornton Peters, VC, DSO, DSC and bar, DSC (U.S.), RN in a flying boat crash near Plymouth England, five days after the attack on Oran Harbour for which he received the Victoria Cross and the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross.
Ted`s older brother, Walter Robert Dewdney (1877-1956)
February 2, 1944 – Col. Dusenbury of the U.S. Army in Edmonton representing General Eisenhower leads a delegation that comes to the Dewdney house in Nelson to present the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross won at Oran by Capt. F.T. Peters posthumously to his next-of-kin, mother Bertha Peters.
September 14, 1944 – son Peter Dewdney marries Maxine Forbes-Roberts of St. John's, Newfoundland while serving in the navy. They settle in Trail in 1946 where he works as a lawyer for Cominco for 36 years until retirement.
September 11, 1948 – daughter Dee Dee, who has graduated in arts from UBC and earned professional librarian certification, marries Leigh Morgan McBride of Nelson, B.C. and they settle in Nelson where he has a law practice.
1950 – daughter Eve Fingland and her family move to California where Jack builds a contract paving business.
July 29, 1952 – Ted dies from heart attack at Kootenay Lake General Hospital in Nelson at age 71.
February 26, 1956 – brother Walter Robert Dewdney dies at Penticton at age 79.
June 1956 – Helen Dewdney travels to England for ceremonies commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, representing her late brother Fritz Peters.
September 1969 – McBride family and Ted's widow Helen move from Nelson to Trail.
Ted`s sister Rose Valentine Keating. Family photo.
November 25, 1976 – widow Helen Peters Dewdney dies at Trail at age 89.
February 7, 1985 — sister-in-law Kathleen Ferguson Dewdney, past president of the Okanagan Historical Society, dies in Penticton
December 3, 2002 – daughter Eve Fingland dies in Moraga, California
November 28, 2008 – son Peter Dewdney dies in Trail, B.C.
January 14, 2012 – daughter Dee Dee McBride dies in Trail, B.C.
Descendants of PEI Fathers of Confederation Enjoy Reunion Commemorating 150th Anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference
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The reunion of descendants of Prince Edward Island`s seven Fathers of Confederation was a memorable part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the historic Charlottetown Conference of September 1864 which set the stage for the creation of Canada as a self-governing, transcontinental nation in 1867.
At the opening reception for the Descendants Reunion on Sept. 11th, project chairman Bob Pierce of the PEI Genealogical Society introduces the researchers who studied each of the PEI Fathers of Confederation and identified descendants.
Many thanks to the Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society (PEIGS), as well as the wider PEI heritage community, for bringing descendants together from many parts of Canada and the U.S. to share in a special experience honouring their renowned ancestors.
New sculpture near Province House of the two Fathers of Confederation named John Hamilton Gray was unveiled Sept. 4, 2014. See Guardian story on the artist and the unveiling of the sculpture at http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-09-04/article-3858056/Bronze-statue-unveiled-on-Great-George-Street/1
Top left: new sculpture of Father of Confederation William Henry Pope at Charlottetown`s picturesque waterfront, depicting him welcoming Charlottetown Conference delegates from a rowboat. Bottom left: three of the great-great-grandchildren of PEI Father of Confederation John Hamilton Gray (right) pose with the new sculpture on Great Georges Street that shows PEI Premier Gray interacting in 1864 with his namesake (no relation) John Hamilton Gray, who was a Father of Confederation from New Brunswick. Right: detail of the PEI Gray enjoying the late summer sun.
Top: the famous photo of the Fathers of Confederation at the Charlottetown Conference. Below: some of the descendants of PEI Fathers of Confederation John Hamilton Gray and Thomas Heath Haviland at the descendant reunion at the same location, which today serves as the official residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of PEI.
New brands of Fathers of Confederation beer launched this year as part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference.
Reunion participants (PEI Gray and Haviland) beside the tombstones of John Hamilton Gray and his daughter Rosie Gray in Sherwood Cemetery in Charlottetown.
The reunion began with a welcome reception in Charlottetown where descendants met their PEIGS hosts, as well as PEI historians, researchers, archivists and representatives of the provincial government, including the Hon. Robert Henderson, Minister of Tourism and Culture. It was also a chance to meet descendents of other PEI Fathers of Confederation. For me and other British Columbia descendants of John Hamilton Gray through his daughter Bertha Peters, it was the first time we met our third cousins in PEI descended from Bertha's sister Margaret Lord.
Reunion participants learn about the PEI Fathers of Confederation at a Sept. 12th presentation at the Carriage House by U of PEI history professor Ed MacDonald.
The three-day schedule of the reunion also included tours of locations, buildings, sculptures and cemeteries associated with our ancestor, a presentation on the PEI Fathers of Confederation by University of PEI history professor Edward MacDonald, and a fun evening at the Red Shores Race Track where the Fathers of Confederation Descendants Race was run, and reunion participants presented a cooler to the winning horse and driver in the winners circle. We also enjoyed a tour of the PEI Brewing Co. to see how their beers honouring the Fathers of Confederation were made, and taste the results. In the months leading up to the reunion, the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper presented a series of feature stories by writer Louise Campbell on each PEI Father of Confederation and their descendants.
Reunion participants enjoyed exciting races at the Red Shores Racetrack on Sept. 13th, which included a Fathers of Confederation Descendants race and presentation to winning horse and rider.
The largest contingent in the gathering were descendants of William Henry Pope, who was Colonial Secretary of PEI at the time and is probably best-remembered in Canadian history for the painting of him in a rowboat greeting John A. Macdonald and other delegates from Upper and Lower Canada as they arrived in Charlottetown harbour to meet with Maritime colony delegates for the first time. Descendants of Col. John Hamilton Gray – who had large role in the conference as chairman of the conference and host of a major social event — made up the second-largest delegation of descendants. Pope and Gray were enthusiastic supporters of Confederation early on, while most of the other PEI delegates were against joining the Canadian union. PEI eventually joined Confederation in 1873 – six years after the founding of Canada in 1867 – when the island faced a financial crisis involving railway debt, and the deal to join Canada resolved that problem, along with land issues.
Commemorative book published for reunion participants, including stories and descendant trees of each of the seven PEI Fathers of Confederation.
My mother Dee Dee Dewdney McBride and grandmother Helen Peters Dewdney often talked of their ancestor Col. John Hamilton Gray who was premier of PEI at the time of the Charlottetown Conference and rated as a Father of Confederation. In the family, Gray was viewed as one of three ancestors who were PEI premiers. His son-in-law Frederick Peters (father of Helen) was premier in the 1890s, and his brother Arthur Peters was premier in the early 1900s. Helen never knew her famous grandfather John Hamilton Gray, as he died 18 days before she was born in Charlottetown in August 1887, but she often heard stories of him told by her mother Bertha, who lived with the Dewdney family as a widow when her grandchildren were growing up in B.C. Bertha brought with her a dining room table from Inkerman House that her father bequeathed to her in his will, and continues to be a treasured heirloom of her descendants. She regularly commented to visitors that "the Fathers of Confederation sat around that table". Bertha was at Inkerman House on Sept. 3, 1864 when her father hosted the Charlottetown Conference delegates for an after-dinner party, but had no memory of it as she was just two years old. Years later her father and older sisters told her of the memorable night when the family home was filled with distinguished-looking men, most of them in various stages of inebriation. The group came to Inkerman House directly from a jovial dinner party on HMS Queen Victoria in Charlottetown harbour where an ample supply of drinks were served, and a spirit of friendship and unity developed.
Souvenir card for John Hamilton Gray in the Parks Canada "Who`s Your Father?" quiz. http://www.whosyourfather.ca.
As he also attended the Quebec Conference of October 1864, Col. Gray qualifies as a Father of Confederation. (As a historical standard, individuals rate as Fathers of Confederation if they attended at least two of three conferences: the Charlottetown Conference of 1864, the Quebec Conference of 1864 and the London Conference of 1866. They are included as Fathers of Confederation even if they were adamantly against the union of the British colonies at the time).
Program for a theatrical production at the Guild theatre in Charlottetown spoofing the famous characters. events and imbibing of 1864.
Identifying and locating the descendants was a big challenge for the PEIGS, as they normally research backwards in time to identify the names and stories of ancestors. It is more difficult to identify the descendants of today, because the census and vital statistics data genealogists usually rely on are not available because of government regulations protecting the privacy of living persons. Fortunately, the electronic media of today was a big help in determining and contacting descendants.
Checking out the large framed print of Premier Gray at the Colonel Gray Senior High School in Charlottetown, which is one of many venues in the area named after him. He was only premier of PEI for a year and a half, but it turned out to be a crucial time in the history of PEI and Canada.
The descendants reunion was one of 150 events held in PEI in 2014 commemorating the 150th anniversary, including leadership conferences, heritage conservation conferences, historic costume-making classes, garden exhibitions, theatrical presentations, and music events highlighted by a Shania Twain concert. See http://pei2014.ca/home.php?page=month_activities&subtype=%&region=%&pagegroup=5
One of the sesquicentennial projects in Charlottetown in 2014 unveiled new gardens in the city`s parks named after each of the PEI Fathers of Confederation.
There was something about John Hamilton Gray that led people to name things or children in his honour. Charlottetown has a park, high school and numerous commemorative plaques named after him. In the years before the Confederation Bridge was built, one of the car ferries was named MV John Hamilton Gray, which conveniently referred to both the PEI and New Brunswick Fathers of Confederation with the same name. Likewise, the new sculpture on Georges Street commemorates both John Hamilton Grays. Dozens of the PEI Gray`s descendants have the word Hamilton in their full name. It was originally a tribute by Gray`s father Robert Gray`s business colleagues, but for generations after Premier Gray it became a tribute to him, beginning with his children Mary Stukeley Hamilton Gray, Bertha Hamilton Susan Gray, Arthur Cavendish Bentinck Hamilton Gray and Hamilton Edward Jarvis Gray. One of the Gray descendants participating in the reunion in Charlottetown was my B.C. cousin Richard Hamilton Dewdney, whose father Frederic Hamilton Peter Dewdney also hearkened back to the Father of Confederation who was greatly admired by his family, partly for his role in the formation of Canada and partly for his distinguished career as a cavalry officer in the British Army.
At a gathering Sept. 14 of Gray descendants in Charlottetown, visitors from B.C. checked out two valuable Gray family heirlooms with white gloves to avoid damaging them: a sword used by Col. Robert Gray in the Revolutionary War (with lettering "The Kings American Regt") and a fowler rifle used by Gray`s son John Hamilton Gray engraved with his name. From left are host Sandi Lord Hurry, her sister Joanne Lord MacLeod, Sandi`s son Ernest "Tyler" Hurry and their third cousins from B.C. Sam McBride and Richard Hamilton Dewdney.
Scabbard of the Robert Gray sword from the American Revolution has the writing The Kings American Reg.
In my family history files I found an invitation my mother received in 1989 for the 125th anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference. Unfortunately, she never made it to the event.
Descendants of P.E.I. Fathers of Confederation will gather in September in P.E.I. in commemoration of 150th anniversary of the historic Charlottetown Conference
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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864, a gathering of delegates of British colonies north of the U.S. border which got the ball rolling towards the birth of Canada as a self-governing country in 1867.
Throughout his life, Fritz Peters was proud of the central role his grandfather, Col. John Hamilton Gray, had as a Father of Confederation. Gray died two years before Fritz was born so he never met him, but Fritz often heard of his famous grandfather from his mother Bertha Gray Peters and her sisters Margaret Gray Lord and Florence Gray Poole. Bertha was a toddler at the time of the founding conference, but Margaret and Florence were teen-agers who served as hostesses when their father brought John A. Macdonald and the other Fathers of Confederation home to the family estate known as Inkerman House for an after-dinner party on Saturday, Sept. 3, 1864. As their mother Susan Bartley Pennefather Gray was seriously ill at the time, the elder sisters took her place as hostesses. At the suggestion of fellow Maritime delegate Sir Charles Tupper, Col. Gray`s daughter Margaret accompanied Gray to the Quebec Conference in October 1864.
Col. Gray was an enthusiastic supporter of Canadian Confederation from the beginning. He resigned from politics in 1865 when his fellow P.E.I. leaders turned against it. No one was happier than Gray when P.E.I. entered Confederation as a Canadian province in 1873.
As part of the commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Charlottetown Conference, the stories of the seven P.E.I. Fathers of Confederation and their descendants are being told through a series of features in the Charlottetown Guardian newspaper.
The first feature looked at Col. Gray and his descendants, including his grandson Capt. Frederic Thornton "Fritz" Peters, and comments by two of Gray`s descendants of today, Sandra Hurry and Sam McBride. http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/150th-Charlottetown/2014-02-27/article-3628939/Taking-pride-in-their-past-in-P.E.I./1
J.H. Gray
The second feature focused on Edward Whelan http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/150th-Charlottetown/2014-03-27/article-3666789/P.E.I.-Father-of-Confederation-leaves-lasting-legacy/1
Writer Louise Campbell explained the series on P.E.I. Fathers of Confederation and their descendants at http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/Living/2014-02-08/article-3607713/Project-delves-into-descendants-of-P.E.I.s-Fathers-of-Confederation/1
The seven P.E.I. Fathers of Confederation are described on the P.E.I. Genealogical Society`s web site at http://peigs2014.ca/category/fathers-of-confederation
The PEIGS web site http://www.peigs2014.ca has a tentative schedule for a reunion of descendants of the P.E.I. Fathers of Confederation over the Sept. 11-14, 2014 weekend.
Tentative Schedule of Events for Fathers of Confederation Descendants Gathering
Sept 11, 2014 Welcome Descendants
Meet and Greet reception, for descendants of all 7 PEI Fathers of Confederation, time and location to be determined. This kick-off event will be your chance to meet the descendants of the Prince Edward Island Fathers of Confederation – maybe even some of your own relatives! View the family trees, meet the Genealogists, get your welcome kit. And get ready for a great weekend!
Bus Tours A customized tour will be created for each Father's family. Get to know your famous ancestor by following in his footsteps. Where did the Father and his family live? Where did he work? What church, if any, did he go to? What Island buildings are part of his legacy? Where is he buried? Offered on a cost-recovery basis, based on demand, these tours will be three to four hours in duration.
Family Circles: These engaging events will provide you with an opportunity to share stories, showcase memorabilia, and delve into your family history with the Genealogist who has done the research for this project. Each Family Circle will focus specifically on one of the families; however, if space is available, participants are more than welcome to attend Family Circles beyond your own.
Sep 12, 2014 Bus Tours
9:00 AM Free Time
1:00 PM Free Time
4:30 PM Bus Tour A. A. MacDonald Descendants
Sep 12, 2014 Family Circles
10:00 AM Family Circle, John Hamilton Gray Descendants
2:00 PM Family Circle, A. A. MacDonald Descendants
7:00 PM Family Circle as necessary
09:00 AM Bus Tour John Hamilton Gray Descendants
01:00 PM Bus Tour James Palmer/Edward Whelan Descendants
04:30 PM Bus Tour Thomas Heath Haviland Descendants
10:00 AM Family Circle, James Palmer/Edward Whelan Descendants
02:00 PM Family Circle, William Henry Pope Descendants
07:00 PM Family Circle as necessary
10:00 AM Bus Tour, George Coles Descendants
01:00 PM Bus Tour William Henry Pope Descendants
04:30 PM Bus Tour Other Descendants as necessary
10:00 AM Family Circle, Thomas Heath Haviland Descendants
02:00 PM Family Circle, George Coles Descendants
For more information on this gathering of descendants, contact The Prince Edward Island Genealogical Society Inc., P.O. Box 2744, Charlottetown, PEI C1A 8C4, or email 2014@peigs.ca.
"Tracing Your Family Tree" Genealogy Workshop in Castlegar May 3, 2014
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"Tracing Your Family Tree"
Genealogy Workshop
Saturday, May 3, 2014 in Castlegar
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the West Kootenay Family Historians Society, the society and Selkirk College are sponsoring a genealogy workshop on Saturday, May 3, 2014 designed to meet the needs and interests of family tree beginners as well as experienced researchers.
The "Tracing Your Family Tree" workshop will go from 10 am to 4 pm at Selkirk College. The workshop fee of $30 plus GST includes lunch. Register through Selkirk College Registration 250 365-1208 or email castlegarce@selkirk.ca
Did you glean all there was from the Census record? – Donna Fraser 10am-11:25am, Sentinel Room 220
Census records are one of the most useful sources for family history research. They show the family living together on a given date with names, relationships, age, occupation and place of birth. Those are the main topics that researchers are interested in but there is often much more if we dig a little deeper. In this talk Donna will show the additional information that you can learn about your family.
Local history as viewed through historic West Kootenay postcards – Greg Nesteroff noon–12:45 pm, Room 220
Greg will present a show of historic Slocan Valley postcards from his collection.
Effective use of the universal genealogy web site https://familysearch.org — Richard Wolff OPTION A 1pm–2:20pm, Room 222
The old way of doing things at Family History Centres involved Personal Ancestry File (PAF), an early genealogical program going back to the 1980s; the International Genealogical Index (IGI) with 187 million names (including 58 million from England and Wales), Ancestral File, integrated Latter Day Saints (LDS) member-submitted genealogies; and Pedigree Research File (PRF) of stand alone submitted genealogies. These have been succeeded by https://familysearch.org , encompassing:
Search – billions of names across hundreds of collections;
WIKI – Get research advice or learn where to find record collections;
Forums – Ask and answer questions;
Catalogue – Search the catalogue of books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications;
Learning Centre – Hundreds of online genealogy courses;
Family Tree – The family of man starting with you; and
Indexing – Volunteers create digital indexes for scanned images of historical documents.
Aboriginal issues in genealogy
— Jackie Cole OPTION B 1pm-2:20pm, Gathering Place
Jackie will share the "Four R`s of Indigenous Story Work" as laid out by Joanne Archibald of UBC. She will use her family and the topic of genealogy to explore how we learn value for our current lives by exploring our personal stories from our ancestors. The 7-generation perspective will be part of this.
Planning a successful family history research trip
– Donna Fraser 2:30pm–4pm, Room 220
This talk is based on Donna's experience in the last dozen years with travel across Canada, trips to Salt Lake City and annual trips to Britain to do family history research. She'll demonstrate the preparation you should do before you leave home, explain the types of record repositories that you'll use, and give tips for planning your visit, mapping a strategy and how to spend your time wisely once at your destination. This presentation will help you plan a research trip to the nearest LDS Family History Centre, a library or archives, or a trip to your ancestral country of origin.
Plus exhibits, displays, prize draws and demonstrations
For more information, contact Sam at 250 365-9860 or Inge at 250 367-0076, email to wkfhs@shaw.ca, Twitter @wkfhs, or www.wkfamilyhistorians.wordpress.com
clockwise, from top left: Donna Fraser, Richard Wolff, Jackie Cole and Greg Nesteroff
Donna Fraser is Director of Education for one of the largest family history societies on Vancouver Island.
Donna has been doing family history research for over 25 years and is passionate about the subject. She has given presentations to various family history societies within British Columbia and Britain and looks forward to her return visit to Selkirk College.
Richard Wolff is a lifelong genealogist and Director of the Family History Centre in Trail.
Richard and his wife Nina were among the founding members of the West Kootenay Family Historians Society, and continue as active members of the society today.
Greg Nesteroff , writer and historian, is renowned in the West Kootenay and beyond as a skilled reporter who keeps on top of the issues of the day, and as an enthusiastic and rigorous researcher uncovering remarkable stories of the region`s past.
Jackie Cole is a Metis woman whose family have been moving slowly west across Turtle Island for the last 500 years. She has lived in the West Kootenays for most of her life and finds inspiration and peace in the territory of the SINIXT people. As a Music Therapist and Aboriginal Educator she is constantly interweaving story, culture and history into her interactions both professionally and personally.
She is a descendant of fur-traders, slaves, farmers, European aristocrats, slave owners, and peasants spanning 12 cultures. Jackie lives in the Slocan Valley with a partner who is of Doukhobor heritage, and says her two sons are the only people she knows who have more cultural diversity than her.
The West Kootenay Family Historians Society gratefully acknowledges the financial support of this workshop by Teck Trail Operations and the Kootenay Savings Credit Union.
30th anniversary reunion in 1975 of Canadian soldiers in Italy in Second World War
Peters-Dewdney wedding in Victoria in 1912 linked two families prominent in Canadian politics
Builder and city clerk William Leigh helped guide the City of Victoria, B.C. through its challenging pioneer years
75th anniversary of Nelson, B.C.`s "Black Day of World War 2" on May 23, 1944
Amazing 35-minute drive from Trail, BC to Nelson in 1945 to receive phone call from son freed from German POW camp
1956 VC centennial
30th anniversary of Canadians in Italy
Alf Jeffs
B.C.; Foote; Jim Foote; Morristown; Perth
Battle of Dogger Bank
Bluecher
Bolger
Borden Cameron
Crowfoot
Dewdney
Dewdney Trail
Dewdney Trail Heritage Society
Distinguished Service Order
Dogger Bank
E.E.L. Dewdney
Edgar Dewdney
Eva Hume
Fingland
Florence Gray Poole
Frederic Thornton Peters
Frederick Peters
George Ludlow Wetmore
Hanbury
Helen Peters Dewdney
HMS Meteor
Italian Campaign
James Horsfield Peters
Jane Shaw Moir
Kenneth Gilbert McBride
Kenneth Gilbert McBride; Seaforth Highlanders; Nelson, UBC, Coriano Ridge
Kootenay Lake
L.V. Rogers
Leigh Morgan McBride
Lieut. Gerald Hamilton Peters
London Ontario
Ma Murray Awards
Marion Leitch McPhail
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Mount Sorrel
Nelson BC
Neville Shanks Award
Operation Reservist
Operation Torch
R. Leigh McBride
R.L. McBride
Ross Bay Cemetery
Rossland
Rossland Museum
Roy Sharp
Sam McBride
Samuel McBride
Seaforth Highlanders
Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
Seaforths
Sherwood Cemetery
Susan Allison
The Bravest Canadian
Thomas Horsfield Peters
Valour Road
West Kootenay
West Kootenay Family Historians Society
Wild Horse Creek
William Leigh
Wilmott Steed
Wood Vallance
Wood Vallance Hardware Company


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Ilya Sergeyevich Karpuk (; born 7 August 1997) is a Russian football player. He plays for FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo.

Club career
He made his debut in the Russian Football National League for FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk on 27 February 2021 in a game against FC Volgar Astrakhan.

References

External links

 Profile by Russian Football National League

1997 births
Sportspeople from Krasnoyarsk
Living people
Russian footballers
Association football forwards
FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players
Russian First League players
FC Zvezda Perm players
FC Volga Ulyanovsk players
FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo players
20th-century Russian people
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Честотна лента е условно наименование на интервала от минималната до максималната честота, в който дадено устройство приема/предава звукови или радиовълни. Това е едно от най-важните понятия в радиотехниката и във физико-техническите дисциплини. То има общ характер, т.е. може да се говори или за диапазон работни честоти на някое конкретно устройство, или за диапазон, предназначен за използване с определена цел (например за мобилна телефония) или за обобщено разпределение на целия спектър. Например за УКВ радиоразпръскване се използва честотна лента от 87,5 MHz до 108 MHz, за КВ радио – 2300 kHz до 26 000 kHz.

Примери за обособени честотни ленти
 Средни вълни (радиоразпръскване на вълни с амплитудна модулация) (530 – 1610 kHz).
 Различни къси вълни (5,9 – 26,1 MHz).
 Граждански диапазон (26,965 – 27,405 MHz).
 Телевизионно разпръскване (48,5 – 862 MHz).
 Ултракъси вълни c честотна модулация (УКВ) (87,5 – 108 MHz, освен това 76 – 90 MHz в Япония; в Русия също 65,9 – 74 MHz).
 ISM диапазон.
 Диапазони на военните честоти.
 Диапазони на честотите на гражданската авиация.
 Морски и речен диапазон (330 – 336 MHz).

Разпределение на спектъра в България
В България разпределението на радиочестотния спектър се осъществява от Комисията за регулиране на съобщенията (КРС). Тя изготвя "Национален план за разпределение на радиочестотния спектър на радиочестоти и радиочестотни ленти за граждански нужди, за нуждите на отбраната и сигурността, както и за съвместно ползване между тях". С този план се определя как да се използват честотите между 9 kHz и 275 GHz.

За радиоразпръскване в България са определени следните обхвати:

За наземно радиоразпръскване на телевизионни сигнали с честотна модулация УКВ-ЧМ са отделени честотни ленти 49 – 100 MHz (Метров обхват-1), 174 – 230 MHz (Метров обхват-2) и 470 – 862 MHz (Дециметров обхват). В България и в други страни от Източна Европа за ефирно телевизионно разпръскване е приет стандарт, според който спектърът е разпределен на 12 телевизионни канала в метровия обхват, с офсет на честотите за изображение и звука от 6,5 MHz и канали от 21 до 69 в дециметровия обхват с офсет от 5,5 MHz.

Диапазони в акустиката
 Инфразвуков – под 20 Hz.
 Звуков – от 20 Hz до 20 kHz (в него напълно се вмества целият диапазон честоти, които човек може да чуе).
 Ултразвуков – от 20 kHz до 1 GHz.
 Хиперзвуков – над 1 GHz.

Източници

Външни препратки
 ДВ, СВ и УКВ радиочестоти в България
 Честоти на телевизионните канали в България

Телекомуникационно инженерство
Електроника
Радиочестоти


Crown has acquired two middle grade novels by bestselling YA author Nic Stone (2017's Dear Martin; and Odd One Out, due October 9). First up is Clean Getaway, scheduled for release in spring 2020, which follows an 11-year-old black boy and his white grandmother on an impromptu road trip. The forthcoming novels will be edited by Stone's current editor, Phoebe Yeh, v-p and publisher of Crown Books for Young Readers. The deal for North American rights was brokered by Yeh and Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Agency.
In Clean Getaway, a contemporary novel set against the backdrop of the history of segregation in the American South, Stone explores issues of self-discovery, humanity, and heroism. In trouble at school and home, William "Scoob" Lamar eagerly accepts his beloved G'ma's invitation to go on a "rapid-dash adventure" in her new RV, but he soon realizes that their road trip is anything but normal—and that G'ma may not be the perfect person he thought she was.


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Mom Jogging With Baby Fights Off Attacker With Bike Pump
The mom and baby were on the Hudson River Greenway near 190th Street
By Brynn Gingras
Published Sep 28, 2013 at 3:08 AM | Updated at 5:04 AM PDT on Sep 28, 2013
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Woman-Jogging-Park-Fights-Attacker-Bike-Pump-225531602.html
A woman jogging in a Manhattan park with her baby Friday fought off an attacker by bashing him in the head with a bike pump. Brynn Gingras reports. (Published Friday, Sept. 27, 2013)
A woman jogging in a Manhattan park with her baby Friday fought off an attacker by bashing him in the head with a bike pump.
Mary Jane Jarman, 33, told NBC 4 New York she was pushing her 8-month-old son in a stroller along the Hudson River Greenway near 190th Street at about 9:30 a.m. when a man jumped out from behind a barrier and flashed a broken bottle, saying "come here, come here."
She tried to run from him but he grabbed her in a bear hug and knocked her down as she screamed.
Jarman said the man, dressed in a long-sleeve blue thermal shirt and jeans, apologized and told her "I'm sick, I'm sick" as he attacked.
She said she started hitting him in the head with a bike pump that she had with her.
"I just thought, 'Get his head, get his head,'" she said.
Eventually he let go of her and fled.
Jarman says her iPhone was on top of her stroller and he didn't attempt to take it.
"His sole purpose was to hurt me," she said. "It was frightening."
Jarman is concerned that the suspect is still on the loose, and doesn't plan to run on that path any longer.

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On This Day, December 3, 1965, President Diosdado Macapagal laid the foundation stone of the Asian Development Bank Headquarters (ADB) on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City. The said building which was inaugurated in 1972 is the current Home Office of the DFA, after the ADB moved to its new headquarters in Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong City.
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Is it just me? Or are others getting nervous with the quickly decreasing daylight hours? As a person who loves (and needs) time outside, I begin to twitch when the temperature drops and the days shorten. That's when I know for certain: It's time to adjust my routine to ensure I get enough light and fresh air. For as Hans Christian Anderson wrote, just living is not enough. We need time in nature.
As people dwelling in the northern part of the northern hemisphere, many of us have heard of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). It's more prevalent in northern communities (like Calgary and Edmonton) because our daylight hours become so reduced.
And while not everyone experiences this as a labeled disorder, it's common to have lesser symptoms and to simply mourn the loss of summer.
Walk to work/school. It isn't possible for everyone, but even if you have a long drive, consider parking a block or two from work to extend your outdoor minutes.
Get outside at lunch. Pull on your coat and spend 15-20 minutes in the fresh air. If there's sunshine, spend a moment with your face in the sun, close your eyes, and smile.
Try a new sport. Cross country skiing. Snowshoeing. If you can walk, you can do these 2 sports.
Check out CBC's 19 Ideas For Outdoor Winter Play to keep your family healthy.
When we feel down, we often want to sleep or become hermits. Try the opposite. Place yourself in nature's embrace. She will help you feel happier. And if that's not enough, of course, be sure to contact your doctor for help.


The sequel to Netflix's wildly successful film To All the Boys I've Loved Before is officially in the works as of yesterday. When we last left the characters, Lara Jean Covey played by Lana Condor and Pete Kavinsky (Noah Centineo), the two announced TATB2 in a mini clip which was rolled out in December.
Centineo recently took to Twitter and tweeted, "TATB2 here we come," and tagged LAX as his location. Condor retweeted and added, "i can't wait to see ya." Netflix's Instagram account shared this exchange between the two characters and confirmed that the sequel is in fact happening.
Back in November, before the teaser for the sequel was released, Deadline reported that the major characters were in favor of a follow-up movie.
There is currently no word yet on when To All the Boys I've Loved Before 2 will release. Stay tuned here as details emerge.


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Q: What is the best way of implementing Log like structure in AppEngine I would like to implement datetime ordered entity in appengine, pretty much like Appengine's own logs. So I probably will need some kind of unique ordered id generation algorithm.
Has anyone got any suggestion on this?

A: Having a similar need I passed a long integer time stamp as identifier to the Entity constructor.  The identifier can be only a string or a long integer according to Java Datastore Entities, Properties, and Keys.  In order to see the actual dates and times in the Datastore Viewer I put the same value converted to a java.util.Date into an unindexed property as well.  Admittedly some denormalized redundancy but convenient in practice.

A: Use the date that you are appending. One way is to convert it to unix time (ms since 1970) so its numeric.
A better way but more code is to not use the datastore and use bigquery instead. Probably cheaper.

A: We need more informations about what you want to do.
If you want to make some logs, you can use timestamp indeed.
With python and ndb it's easy :
class Log(ndb.Model):
    date = ndb.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
    message = ndb.StringProperty()

Then you order your logs by the date field.
If you want to make like AppEngine, you can link your log with a parent key and order by date and parent key.
AppEngine Python ndb
I hope it helped you.

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