Flora Thompson grew up in Esquimalt and has lived in Vancouver all of her adult life. Her mother Joan (Ridgeway) Thompson is an accomplished artist.
Harriet (McCurdy) Towell was the daughter of Arthur Williams McCurdy and Hattie Mace McCurdy. Through her mother she was related by marriage to Alexander Graham Bell. She attended the University of California at Berkeley and the University of British Co
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Ione Umphrey (nee Jacklin) is descended from an Esquimalt pioneer family. She is the daughter of Benjamin Jacklin and sister to Velma Petch.
Jack Van Dalen was born in 1925 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, where he apprenticed with the city parks department. In 1951 he immigrated to Canada, and in 1958 he moved to Esquimalt. He became an employee of the Municipality of Esquimalt in 1962, eventually being named Parks Manager in 1974. Van Dalen completed the four-year correspondence course in horticulture through the University of Guelph. He retired on August 31, 1985.
Mary Wakelin's parents owned this house at 870 Esquimalt Rd. near Head St. The house was later owned by the Comerford family in the 1930's aand 1940's and taken down to make way for commercial development in 1965.