MARY'S GENEALOGY TREASURES
My father, David Roger Smith, was born in Dunfermlin,
He served overseas in World War 1, ending up in Edmonton
During their stay in Coalhurst my family became acquainted
My sister, Nancy, married and spent a couple of years in Ottawa
My brother Dave, served overseas with the R.C.C.S. during the
Fifeshire, Scotland in 1885, and migrated to Canada at
an early age. I believe he worked on the construction
of the tunnels on the C.P.R. line in B. C.
with the rank of Sgt. Major, where he was demobilized.
He married Grace Bosworth, who was born in London,
England in 1885, sometime during the war. Their first
child, Nancy, was born in Edmonton in 1917. They
moved to Coalhurst sometime after that as my brother
Dave, was bom there in 1923. 1 believe my father worked
with the boilers in the coal mines. I recall being told that
Nancy had scarlet fever and that she, my mother and
brother were quarantined in the house and my father had
to stay elsewhere and drop off food at the front door as
it was needed.
with the Nicol family and that friendship has developed and
remained firm throughout the years. Nancy and Dave
used to spend their summer holidays either with the Nicol's
in Kipp, or with Mary and Russ Clifton in Coalhurst (after
the family moved to Calgary) and some of the Nicol children
would come up to Calgary for a holiday. I am not sure when
they moved to Calgary, but I was born in Calgary in 1927.
My father worked for the Dominion Government in the
Post Office building until his retirement in 1950. My mother
passed away in the spring of 1953 and my father passed
away in the fall of 1956.
during the wartime years while her husband served overseas.
When he returned, they moved to Victoria, B.C. They had one
daughter. Nancy contracted polio during the epidemic in 1953,
and passed away in the fall of that year.
Second World War. He married while overseas and they returned
to Canada at the end of the war, and Dave became a Sanitary
Inspector. He worked in Calgary and Saskatoon for a couple
of years and then moved to Victoria, B.C. They had one son
and one daughter. Dave passed away suddenly in 1967.
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