Biography Files

Biography Files, by Surname
Biography files contain information on families and individuals of historical significance to Richmond. The biography files are regularly updated on an ad hoc basis. 
 
Come to the City of Richmond Archives to view the over 800 biography files. Files may include newspaper clippings, copies of letters and photographs, and a variety of biographical and genealogical notes.

Following is an alphabetical listing of the Biography Files at the City of Richmond Archives. Online access to the contents of the files is not available at this time.

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A

• Abercrombie (family)
• Aberdeen, Fred A.
• Aberdeen, James F.
• Abernethy, John William
• Ablitt (family)
• Abram, Gwen
• Acheson, Fred
• Aderneck, Edward
• Aiken, Lionel G.
• Airey, Francis Joseph
• Akune, Naonozo
• Allison, Lyle
• Anderson, Andy
• Anderson (family)
• Anderson, Joan
• Armstrong, Harry
• Armstrong, Mel (Capt.)
• Asari, Sadajiro
• Ascott, Laura
• Atchison (family)
• Aveson, Alfred

B

• Babuin, Frank
• Bailey, Elizabeth Ann
• Bailey, Mrs. Basil
• Baillie, A.
• Bakalaryk, Alexander
• Baker, Jean
• Baker, Russ
• Baldwin, Esther
• Ball, Alfred
• Ball, Ernie
• Barker, William Henry
• Bassett (family)
• Bath, John
• Bauer, Joe
• Baumeister (family)
• Baxter, William Henry
• Baydala (family)
• Baziuk (family)
• Beaver, Isabella H.
• Beckman, Amos
• Bell-Irving (family)
• Bell, Jack
• Bell, John
• Bennett, James
• Berry, Edith
• Bevan, Clark
• Bevan, Phillip
• Bichard, Stan
• Bicknell, Percy
• Bilesky (family)
• Bissett (family)
• Bjornsson (family)
• Blackmum, Joseph
• Blair (family)
• Blind, Frank
• Borrill (family)
• Boston, George P.
• Bothwell (family)
• Bouchard (family)
• Boutet (family)
• Bovey, Alex
• Bowcock, Robert
• Boyd, Hugh
• Boyd, John
• Boyd, Mary Ann (nee McColl)
• Boyd, Robert
• Branscombe (family)
• Braverman, Doreen
• Breeden, John Eric
• Breen, Edith Jean
• Brewill, Clarice
• Bridge (family)
• Brighouse, Michael Wilkinson
• Brighouse, Sam
• Brock, William John
• Brooke, Thomas Charles
• Brooks, Jack
• Brown, Cora
• Brown, David
• Brown (family)
• Bublick, Renata
• Buchanan, John Murdoch
• Buckingham (family)
• Buckle (family)
• Bullock, Alice Mercy
• Bunn, Art
• Burdett (family)
• Burnett (family)
• Burnett, Lieutenant-Colonel John N.
• Burnett, Lily Emily Eliza
• Burton, William Clarence
• Buswell, William
• Butler (family)
• Byng, Lord Julian Hedworth George

C

• Cambie, Henry J.
• Cantor, Benjamin B.
• Canuce, Mary
• Capella, Ted
• Carr, Rev. Douglas
• Carr (family)
• Carroll, Gurnald Henry
• Carruthers, W.R. (Bill)
• Carter, Ralph B.
• Champoux (family)
• Chan, Irene
• Chappell, Wright
• Chasteney, George Gunton
• Chatterton, Richard
• Cherry (family)
• Cheverton, Greta
• Chisholm, Thomas
• Chow, Raymond
• Chung, Chuck
• Churchill, Mary Elenor (Dreaney)
• Ciminelli, Joseph
• Clark, William "Windy"
• Clemens, Isabelle Edna
• Clement (family)
• Clements, Robert James
• Cliff, Linda
• Cline (family)
• Collison, John
• Colnett, Bill
• Comstock (family)
• Cook (family)
• Cook, William Stanley
• Cooney, Ernest
• Cooper, Everett Ellwyn
• Costello, Michael
• Cotterell, Berta
• Cowan, John
• Craig, Douglas
• Creelman, Lyle
• Cruickshank (family)
• Cruickshank, Ivan
• Cunningham, Ella
• Cunningham, Henry Cliff
• Currie, General Sir Arthur William

D

• Dafoe, Schuyler
• Daniels, Alfred H. Lockwood
• Davidson, Locksley
• Davis, David
• Dayton, James
• Deagle, William
• Deans, Rev. William ("Scottie")
• Dear (family)
• Deas, John Sullivan
• Debeck, Edwin K.
• DeBeck, Howard L.
• DeBoer, Henry
• Deckelbaum, Joan
• Demarest (family)
• DeMille, Robin
• Dennett, Marjorie
• Dennison (family)
• Diamond, Charlotte
• Dick (family)
• Dickinson, Bill
• Dickson, Ron
• Dinsmore, John
• Dixon (family)
• Dixson, Jim
• Dixon, Robert S.
• Doherty, R.R.W.
• Dolphin, Gordon
• Donald, John
• Dowie, Frank
• Doyle, Henry
• Draney, Charles
• Dreany (family)
• Drennan, Rod
• Drysdale, John Andrew
• Dudley, F.H.
• Dutfield, William E.
• Dyer, Fred
• Dypchey, Peter

E

• Easterbrook, William Thomas
• Eastman, Norm
• Eburne (family)
• Edgington, E.E.
• Egerton, William Nixon
• Elden, Tom
• Elliott, Isabel
• Ellis, Frank H.
• Ellison, James Ernest (Jimmy)
• Elston, Dorothy
• Elston, Ken
• Elton, Major H. deC.
• Engbaum, Frank
• Engbaum, Walter
• English, Marshall M.
• Eperson, Harry
• Epp, Peter
• Eppich, Helmut
• Errington (family)
• Erskine, James (Capt.)
• Estabrooks, Helen Ruth
• Ettinger, Alfred James
• Ettinger, Barbara
• Evans, Edward Francis
• Every, John
• Ewen, Alexander
• Ewin, Robert
• Eyton, Alex

F

• Fanning, Harry
• Faulker (family)
• Faulkner, P.S.
• Featherstone, Florence Margaret
• Fedoruk, William
• Fentiman (family)
• Fentiman, Ronald W.
• Ferguson, John
• Ferris, William Douglas
• Fielding, Ella
• Finlayson, Graham Alexander
• Finlayson, Lester Marshall
• Finniss, FL. SGT. C.H.
• Finsson, Gustave A.
• Fish (family)
• Fitch, Christine
• Fitchett, J.N.
• Flury, Violet
• Foley, Air Canada Captain Stu
• Fong, Mah
• Forbes, Agnes Mary
• Forbes, Doug
• Forsyth, John Reginald
• Foster, Mrs. F.
• Foster, John
• Foster, Russell
• Frame, Lorne
• Francis, Ann Jean
• Francis, Robert
• Fraser, Angus
• Fraser, Jack
• Fraser, Ken
• Freeland, Robert A.
• Friedman, Ed
• Fukawa (family)
• Funk, Harry
• Fyfe, Allen

G

• Gage, Donald
• Gagno, Rosina
• Gagnon, Lionel Edmond
• Gamba, Louis
• Garratt, B.W.
• Garripie, George
• Gartland, Brother Guy
• Gates, Herb
• Gates, John
• Gay (family)
• Gibbons, James
• Gilbert (family)
• Gilbert, Sarah J.
• Gillespie, Charles
• Gilley, Captain H.L.
• Gillingham, Clare
• Gilmore, Andrew Carson
• Gilmore, Annie Isabella
• Gilmore, Boyd
• Gilmore (family)
• Gilmore, Gertrude Elsie
• Gilmore, Les
• Gilmore, S.H.
• Gilmore, William J.
• Ginter, Jules
• Gobeil, Gerald
• Godmaire, Joseph Rosario
• Goldney, Joseph
• Good, Gertrude
• Goode, Tom
• Gordon (family)
• Gorgon, James
• Gormley, John B.
• Gosse, Robert C.
• Graham, Jessie V.
• Grandy, Arthur
• Grauer (family)
• Graves, Dr. Charles
• Gray (family)
• Greczmiel (family)
• Green (family)
• Green, John
• Greenland, Arne William
• Groberman, Joel
• Groenueld, John

H

• Hall, Bert
• Hall, Frederick John
• Hall, Isabella
• Hall, Rueben
• Hall, Dr. Sherwood
• Hall, William
• Halsey-Brandt, Greg
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hamson (family)
• Hann, Lillian
• Hardwick, Frederick John
• Harmon, Harry
• Harper, Eleanor "Dolly"
• Harris (family)
• Harris, Goldwin Hershall
• Harrison, Jack
• Hart, H.L.
• Harvey, Elsie M.
• Harvey, Terry
• Harwood, Donald George
• Harwood, Fred
• Harwood, Lilla Mabel (nee Simpson)
• Hass, Fred
• Hayashi, Rintaro
• Hayden (family)
• Hayne, James Arthur
• Hedges, Dennis
• Henderson, T. Nichol (Nick)
• Hendricks, Walter
• Hengstler, Ernest
• Henry (family)
• Hepworth, William G. (Dr.)
• Herbert (family)
• Hing, Harry
• Hirose, Tom
• Hirota, Hayao
• Hobbis, Robert
• Hoey (family)
• Hoggard, Cline Arthur
• Holmes, Albert Thomas Franklin
• Holt, James
• Homma, Tomekichi
• Horton, Art
• Horton, John
• Howard, Irene
• Howard, Thomas
• Howe, Frank
• Howe, May
• Howe, Samuel Lyness
• Howell, W.H.
• Howse, Lucy May
• Hunter, Elsie (nee Esplen)
• Hunter, Jim
• Hunter, Willian S.
• Huovinen, Inez
• Huston, Earle
• Huston, Wyn
• Huxley, Lillian
• Hyde, Michael

I

• Ilich (family)
• Ilich, Milan
• Irons, Gordon
• Irwin, Thomas James

J

• Jackobson, Henry
• Jacobson, Jack
• Jamieson, Reverend Robert
• Jamison, M.L. (Dick)
• Jensen, James Mikkelsen
• Johnson, Koko
• Jones, Ben
• Jones, Charles
• Jordison, W.H.
• Judd, George
• Jureit, Samuel

K

• Kacer, John
• Kapp, John
• Kartner, Walter
• Kelly, Archie
• Kelm, Albert
• Kerr, William (Bill)
• Ketcheson, Royal Phillip
• Keur, Geert Harm
• Kidd (family)
• Kilgour, Alexander
• Kirkpatrick, William Murray (Bill)
• Kitcher, Bertram
• Knight, Margorie (Rowllings)
• Knuth, Emil Otto
• Kobayashi (family)
• Kojima, Jim
• Koning, Jack
• Koyanagi, Toshitsugu (Toshi)
• Kreslin, Jessie Ellen (nee Wilson)
• Kulawec, Nick
• Kumagai, Kiichi
• Kuno, Gihei

L

• La Riviere, Marie Rosalie
• Laing (family)
• Lam, Jane Kang Eng
• Lam, Jessie
• Lam, Ling
• Lane, William
• Lang, Arthur James
• Lannoville, Dolphus
• Lapka, William
• Lasko, Bill
• Lasko, John
• Laubenstein, Glen
• Lawley, Hattie
• Leaf, Lily Alice
• Leavy, Jack
• Lechew, Thomas
• LeCours, Ernie
• Lee, Horace Reginald
• Lee, Norma
• Lee, Ping-Chen
• Lee, Walter
• Lemiski, R.J.
• Lemon, George
• Lemon, Reginald
• Lenglet, Mary
• LeNoble, Jim
• Leonen, Nick
• Lesley, Arthur Bennet
• Leslie, Stan
• Leslie, Thomas Ellis
• Leslie, Thomas Samuel
• Leversage, Gordon
• Lewis, William
• Light, Bob
• Lind, Eleanor
• Littlejohn, Douglas
• Livingstone, Delbert
• Logan, Theodora Marion
• Lomas, Joe
• London (family)
• Loo, Wong Y.C.
• Lord, Arthur Edward
• Lord, Mary
• Lorenz, Ted
• Lougheed, Mrs. Warren
• Lovick (family)
• Lowe, Harvey
• Lowe, Jack
• Lubzinski, Jack
• Lutes, D.T.

M

• Macarthur, Hugh
• Macdonald, John Aikins
• MacFarlane, Laura Viola
• Mackie, George Watt
• Mackie, Margaret Elizabeth
• MacLeod, Alyce
• MacLeod/Gatz, Elizabeth "Betty" Isobel
• MacNeill, Allan Roy
• MacNeill, Roy
• Macnicol, Robert
• MacWilliam, Ruth Askew
• Maddocks, Robert
• Magar, Ralph
• Magee, George
• Main, Alexander
• Main, Ken
• Mair, Margaret
• Maltby, Granville
• Mang, Charles
• Mann, Ron
• Marrington, Herb
• Marshall, John Henry
• Marshall, Norman
• Martin, Charles
• Massey, George
• Masyk, Mable Winnifred
• Matier, Francis John
• Matson, Ethel
• Matson, Wallace Victor
• Maxwell, Richard
• May, Alice
• May (family)
• May, George
• May, H. Randall
• May, Harry
• Maydanyks, John
• McBey, Helen Robina
• McBride, John
• McBurney (family)
• McCallan (family)
• McCartney, William
• McCleery (family)
• McClelland, Cecil Eric
• McClelland, Bob
• McConkey, George
• McConnell, Gordon Gerald
• McConnell, James Noel
• McCormick, James
• McCulloch, Charles
• McCutcheon, Elvie
• McDonald, Bob
• McDonald, Duncan
• McDonald, Hugh H.
• McDonald, Norman
• McGeer, Gerald Grattan
• McGinnes, Mary Florence
• McGrath, Joseph
• McInnes, Audrey Elizabeth
• McIntosh, James
• McIvor, Dan
• McKaig, Donald Alexander
• McKay, Albert
• McKay, Donald E.
• McKay, Gordon E.
• McKay, Jessie
• McKendrick, Val Leslie
• McKenzie, Frida Albertina
• McKenzie, W.M.
• McKessock, Ross
• McKim (family)
• McKinney (family)
• McKinney, James Alton
• McKinney, William
• McLennan, Burns
• McLeod, Doug
• McLeod, Neal
• McMath, Robert A.
• McMillan, Nettie Elizabeth
• McMorran, Mel
• McMullen, William S.
• McMyn (family)
• McNair, Hugh
• McNair, Matthew (Max)
• McNaughton, Norman
• McNeely, Kathleen
• McNeely, William
• McRoberts, Hugh
• McRoberts, Jennie
• McRostie, Andrew
• McWaters (family)
• Mellis, Earle
• Mellis, W.K. Annabelle
• Merghant, Harold
• Metheral, Gordon H.
• Millcarch (family)
• Miller Ben
• Miller (family)
• Miller, John Wesley (Rev.)
• Millerd, Francis
• Milligan, Frank
• Millington, William
• Mills, Jessie T.
• Mills, Sarah
• Mineoka, Tsuguo
• Minlar, Marian
• Minler, Ruth Pauline
• Minns, Harry
• Mitchell (family)
• Moar, Mary Louise
• Moffatt, Arthur John
• Moffatt, Bernard
• Molberg, Knud
• Monk, Lloyd
• Montgomery, Samuel
• Moore, James Joseph
• Moore, W.G.
• Moreside, Elva Carson
• Moreside, James Benjamin
• Morishita, Eikichi
• Morphett, Bill
• Morris, Glyn
• Morrison, Kenneth John
• Morrison, William A.
• Mort, Albert Edward (Ted)
• Moskaluk, Charlotte Anne
• Moslin, Violet
• Mueller, Max
• Murakami, Tsuneko
• Murdoch, Jock (Rev.)
• Murray, Jim
• Mustart, Norman
• Myhill, Louis Ethelbert
• Myron, Ian

N

• Nedelak, Annie
• Nelson (family)
• Nelson, Frederick George
• Nelson, Hugh J.
• Nicholls, Terry
• Nielsen, Andrew S. (Andy)
• Nielsen, Jim
• Nishi, Frank
• Noble, Madeline
• Norgan, George W.
• Norton, Charles J.
• Novakowski, Ernie

O

• O'Dell, Vera
• O'Neil, Kenneth
• Obayashi, Outard
• Oda, Mosabura
• Okamoto, C.
• Olafsen, Gordon
• Oldfield, Charles N.
• Olson, Albert
• Oppal, Wallace
• Osborne, Allan John "Gunner"
• Ostapchuk, Emily
• Owens, Kay
• Owens, William George (Bill)

P

• Palmberg, Annie
• Palmer, Robert Cecil
• Parker, Arthur
• Paterson (family)
• Paulik (family)
• Paxton, Charles
• Payne, Harry
• Pearson, Alf
• Pearson, Solomon Man
• Peterson, Bernard Charles
• Percival-Smith, Corisande
• Petts, Fanny
• Pfister, Paul
• Phillips, George
• Pitre, Wilf
• Point, J.
• Pope, Leonard Victor
• Porter, Annie
• Priester, H.J.
• Prittie, Robert William
• Prochnau, Rudolf
• Prokopiuk, Lidia
• Proteau, Ken

R

• Ransford, Bob
• Rathbun, George W.
• Reed, Tony
• Reeder, Will
• Rees, Rice
• Reid, David
• Reid, Edwin MacDonald (Max)
• Reid, Laura Edith
• Reimer, Kenneth Donald
• Rekis, Michael
• Reynolds, John Douglas
• Rixon, Archie
• Robb, Lorna
• Roberts, Ralph
• Roberts, Stan
• Robinson, Edgar Flemming
• Roche, Herber Colin Archibald
• Rorison, W.D.S.
• Ross, Hugh F.
• Ross, Robin DeMille
• Ross, Thomas John
• Rowan, Duncan
• Rowley, Harry
• Rowling, William Henry
• Runnals, Joyce E.
• Ruscheinski, Alois
• Russell, Jack
• Russell, Jack Sydney
• Rutledge, Margaret

S

• Sakamoto (family)
• Sakiyama, Fuku
• Sass, Mary
• Saunders, Mrs. John
• Saunders, Neil
• Savage (family)
• Schmidt, Florian
• Schmidt, Leon
• Scotchbrook, Robert Charles
• Scott, Parker E.
• Scratchley, William James
• Sexsmith, John Wesley
• Sharp, Richard
• Shaw, George
• Shaw, John
• Sheh, Violet Mae
• Shepherd, Julia Alberta
• Sherwood, George
• Shields, Edgar Joseph
• Shimizu, Hide (nee Hyodo)
• Short, Benjamin J.
• Short, Jack
• Siddall, Gertrude Isabell
• Siddon, Tom
• Sills, George William
• Simpson, John Robert
• Simpson, Walter R.
• Sing, Lee
• Singh, Bohla (Narian)
• Skinner, George W.
• Skuse (family)
• Slack (family)
• Smillie, George Williams
• Smith, Annie
• Smith, Arthur
• Smith, Caroline Matilda
• Smith, Edward (Rev.)
• Smith, James Gowan
• Smith, John Jardine
• Smith, Smokey (VC)
• Smith, William Clegg
• Smith, William John
• Smithson, Herbert
• Spires (family)
• Stapleton, Herbert
• Steeves, Walter
• Steeves, William Carvel
• Stevenson, Evelyn Emily
• Stevenson, Florence
• Steves (family)
• Steves, Ida
• Stewart, William Francis
• Stolberg, John
• Stuckberry, Harry
• Suzuki, T. Buck
• Sweet, Lulu
• Sweet, Orison Davis
• Swenns, Helen

T

• Tait, Robert John
• Tait, Sarah Elizabeth "Sadie" (nee Gilmore)
• Talmie, Richard C.
• Tapp, Frank R.
• Taylor, Frank
• Templeton, William
• Tenby, Lionel
• Thackray, Edwin "Dad Thackray"
• Thomas, Ebert E.
• Thomas, Stuart V.
• Thompson (family)
• Thompson, Jack
• Thornton, Emily
• Tibbits, Ethel
• Tilton, William
• Todd, Jacob Hunter
• Tomsett, Frederick Arthur
• Treichel, Ferdinand Adam
• Trites, Ada
• Trites, Edith
• Trites, Frank K.
• Trites, Gordon
• Trites, Harlen
• Trites, Nancy Margerete
• Trites, Wycliffe Steves
• Trueman, Frank
• Trutch, John
• Truttman, John
• Tryggvason, Bjarni
• Tucker, Grace
• Tucker, Lewis Ord Riddell
• Tufnail, Margaret Annie
• Turnill, Edgar Samuel

U

• Udy, Rachel Matilda
• Upshall, M.

V

• Vachon, Fernanco
• van Baggan, Poock
• Van Vorst, Jeannie
• Vander Zalm, William N.
• Varley, John
• Vennard, Irene
• Vermilyea (family)
• Vernes, Martha O.
• Vidulich, Marco

W

• Wadelin, Henry
• Wagner, Jack
• Wagner, Richard Alexander
• Walkem, George Alex
• Walker, Robert Edward
• Wallace, Emerson "Wally" (Capt.)
• Wallace, William
• Walmsley, Mary Alice
• Walter, Edward (Sir)
• Warman, Edward V.
• Waterfield (family)
• Watts, Francis Herbert
• Watts, George
• Webber, Joseph
• Webster (family)
• Weir, Al "Dead Pan Duke"
• Westman, Marjorie
• Wheeler, Arthur
• White, John
• Whiteside, Evlyn
• Whiteside, James
• Whitley, Jas (Sgt.)
• Whyte, John Arthur
• Wiley, John
• Wilkinson George Alfred
• Willett, John (Jack) Henry
• Williams, Edward
• Williams, Fred
• Williams, G.F.
• Williams, Guy
• Williams, J.T.
• Williams, James Percy (Jim)
• Williams, John
• Williams, John Barney
• Williamson, Floyd
• Wilson (family)
• Wilson, John
• Windram, Velma Irene
• Withers, Percy
• Wolfram, Edward
• Wong, Sam
• Wong, York
• Wood, Christopher
• Woodland, A.G. (Arthur)
• Woodward, Daniel
• Wowk, Myron
• Wray (family)
• Wrigglesworth, Norman
• Wright (family)

Y

• Yarmish, Mary
• Yee, Les (Constable)
• Yesaki, Moe (Mitsuo)
• Yodagawa, Mitsuru (Mits)
• York, John
• Youngberg, Theodore Melvin
• Yttri, Lillian V.
• Yurkovich, Anthony (Tony)

Z

• Zaruk, Frank
• Zellwegger, Klara
• Zylmans, (family)

 

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