Mom and Dad were married at the Metropolitan United Church in Victoria, BC on February 16, 1944. Mom was an infants practical nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital and Dad was in the Royal Canadian Navy serving on corvettes on the Transatlantic run during WWII providing Britain with important supplies. They met in April, 1942 at a dance for servicemen held at the Crystal Gardens in Victoria.
He proposed to her by letter, suggesting they get married on his next leave (which would be in a few months of the letter). They first lived in apartments around the Beaconhill Park area of Victoria.
Dad had signed up for the RCN on his 18th birthday for seven years of service, and was discharged in the spring of 1947. He got a job in Vancouver at R. Angus & Sons, through connections in the RCN, and they moved to Vancouver in November 1947. Here is their first home in Vancouver, in the Collingwood area.
Wow...they look sooo young!
ReplyDeleteYour parents look really happy. And their first house is so cute.
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