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Offline caroldawn

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re whaling in canada
« on: Tuesday 30 June 09 08:19 BST (UK) »
 Hi

Im looking for info of a james Millar beleived to be in the early whaling in Canada .He was born in Perthshire Scotland and became an  ships engineer living firstly in liverpool, then immigrating to canada,with his wife annie and son Thomas in 1911., living in kootney  He died 1943 in Vancouver any body with any knowlege I would be most gratiful
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Re: re whaling in canada
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 01 July 09 23:03 BST (UK) »
Hi Carol,

You may want to try the Brish Columbia vitals site. Goes up to the 1970s I think. The web addy is: http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes. Hope this helps.

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