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Offline Jane Sharp

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William Richard Johnstone
« on: Saturday 11 November 23 08:52 GMT (UK) »
Hello

My apologies - I didn't mean to post in Canada resources ! I meant to post in Canada look up request !

I am researching my grandfather - William Richard Johnstone b1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. After many years of searching, I recently discovered he was my grandfather via a first cousin DNA match. (my Nan had an affair during the war while her husband was away and she never divulged his identity)

One of his other grandchildren who I met online via facebook has given me some information so far, and I've added it to my tree.

He was a Royal Canadian Airforce pilot in WW2 and served in England (where he fathered my Mum but didn't marry my Nana). Not sure if he served elsewhere.

He returned with an English wife, Joan (nee Dallimore) and daughter T A Johnstone, and they moved to British Columbia and lived in Vancouver and Victoria. He later divorced Joan and married a lady named Ollie.

I'd love to find his birth record in Manitoba, his second marriage record which I believe would have been in Vancouver or Victoria (I do not know his second wife Ollie's surname at this point) and also the birth records of his children A E Johnstone & D J Johnstone.

I have created a public profile of him on my ancestry family tree.

https://www.ancestry.com.au/family-tree/person/tree/161900165/person/292291503199/facts

I'm finding Canadian research so hard as everything seems to be spread over many sources.

If anyone can help find out about him and his children (my aunts and uncles) I'd much appreciate it.

Thank you kindly

Jane

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Re: William Richard Johnstone
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 11 November 23 09:51 GMT (UK) »
You should be able to get his WW2 service record from the Federal Library and Archives of Canada (LAC). However be prepared for along wait. I have only just received a service record I first ordered in Aug 2019. I can't find a link for this service on the LAC website so maybe they are trying to discourage requests until they have cleared the backlog.

As you have found, most other official records are held at the provincial level, meaning that anyone who lived in several places in Canada will have different sets of records in different places. No different to the UK and Ireland really where England and Wales, and Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all have their own sets of records covering different time scales, and differing procedures for how to access them.

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Re: William Richard Johnstone
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 11 November 23 11:19 GMT (UK) »
Most of the records for the time frame you require are protected by very strict privacy in Canada.


I wonder if this could be a picture of him ??  Just to bear in mind at mo.

Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 
Sat, 11 Nov 2006 Page 59

https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist/134997583/

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Added The names of the two children with the initials you mentioned in the obituary are in reply 6
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Re: William Richard Johnstone
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 11 November 23 11:20 GMT (UK) »
Another possible if he used the middle initial.


1931 census Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

William Johnstone 46 Head
Jane Johnstone 43 Wife
Robert Johnstone 17 Son
John Bell Johnstone 15
Son William R Johnstone   7   Son

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Re: William Richard Johnstone
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 11 November 23 11:24 GMT (UK) »

IF this is the correct family :

FIND A GRAVE

Father William Johnstone -  1884 - 1975

Saint Vital Cemetery
Saint-Vital, Greater Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
PLOT 02-0630-0

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40590722/william-johnstone

mother - Janet - 1887 - 1956

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40590722/william-johnstone

brother John B Johnstone -1916 - 2003

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40590721/john-b-johnstone

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Re: William Richard Johnstone
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 11 November 23 11:27 GMT (UK) »
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Re: William Richard Johnstone
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 11 November 23 11:29 GMT (UK) »


Obit - Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Wed, 22 Dec 1993 Page 36

https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist/134997700/

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Re: William Richard Johnstone
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 11 November 23 11:35 GMT (UK) »


Brother John B Johnstone - BORN: FEB 04, 1916
DATE OF PASSING: FEB 11, 2003

Obit mentions Dick and Ollie -

https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-75680/JOHNSTONE_JOHN ;D

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« Reply #8 on: Saturday 11 November 23 12:22 GMT (UK) »
Posted for information purposes - Still living 2000

Times Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Sat, 1 Jan 2000
Page 23

https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist/134998526/

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