| John Edmund Usborne of
Vancouver. Born September 7th 1909. Married Sheila. John died in 1985; Sheila in 1995. 
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| John was born in
Vancouver, attended High School there, then went on to Trinity College
School in Port Hope, Ont., graduating in 1927. After working in a bank
in Vancouver for several years, he joined Wrights
Canadian Wire Rope, selling rope to the logging industry. They lived in an "historic style house" in the Kerrisdale region of Vancouver where they raised their family. He formed his own company in the mid. 50's, and he and Sheila traveled the coast of British Columbia, distributing supplies to remote logging camps, in their forty foot power boat "Taseko". He retired in the mid .70's. |
Taseko |