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Jean, a native to St.
Anicet Quebec moved to Vernon in 1887, where he found employment in the
Victoria Hotel. After working there for some time he moved to White Valley
to find "the good farm land". He was accompanied by a relative, Isaac
Deschamps possibly a brother or a cousin. Soon after the turn of the century
Jean bought land from G. Hankey, a Vernon Real Estate agent who bought
the land for taxes. He then traded it and all the land he owned for one-hundred
sixty acres belonging to his son. About 1920 Jean and Zelma moved to Lumby
to retire. They built a house on Vernon Street where Jean passed away
in 1933.
Joseph, known as Isaac or Joe, led an active and varied life. At the
age of fourteen he got a job in Vernon working on the excavation of
the basement of the Coldstream Hotel. On February 15th, 1909, he married
Elena Guest. In April of 1900, Joe and his father had taken up a quarter
section of land in Creighton Valley. On the property he built a large
home for his bride. In his logging days Joe built a self braking sleigh
and invented the device in 1917. During the first World War, the family
moved to Vernon where they lived in a brick house on thirty-second Street.
After moving back to Lumby in the 1940's Joe passed away in 1964.
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