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BIRTH: April 10, 1869 (Carlisle,
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Walter Jackson, born
April 10, 1869 in Carlisle, England, of Scottish descent, immigrated to
Canada in the early 1900's. Initially, he worked as a farm labourer near
Boissevain, Manitoba, where he met Bill Pierce, father of Ernie and Jack.
He came to British Columbia and worked at O'Keefe Ranch as a laborer,
but he was ambitious and looked for a higher paying job. Shortly after,
he became a bartender at the Victoria Hotel in Vernon. By frugal living,
he saved his money, enough to buy partnership in a hotel.
It was while working at the hotel that he met Marie Hansen, a fellow employee. Marie was born in Norway on February 2, 1876. They were married in Enderby in 1906. One year later, their first child was born at the Okanagan Landing
hotel, Henry William came into the world on January 1, 1907. On March 27, 1909, twin girls May and Maud were born at the Vernon Hospital, followed by Linda Josephine on August 31, 1909 and Hazel Marguerite on May 9, 1913.
In partnership with Angus MacDonald of Vernon, Walter bought the Ramshorn
Hotel in Lumby in 1912. Both Angus and his wife passes away shortly
after their purchase. Shortly after, the name was changed to the Lumby
Hotel. In 1914, they moved into their hotel. The bar was the paying
end of the business. When prohibition was proclaimed, business was also
dry. Income increased after the repeal of the law.
The construction of the railroad into Lumby brought a bigger boom,
not only to the town, but to the hotel as well. Walter was stricken
with cancer. He passed away in Kamloops hospital in 1930. After his
death, the hotel was run by Marie and the family until the disasterous
fire on October 4, 1932. They stayed in Lumby until the following
spring when the land was sold and they moved to Vancouver. Marie celebrated
her one hundred and third birthday in 1979 at Dogwood Lodge, Vancouver.
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