BIRTH:  Mar. 2, 1878 (Ontario)
DEATH:  Unknown

• He got married in 1908.
• Worked with meat products.
• Wife died Oct. 17, 1952.

Dave Law apprenticed in the meat cutting business in Hamilton as a young man. In his twenties, he headed west to Winnipeg. In May 1908, he married Emma MacMillan in that city. Emma was born in Lucan, Ontario, in 1888. In Winnipeg, he eventually owned two butcher shops, but disposed of them in 1913 to homestead in Elrose Saskatchewan.

The Laws had four children: Florence Nightingale, Marjorie Jean Evelyn, Charles Kenneth, and Margaret MacMillan. Marjorie died in the great flu epidemic in 1919, age eight years. The family moved west again, this time to Canoe, British Columbia, 1921. After a year there, they came to Lumby, where Dave bought the White Valley Meat Market from Alphonse Quesnel. Dave also played a leading role in the building of the Community Hall in 1934. He was the Community Club president at the time.

The depression rolled around in 1931, they opened their home and hearts to Emma's niece, Jean Baker. She lived with them and helped with the meat market until her marriage. Dave was forced to close up his shop in 1940 due to all the accounts that he received. He then went to work for the Farmer's Exchange, running the meat department until he retired. Emma suddenly passed away on October 17, 1952. Dave moved to Creston a few years after, he became the head priest of the United Church for nearly twenty years.