first Lasqueti Days of the Dead celebration
There will be a Day of the Dead gathering at the Community Hall on Sunday, November 2.
Some material will be posted and displayed at the hall starting Saurday afternoon, but a large amount of material will be at the hall on Sunday, including lots of material written and collected by Pat Forbes.
Everybody is invited to come, and to bring photographs, mementos, etc. of their own beloved dead.
Some material will remain at the hall til Thursday or so, but some of it will only be there on Sunday.
There will be a brief ceremony of some sort at 2pm, but come earlier and stay later. Bring food, drink, and a coin or two towards hall rental. There will be opportunities to share stories and memories, and learn about our community beforeenow.
Everyone welcome. FMi or to add to or correct the list of Lasqueti dead, contact Peter J, and come to the hall.
?, ? (guy Tom W found in the woods)
?, Joseph
?, Lucky
Neil Anderson
Luella Appledorf (Turgeon)
Uncle Jimmy Armour
Robert Arne
Jack Arnold
Minn Arnold
Mr Babb.
Chris Bearchell
Charlie Bearcroft
Nellie Bearcroft
Joseph Beatty
Sarah Beatty
Terry Beck
Mary Bennett
Isabelle Bickford
Gordon Bisset
Louis Bourcier
Rosemary Brown
Annie Camp
Happy Camp
Trey Carey
Anthony Carter
Bert Carter
Ian Cole
John Collins
Bob Conn
Laura Conn
Albert Cook Jr.
Douglas Cook
Albert Cook
Bertha Cook
Fred Cook
Louise Cook
Manfred Cook
Vera Cook
Hattie Copley
Merien Copley
Mrs Corfield.
David ? Cowley
Dwayne Creekmore
Betty Darwin
Charlie Darwin
Ed Darwin
Mabel Darwin
Derrick De Mynn
Fred Diewert
Ray Diewert
Compton Domville
Archie Douglas
Beatrice Douglas
Chester Douglas
Dorene Douglas
Emma Douglas
George Douglas
George Douglas
George Douglas
George Douglas
Irene Douglas
Norman Douglas
Tess Douglas
Alan Farrell
Sharie Farrell
Jim Ferris
Francis Fisher
Henrietta Fisher
Judith Fisher
Mark Fisher
William Fisher
Kim Foikas
Agnes (Nana) Forbes
Cyril Forbes
Peter Forbes
Barbara Gale
Tom Gale
Al Gawn
Aurelle Gerrard
? Gillespie
Jean Gillespie
Jane Penny Gillespie
Charlie Graham
Larry Grebliunas
Ed Harper
Marge Harrison
Tom Harrison
Lory Haukedal
John Edward Hawkshaw
Cedric Hawkshaw
Jack Hiltz
Joan Hiltz
George Holland
Gerry Holland
Rand Holmes
Michael Humphries
Lance Johnson
Lucile Johnson
Cal Jones
Laurienne Jones
Robin Jones
Alex Kavadis
Hoss Kristinsson
Jack Kurtzhals
Mabel Kurtzhals
Pegge Kurtzhals
Rudolph Kurtzhals
Peter Kuyt
Alex Laing
Claire Laing
Ian Laing
Stuart Laing
Tom Laing
Paul Lambert
Velina Lambert
Gary Landsdown
John Lauks
Bill Lawson
Peggy Lawson
Scotty Lawson
Hans Lehmann
Dan Lenfesty
Margaret Lenfesty
Katherine Lewis
Ralph Lewis
Edith Livingstone
Evelyn Livingstone
Fred Livingstone
Harry Livingstone
Kate Livingstone
Phil Looney
Dale Lowry
Earl Lowry
Pat Lowry
Charlie Lundgren
Alfie Mann
Earl Mann
Isabelle/Isabella Marchand
Elda Mason
Laurie Mason
Jenny McAdam
Dennis McBride
Harold McCurdy
Betty McFeely
Tara McGibbon
Lorne McKelvey
Judith McMullen
Agnes Millicheap
T.A.(Archie) Millicheap
Tom Millicheap
Robert Moser
Bessie Nichols
Carl Nichols
Eric Nichols
Florrie Nichols
Karl Nordland
Jean Oben
Philip Oben
Roy Oben
Franke Oliver
Gordie Olson
Rosemary Olson
Al Palmer
Onslow Parry
Sally Parry
Henry Pearson
Ian Pearson
Paula Pearson
Margaret Pearson
Evadne Philips
Ray Purcell
Art Raines
Joseph Reid
Richard (Brother R)Resseger
Bill Richardson
Jessie Richardson
George Richarson,
Gordie Ridout
Ralph Roberts
Rita Roberts
Fernand Roussel
John Runnings
Art Ryan
Helen Ryan
Irene Ryan
Bruce Sampson
Karl Schumach
Rosa Schumach
Sam Scott
Minn Sjolseth-Carter
Bonnie Smith
Homer Stevens
Werner Szylek
John Tansey
Jack Thomas
India Trinley
Eva Tucker
Jan Vandendries
Cecil Varney
Nancy Varney
Salina Vincent
Gil Vossler
Lief Walin
Treant Wamer
Mabel Warnock
Beverly Ann Watkins
Richard Weipert
Albert Welsh
Klara Welsh
baby? Whyte
John Whyte
Ruth Whyte
Bruce Whyte
Jack Whyte
Mae Whyte
Rita Whyte
Annie Williams
Charles Williams
Della Williams
Ray Williams
The Unknown Lasqueti dead
In the 130 years or so during which non-indigenous, mostly European, people have lived on Lasqueti, well over 200 Lasqueti people have died.
This is six or seven generations, figuring 20 years per generation.
Indigenous North Americans, now known as First Nations because they were here first, lived on the coast, including on Lasqueti, for at least 3,000 years, and perhaps as many as 10,000 years. This is between 150 and 500 generations.
Please think briefly of the thousands of people, probably tens of thousands, who lived and died on Lasqueti before Europeans arrived.
One of the best ways of honouring them (or at least not dishonouring them) is to preserve (and avoid destroying) the traces of their lives that we live on and among.
The archaeological remains are nearly all that remains of their time here, since their culture and way of life was so thoroughly destroyed, mostly by the diseases that Europeans brought to North America.
FIRST LASQUETI DAYS OF THE DEAD CELEBRATION
"What is remembered lives."
Here’s a list of people who we know that have lived on Lasqueti and have really crossed over "to the other side"! Please add any names that you remember that aren’t here.
On Sunday at 2pm there will be a gathering at the hall to eat, drink and tell stories as a way of honouring these folks and our own personal "beloved dead". Bring pictures, mementos, snacks, laughter, tears etc.
Comments
Other one time residents
It might be nice if we could remember the many folks that lived on Lasqueti Island, but passed away in places like Nanaimo
or the from Lasqueti that have been lost in WWI or WW II.
One of those that was a WW I casualty is my great uncle
John Phillips.
cemetery list
I appreciate whoever is keeping these records up to date. I have a couple of corrections for the Gillespie's listed here. The listing with a question mark is for my father Clifford Wilfred Gillespie known to all his business contacts and friends as Cliff. The two listings that you have for Jean Gillespie and Jane Penny Gillespie are for one person, my mother. Her birth certificate lists her as being registered as Jane Penny but she wanted a more in style name so she chose to be known as Jean to all her friends and business contacts.
David Samuel Nichols
On David Samuel Nichols death certificate, it shows that he is buried in the Lasqueti Island Community Cemetery. I haven't been able to visit the island, so I hace no idea if he has a stone. His son is Dolson "Carl" Nichols, wife Flossie and two children Eric and Bessie are also buried there.
Lasqueti Dead
It is possible to post an article about Lasqueti people, both passed and loved.
For instructions, see: http://lasqueti.ca/books/how-to/submit-person
The current list of Lasqueti Dead (in-progress and wildly incompete) is here: http://lasqueti.ca/people/lasqueti+dead
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