{"id":54,"date":"2008-11-01T02:33:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T06:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2010-02-08T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T18:22:46","slug":"canadian-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68_1 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69ee6cd9bde2f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69ee6cd9bde2f\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#The_Canadian_Story\" title=\"The Canadian Story\">The Canadian Story<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Lucas_Family\" title=\"Lucas Family\">Lucas Family<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Brighty_Family\" title=\"Brighty Family\">Brighty Family<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Ronald_and_Norah_Lucas\" title=\"Ronald and Norah Lucas\">Ronald and Norah Lucas<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Ron_and_Pat_Lucas\" title=\"Ron and Pat Lucas\">Ron and Pat Lucas<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Jane_Lucas\" title=\"Jane Lucas\">Jane Lucas<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Anne_Lucas_and_Ross_Campbell\" title=\"Anne (Lucas) and Ross Campbell\">Anne (Lucas) and Ross Campbell<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Broughall_Family\" title=\"Broughall Family\">Broughall Family<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/#Katherine_Lucas_and_Brian_Power\" title=\"Katherine (Lucas) and Brian Power\">Katherine (Lucas) and Brian Power<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Canadian_Story\"><\/span>The Canadian Story<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lucas_Family\"><\/span>Lucas Family<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Ronald Fairfax Lucas came to Canada in 1904 at the age of 21.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evidently he had a letter of introduction and through this he secured a position in Montreal with the Bank of British North America.\u00a0 The family story is that he came with his cousin Will Macmillan, however I have yet to find any passenger records for Will.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald had various posts, including Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, the site of the Riel Rebellion twenty years earlier. Gradually he kept moving west, living in Canal Flats, British Columbia, before finally ending up in Edmonton, Alberta.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Brighty_Family\"><\/span>Brighty Family<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Norah Brighty, the future wife of Ronald Lucas, was born in 1893 in Oundle, Northamptonshire. While she was still a child, around the age of five, her father decided to bring his family to North America. First they lived in Halifax for a year or so, and then they moved to Boston, and finally to Somerset, Massachussets, where they remained until Norah finished high school.<\/p>\n<p>Norah had an older sister Kate, who had studied nursing at Columbia in New York and then gone to work in Alberta as a public health nurse. After Norah finished school she went to Alberta to be with her sister, and it was while she was there that she met and married Ronald Lucas in 1915.<\/p>\n<p>In her later life Norah&#8217;s mother, known to the grandchildren as <a href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/?page_id=169\">DraDra,<\/a> wrote a brief reminiscence of her early years.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ronald_and_Norah_Lucas\"><\/span>Ronald and Norah Lucas<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Ronald and Norah lived in Edmonton for several years, where their two children were born, first Ronald Fairfax Lucas in 1916, and then Katherine Shaw Lucas in 1918. During this time Ronald did various things including owning a garage, the Lucas Garage.\u00a0 Strangely, not much information about this venture has survived,\u00a0 even in family stories.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1928 they moved to Vancouver, where Ronald again had various positions for several years. At one point he had a timber licence for poles and the family lived for two very interesting years at Pemberton, near present-day Whistler. Unfortunately there was a huge forest fire and that whole business was wiped out, and the family returned to Vancouver, this time living in the Kerrisdale neighbourhood of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>The family remained in Vancouver, and during this time young Ron&#8217;s sister Kathy had a best friend named Pat Broughall, who lived just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald (junior) graduated from high school and became a teacher in several locations in British Columbia before joining up with the Canadian Army during World War II. During the war he kept in touch with Pat Broughall, who by this time was in the British Army, and in 1943 they were married in Whittington, Shropshire.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ron_and_Pat_Lucas\"><\/span>Ron and Pat Lucas<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>After the war Ron and Pat lived in Vancouver for a while and Ron finished his degree at the University of British Columbia. They then moved to Oliver, a small town in central BC in the Okanagan area, where Ron had a teaching position. They lived there for several years, and in 1949 I was born (Katherine Jane Lucas).<\/p>\n<p>Then followed several years of moving around the province where Ron had different teaching and administrative positions. In 1952 the family moved to Fort St. John in the north, and in 1954 to McBride, farther south, but still only accessible by train. In 1956 it was off to Prince Rupert on the north coast of the province and in 1957 Anne was born. In 1960 the family was off to Courtenay, on Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p>This time Ron had a new position, as a District Superintendent of Schools. His area covered a large part of the coast of BC in many small villages. During this time I graduated from high school in 1967 and was off to the University of Victoria the next year. The parents were still moving however, and in 1970 they were back in Prince Rupert again for another seven years. My sister Anne graduated from high school there, and in 1976 married Ross Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>In 1977 Ron retired, and to celebrate this occasion they immediately embarked on a three month bus trip overland from London to Nepal. They got the travel bug from this, and subsequently had many more interesting trips all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>After the big trip overland they moved, for the last time, to West Vancouver, and have been here for over 30 years now. They bought a wonderful small apartment right on the waterfront in West Vancouver, and a few years later a cabin property a little over an hour&#8217;s drive north of Vancouver on the way to Whistler.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jane_Lucas\"><\/span>Jane Lucas<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>I graduated from the University of Victoria and spent several years as a teacher librarian in elementary schools. After six years I left the school system and did all kinds of other things for a number of years, and in 1990 went back to university and graduated with a Master of Library Science in 1992. Since then I&#8217;ve been working at a public library in West Vancouver, and also have a fee-based information service for corporate libraries.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Anne_Lucas_and_Ross_Campbell\"><\/span>Anne (Lucas) and Ross Campbell<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Anne and Ross were married in Prince Rupert in 1976. While they lived there they had two children, Jessica, born in 1979, and Shawn, born in 1981. Ross had various positions in the fish processing industry in Prince Rupert over the years, and Anne raised the kids and as well having a successful pottery business.<\/p>\n<p>In 1988 they made the big move out of Prince Rupert to Campbell River on Vancouver Island, where Ross began working in the farm fish industry. All the family has enjoyed living in Campbell River.<\/p>\n<p>Jess is trained as both a photographer and an optician, and is currently in Campbell River and getting income from both those areas. Shawn and Lacee Thulin are the proud parents of Landon, born in September 2002 and Micah, born in December of 2008.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Broughall_Family\"><\/span>Broughall Family<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Broughall family had been yeoman farmers in the northwest corner of Shropshire for as far back as I have been able to trace. I found it interesting that for over 300 years they had stayed in more or less the same station in society, that of the yeoman farmer and had neither been &#8220;ag labs&#8221; nor had risen to county squires. They farmed in the area between Oswestry and the Welsh border, sometimes staying on the same farm for several generations.<\/p>\n<p>By 1925, however, my grandfather Edward Broughall, realized that economics had finally reached the point where he could not remain at his current farm, and so the decision was made to emigrate. There were two choices: a good friend of Edwards&#8217;s had emigrated to Rhodesia, and the sister of his wife Jane had emigrated to British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what it was that tipped the scales, but in the end the choice was British Columbia, and in 1926 the family came to Canada. Money was sent ahead and a farm was purchased in Agassiz, in the Fraser River valley near Vancouver. First there was a long train journey across Canada, and then, in the middle of the night in the darkness, the destination was reached and suddenly, there they were, wondering which way was up!<\/p>\n<p>Edward and Jennie (Jane) Broughall and their four children, John, Margaret, David, and Pat were at Agassiz for a few years, but unfortunately in 1928 Edward died of a heart attack at the very young age of 45. Around the same time David also had heart problems at the age of 14, and so the family rented out the farm and moved to Vancouver to live with Jennie&#8217;s sister Ethel Grayston and her family in Kerrisdale in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Katherine_Lucas_and_Brian_Power\"><\/span>Katherine (Lucas) and Brian Power<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Katherine married Brian Power, her high school sweetheart from Kerrisdale, in 1942. He was in the Canadian Air Force and while they were posted in Manitoba, their daughter Judith was born in 1944. Their second child Geoff, was born in 1946. The Power family lived for many years in Ontario and Quebec, where Brian had various positions as a senior executive with large corporations. Both Judy and Geoff grew up and graduated from school in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in 1970 Brian died of a heart attack, and shortly after that Katherine and Judy moved back to British Columbia, and they have lived in West Vancouver since then. Judy worked with various businesses over the years, and she has recently retired from the Workers&#8217; Compensation Board.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff remained in Ontario for several years, and then came out to Whistler, BC, and was there duing the beginnings of the development of the resort municipality. \u00a0 He has owned and managed several businesses over the years. He and his wife Nancy have two daughters, Kate, born in 1981, and Mimi, born in 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Story Lucas Family Ronald Fairfax Lucas came to Canada in 1904 at the age of 21.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evidently he had a letter of introduction and through this he secured a position in Montreal with the Bank of British North America.\u00a0 The family story is that he came with his cousin Will Macmillan, however I have yet to find any&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/canadian-family\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janelucas.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}