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Pease, Algernon Henry

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Title Able-Seaman (RNCVR)
Official Number VR-0580
 
Birth 19/05/1882 Death 00/00/1955
Place Hamsterley Place Oak Bay
Area Durham Area BC
Country UK Country Canada
 
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Biography
He was a financial agent at the time of his recruitment into the navy. He emigrated to Canada in 1907 and married Letitia Jean Brydges of Nova Scotia. Father of Frederick Fell Pease and Rosalind Fell Pease. He bought a farm at Strawberry Vale near Victoria and built a farm, specializing in chickens. He later purchased ten acres of land on the hilltop overlooking Cadboro Bay which he called Hamsterley. He sold the farm about 1920 and opened the Hamsterley Farm Jam Co. in 1921. In 1921 he bought property at the summit of the Malahat and established a tea room, later sold. He established the tea room at the north end of Elk Lake, sold in in 1939.
 
Military Service
He was appointed as an Able Seaman RNCVR in World War One stationed at HMC Dockyard Esquimalt. (He was demobilized.)
 
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References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/royal-canadian-navy-1910-1941-ledger-sheets/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=10660&; Pease (Terry), R.F. In Saanich: An Illustrated History.(1989); Blatherwick, John (1992);
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