George Wellington Babcock

Born in Uxbridge, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario
Started working as a boilermaker in Grand Trunk Railroad shop in Regina. On Island foir 1921 census, married, 4 children, boilermaker, living at Headquarters.
Headquarters is northwest of Courtenay. Its name reflects the fact that the land served as the base of Comox Logging between 1911 and the late 1950s. Although it is difficult to tell now, a fully serviced community once occupied the Headquarters Townsite Park area and lands to the east. There was a store, post office, blacksmith, hotel, dance hall, ball diamond, tennis court and 20 company homes in addition to the round house and repair yards for railway and logging equipment. The community even had its own orchestra, which played at Saturday night dances. This model town was first known as Fraserville and later called Headquarters.
Buried in Courtenay Civic Cemetery, British Columbia.
Loyalist Ancestor: David William Babcock Capt., 1752-1828, Cataraqui, Kingston, Frontenac Co., Ontario.