William James Campbell Hannah

William James Campbell Hannah, 1886-1943

  • Born in Nanaimo, Nanaimo Regional District, British Columbia.
  • Already in B.C. for the 1891 census as a 5 year old, parenst and 2 siblings, father was railroad labourer near Yale.
  • In 1911, living at Keefers in Frasr Canyon, married, one child, farmer on fruit ranch. Keefers was named after George Keefe, UE descendents engineer in charge of CPR railroad construction for some of the heaviest sections in the Fraser Canyon.
  • In 1921 census, living in Comox, married, two children , farmer, lived in Lazo near Comox airfield base.
  • Buried in Courtenay Civic  Cemetery, British Columbia.
  • •Loyalist Ancestor: William Ruttan Lieutenant, 1759  -1843,  Adolphustown, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario.
Keefer, Fraser canyon in 1880’s