| Charles Edwin Thompson
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September 17, 1890 – April 19, 1966 Originally from Grey County, Ontario, Charles Thompson served as Vancouver mayor for 1949-50. Teacher, rancher, automotive dealer, and from 1945 to 1948 an alderman, Thompson’s moyorality was marred by restrictions on civil liberties through a policy requiring all civic employees to be screened for communist sympathies. Initiated: Latonia Lodge No. 125, Sask. Affiliated: 1924/12/03 Melrose Lodge No. 67
Source: Grand Lodge of BC and Yukon records. “Mayors of Vancouver”, Donna-Jean MacKinnon, The Greater Vancouver Book. |