My grandmother Eliza (Brown) Catterall was born on May 7, 1867 at Pembroke, Ont. Her father John Brown was born in 1809 and died in 1906 in Ontario.
In the 1890s my grandmother moved to Calgary, in the North West Territories, to help her sister run a boarding house. This sister, my great-aunt, had been widowed with four young daughters.
In 1900 my grandfather Walter arrived in Calgary from Lancashire, England. He stayed and met Eliza at her residence. They were married in 1901. They had three children, Ted, Vincent (my father) and Edith. In 1906 they moved to Victoria. My grandfather worked at Spencer鈥檚 store.
In 1910 they bought 22 acres in Cordova Bay and built a beautiful home and moved into it in 1911. They became the first year-round residents of 鈥淭he Bay.鈥�
They started Catterall鈥檚 Dairy (Jersey cows only) which was in operation to 1937. My grandfather died in 1951 and grandmother in 1954 with a total of 11 grandchildren. 鈥� John Catterall