CVA 586-9606 - Miss B.C. Fenby, Nurses Home #1, Essondale B.C.
Photograph taken Nov. 28, 1946 .
After a little searching found out that she is, Betty-Claire Fenby. She shows up only once in the 1947 directory, as working at Essondale.
The 1948 directory lists her as an employee at Canadian Forest Products, and rooming at 1107 7th Av., New Westminster.
Betty Claire Christiansen, was born on the 4th of August 1925 at Edmonton, Alberta; her parents were Grover Ashton Fenby (1888 - 1962) who worked as an engineer for the CNR; and her mother Ethel Alma Sparrow (1895 - 1965), Betty-Claire Christiansen died of lung cancer on the 29th of June 1990 at the age of 64, at St. Mary's hospital, New Westminster. Death Certificate ( One -- Two )
Betty was listed as a manager of a bakery on her death certificate, and lived in trailer #42, in the Wildwood Trailer Park, at 201 Cayer Street, in Coquitlam.
Listing of her siblings:
1 .Keith Bernard Fenby 1916
2. Kenneth Ashton Fenby 1918-1984
3. Glen Henry Fenby 1919-1996
4. Jack Dalton Fenby 1920-1922
5. Margaret Arleen Fenby 1923
6. Betty Claire Fenby "Christiansen" 1925 - 1990
The 1952 Directory lists her husband Roy Christiansen as working as a clerk for the CNR Express, and they lived at 1731 - 11th Avenue in Burnaby.
The next year Roy was a grader at J.R. Murray, which was a plywood and door manufacturer, and the couple had moved to 503 - 13th Avenue, in Burnaby, the next year Roy was listed as being a sander at J.R. Murray. Which is where my current access to directories ends.
No idea what she was doing at Essondale, but I assume from the photograph being taken in Nurses Home #1, that she was undergoing nurses training at Essondale.
