Michael married Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David Ray was usually just called "Ray". As a child, Ray contracted infantile paralysis, which caused lifelong lameness.

He taught in Bowsman, Manitoba in 1923-25 after graduating from high school. He then attended Queen's University, and graduated with a B.A. and a M.A. His M.A. thesis in the Department of History was "The Governor and Council in Canada 1764-1774". He then studied Chartered Accountancy, and graduated from the Institute of Accountancy of Manitoba in 1936. He worked as a chartered accountant in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, employed by T.A. Getty, The Henderson's Moose Jaw Directory for 1938 showed him living at the YMCA.

Ray had several business trips to Toronto in 1937 and 1938, during one of which he met Lola Passmore. They had apparently first met in December of 1927, according to Lola's diary, possibly through Ray's cousin Marjorie Hopper who lived on Brunswick Avenue in Toronto, on the same street as Lola at that time. In the summer of 1938, they spent time at a resort in Muskoka, Ontario, and Ray proposed to Lola. In the time between then and the following summer, when they married, they kept in touch by numerous letters.

The 1939 Moose Jaw Directory showed Ray living at 12 High E., Apt. 302. After marrying Lola Passmore in July, 1939, and returning with her to Moose Jaw, Ray and Lola lived at 1212 Redland. Their son David was born in Moose Jaw in August, 1940. In 1942, Ray and Lola and David moved to 17 Anderson Avenue in Toronto, where Ray worked as a chartered accountant with the George A. Touche Company, a predecessor of today's Deloitte Touche accounting firm. Around 1945, he started working for the Dominion Income Tax Bureau as a tax assessor. He later worked for Noranda Mines as an accountant, retiring in 1969. After retirement, Ray and Lola spent a year travelling in Europe, after which they moved into a newly built house in the Thetis Heights suburb of Victoria, B.C., where Ray was able to indulge his love of gardening. In the 1970s Ray and Lola travelled in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Ray was an avid genealogist. Much of the Falconer, Speers and Bartleman family history information came from his research. In the 1950s he was Secretary of the Speers Family Association.

The ancestors of David Ray Falconer are found at http://dunkeldfalconer.tribalpages.com/

David married Louisa Mary PASSMORE on 22 Jul 1939 in Toronto, Ont.. Louisa (daughter of Alfred Clarence PASSMORE and Sarah Ella FRASER) was born on 25 Jun 1899 in Huttonville, Peel County, Ontario; died on 17 Feb 1985 in Victoria, British Columbia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

During the first world war, she corresponded with several soldiers serving in France who were from her Huttonville high school class. Letters to her from these soldiers have been preserved. Her most frequent correspondent, from the time he enlisted in 1915 until his death on May 9, 1917 (missing in action, presumed dead) was George H. Tripp.

Lola trained to be a teacher and taught at King Edward Public School in Toronto from the early 1920s until her marriage in 1939. She also took night courses at Central Technical School. She lived with her great aunt Mary Ann Passmore, and her parents at 83 Brunswick Avenue in Toronto, fromm 1916 to 1934.

Lola's diaries, up to the late 1930's have been preserved. Until her marriage, she lived with her parents, enjoyed a very active social life, and was also very active in her church. During the 1920s and 1930s, she had many suitors, and more than one marriage proposal. She likely broke a few male hearts. With friends, she travelled to Europe in the summer of 1930. She also travelled to parts of the eastern USA during summers in the 1920s. She travelled later to Bermuda.

Lola's first mention in her diary of Ray Falconer was in December of 1927. She did not say how they met, but it might have been through Ray's cousin Marjorie Hopper, who lived up the street from Lola's family on Brunswick Avenue in Toronto.