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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]

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