Everything tagged: Canada

Audrey Josephine Howe married Reginald Albert Camidge of the Chartered Bank at St. John's Cathedral on 10 December 1924.

After the fall of Hong Kong, the bankers and their spouses were initially accommodated at the Sun Wah Hotel. They were moved to Stanley Camp in May/June 1943 and billeted in Bungalow 'E'.

As Audrey Camidge was a Canadian national, permission was granted by the Japanese authorities for her to be repatriated on Teia Maru/Gripsholm. She left Stanley Camp in September 1943.

Frank Herbert Bowrey does not appear on the Jurors List. However, his name surfaces in the local newspapers around 1937. He was an accountant and a member of the Key-Posts group in the Hong Kong Defence Reserve.

During the Japanese occupation, he was interned at Stanley Camp. In 1943, permission was given by the Japanese authorities for him to be repatriated to Canada.  He travelled on the Teia Maru/Gripsholm and arrived in Canada in December 1943.

Sheila Mary Baskett was born in Victoria, B. C., Canada in 1916. When she was four, she moved to England. 

She arrived in Hong Kong around 1933 and later found a secretarial post at the Asiatic Petroleum Co. Ltd.. Her father, Paul Evelyn Baskett was working in Hong Kong at the time.

A daughter of missionaries, Margaret Jaffray was born in the mission field in 1907. She received her early education at the Chefoo School in North China, a Christian British-style boarding school, and visited her parents during the winter months. Later, she attended high school in Toronto, completed a business course, and then returned to China to work as her father’s secretary, all while learning Chinese. 

John Livingstone McPherson was a missionary with the Canadian Presbyterian Church whose life’s work was developing the YMCA movement in Hong Kong from 1905 to 1935.

[Updated 19/12/2025]

In the early 20^th century, the Canadian Rev. Dr. Robert Alexander Jaffray had a long and illustrious career in Southeast Asia as a missionary to China, Indonesia and several other countries.  

[Updated 03/Apr/2026]

Reverend Ernest Chalmers Mitchell and his wife Lena, served as missionaries of the Covenanter (Reformed Presbyterian) Church, North America early last century, in China.

Clement Albert Braga

Born, Macau 23 September 1902; died, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 
7 February 1972, aged 69.

Married: to Muriel Williamson in 1938 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Children: One daughter: Edith Lynne Braga, born 27 July 1946

Lynne Braga wrote fully and frankly about her father’s life in Canada between 1946 and 1972, but she knew little about his earlier years. Accordingly, this account is supplemented by extracts from Stuart’s book, Making Impressions.

Florence Li Tim-Oi was a Hong Kong born Anglican Priest, and the first woman in the Anglican communion ever to be ordained (1944, by Bishop Ronald Hall).