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1917-1923 (Creation)
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- Lavers, Aubrey Earle, 1889-1964
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2 leaves of textual records
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Aubrey Earle Lavers was born at Hantsport on 8 January 1889, the son of George Edward and Odessa Alberta (Earle) Lavers. He attended school in Halifax, finishing at Grade 8. Thereafter, he went to work as a pattern maker and joined the army on 12 October 1917, serving until 1919. He served with the 11th Siege Battery in France where he was slightly gassed and had a shrapnel wound. Upon his return to Canada he worked for a year as a pattern maker in Halifax and then went west to settle in Winnipeg, where he worked for the CNR in Transcona as a coach carpenter for 33 years. He died on 9 July 1964 in Winnipeg.
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Forwarded to Mr. Lavers' former landlady, Mary Waggoner, by the Deer Lodge Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba subsequent to his death. She in turn forwarded the documentation to Nova Scotia government employee, Fred A. Walsh, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture who in turn sent it to the Nova Scotia Archives.
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Consists of a newspaper clipping with a 1923 obituary of a 1917 Halifax Explosion survivor and a Western Union cablegram advising of the death of the recipient's mother and brother during that great tragedy.
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Donated by Mary Waggoner of Winnipeg in 1990.
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