The Hake Family
Fred, Elizabeth, Joffre Hake
Fred Hake was born in Buckland, St. Mary, Somerset, England on May 12, 1893 he emigrated to Canada prior to World War One.
In Canada he worked in the forestry industry receiving a special certificate as a "Logging Donkey Engineer" on 21 August 1913. On March 20th 1915 he enlisted at New Westminster and sailed back to Britain as a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from Montreal on June 17, 1915 on the SS Scandinavian. Originally stationed in England for about a year, he eventually served in France until March 15, 1918. He received his discharge papers in May of 1919.
Fred’s wife, Elizabeth Helen Brayley, was born in North Molton, Devonshire, England. They were married on November 5th, 1918 and came to Canada aboard the S.S. Haverford arriving in Halifax on May 18, 1920.
For the first year in Canada Fred again worked as a logger
but moved to the BC Sugar Refinery where he was employed from1922 to 1937.
Over the years the
city directories list
him
as as
a welder, mechanic or pipefitter for the sugar company.
The Hakes initially lived at 6595 Fleming - their son Joffre John
Brayley Hake was born there in 1922 - but in
1925 they moved a few houses along the street to 6559 Fleming which remained
the family home until 1977.
Joffre John Brayley Hake married Winnifred Beatrice Mary Theresa
Dalton on June 6th, 1949 at Saint Mary the Virgin South Hill Anglican Church,
808
East 50th
Avenue. Winnifred was born in Ottawa, Ontario on July 3rd, 1928, the daughter
of painter Stephen Joseph Dalton and Alvira Theresa Hayes. The Dalton family
was Roman Catholic originally from Ireland.
Fred Hake died of bronchial pneumonia on May 15, 1937 at the age of 44 in Shaughnessy
Hospital. He was buried May 18th in Mountain View Cemetery in the same plot where
later were buried Fred’s wife, Elizabeth Helen Hake, who died in on February
11, 1977 at the age of 82, Winnifred Beatrice Hake who passed away in 2001, and
her husband Joffre John Brayley Hake, who passed away in 2002.
Top left: Wedding Day Fred & Elizabeth Hake, Nov 5, 1918 at Newport, Barnstaple, Devon, England
Top centre: Fred Hake pre World War I working somewhere on Vancouver Island
Top right: Joffre Hake and his brother Francis
Frederick Faulkner Hake (who later became a Vancouver City Policeman)
