Oscar Movold

  Research Notes:

1. Footsteps along the Stoney, page 309

- worked with CNR in BC - Blackpool [abt 10 kms south of Clearwater, along the highway and river
- worked in the gold mines at Chu Chua and Bralorne, BC
- also worked in Vancouver - riverter in the shipyards during WW II

2. World War I veteran

3. BC Archives - death 16 Dec 1980

- birth and death dates/location
- occupation - Miner
- wife - Margaret Helen Loughton - (informant)
- address: # 3, 1507 - 35 Ave, Vernon, BC
- Ole Movold and Gea Grue (both born in Norway)
- death cause - cardiac arrest
- Cremation - Pleasant Valley Memorial Chapel, Vernon (funeral directors)


4. Ronald Movold - WW 2 service file

- Ronald attended school in Kamloops from 1931-1938 and then in 1938-1942 he attended high school in North Vancouver
Thus the family first lived in Kamloops and then sometime in the summer of 1938, they moved to North Vancouver

5. Ancestry FT

[gmovold]; accessed 18 Jul 2024
link to Oscar Movold ... https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/169893531/person/292206754904/facts
- photo of Oscar ... photos of 4 of Oscar's boys - Art, Ronald, Clifford and Bert .... appears that Art is much younger - the others close to a similiar age
- also a photo of Art's family from about 1970s

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Military Service: ; Canadian World War I Overseas Expeditionary Force; Enlisted on 15 May 1918: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Canada. ^2105,2106

Oscar married Margaret Helen Loughton on 20 Oct 1924 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ²¹⁰³.^,2104 (Margaret Helen Loughton was born on 9 Dec 1906 in Drcitwich, England,²¹⁰⁷ died on 13 Feb 1994 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada ²¹⁰⁷ and was buried in Vernon Cemetery, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. Marriage - 1924, 20 Oct 1924, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Marriage date and location is recorded in Ronald Loughton Movold's WW II Service File, image 184