{"id":165,"date":"2015-04-16T22:17:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2017-09-10T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:44:42","slug":"ruth-wes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/ruth-wes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth & Wes Hanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Memories from Terry:<\/b><\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Places we lived: \u00a0Ruth and Wes and family lived in Salmon Arm where they had an apple orchard close to Shuswap Lake, they lived in Vancouver, moving to Gibsons about 1959 and finally to Saanichton on Vancouver Island in 1967, where they lived til the end of their days in the same house on East Saanich Road.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Family trips, activities, interests: \u00a0Ruth and Wes enjoyed long winter vacations in Mazatlan and later Palm Springs. \u00a0They started this while they were still commercial fishing and continued til the mid 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n

3. Wes\u2019 work: \u00a0After moving to Gibsons he worked for a short time at the Port Mellon pulp mill before buying his first commercial troller \u201cBobalong\u201d. \u00a0He eventually bought the 42\u2032 commercial troller \u201cRemuda\u201d and fished until the mid-1970\u2019s on the west coast of Vancouver Island and also the Queen Charlotte Islands. \u00a0Ruth and Terry were his \u201cdeckhands\u201d for many years. \u00a0Ruth and Wes would fish in the summer and spend a few months each winter in Mexico and later in Palm Springs.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Ruth\u2019s work\/interests included many things along the homemaking, sewing, gardening line. \u00a0She was a wonderful cook \u2013 her shepherd\u2019s pie recipe has been passed down to her grandchildren! \u00a0Her cakes, cookies, pies were famous among friends. \u00a0Her specialty was turkey dinner with all the fixins, complete with vegetables from her garden.<\/p>\n

5. \u00a0Memories of Grandpa West: \u00a0Grandpa West would come to Gibsons and Saanichton to plant and harvest the garden each year. \u00a0He would happily toil all day in the garden with a big straw hat on, coming in for lunch and again at about 3 for tea and cookies and a rest. \u00a0He liked to dunk his digestive cookies in his tea. \u00a0He would spend hours picking buckets of blackberries for Ruth to make blackberry and apple pies and also blackberry jelly. \u00a0He would spend time with Terry on the beach in front of their house in Gibsons (where Gibsons Marina now stands). \u00a0For Grandpa, Sunday was a day of rest \u2013 he would stay mainly in his room listening to Sunday Service on the radio.<\/p>\n

Wes b. Jan 23, 1916 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0d. July 7, 2001<\/p>\n

Ruth b. May 29, 1919 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0d. Jan 1, 1996<\/p>\n

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