Harry Stanley Bate

   Cause of his death was Cause of his death was Cerebral Hemorrhage.

  General Notes:

Written by Kay Would in 1984:

"He arrived in Canada at age 17 years. Joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1914. Served in the Mediterranean on a minesweeper. Married August 5, 1917. Returned to Canada after the war, bought a house on Royal Oak Avenue, Burnaby. Worked for Columbia Paper Company. Served as Police Commissioner until 1925 In Burnaby. Was secretary for the Labour Party then Canadian Commonwealth Federation was formed. A deep thinking man who read volumes and collected classical records ordered from England. "

Excerpts from a letter written July 29th, 1975 by Bertha Sawyer:

"Only son of Florence and Harry Bate, born in E. Dulwich 1895. Went to Goodrich Rd. school, same as myself. Won a scholarship at 10 years of age. Went to Battersea
Polytechnique. Then worked for the London County Council school supplies. Taking on
similar work in Canada at Columbia Paper Company until his death in 1945."

Harry married Bertha (Bunny) Sawyer, daughter of Willard Robert Sawyer and Eliza Frances Daimon, on 5 Aug 1917 in E. Dulwich, London, England. (Bertha (Bunny) Sawyer was born on 10 Feb 1889 in 95 Hindman Rd., E. Dulwich, London, England and died on 27 Dec 1976 in New Westminster, B.C., Canada.). The cause of her death was brain tumour.