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Smith, Joseph Gordon
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- Smith, J. Gordon
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1874-1951
History
Joseph Gordon Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on August 16, 1874 [attestation papers say 1875]. As a young man he immigrated to Canada, ending up in Victoria, B.C. around 1898. In 1899 he married Emily Mabel Gale. Initially a reporter for the Victoria Times, J. Gordon Smith joined the Daily Colonist and became marine editor for that paper. In 1912 he left the newspaper field to join the civil service as a statistician in the Dept. of Lands. From 1909 to 1915, Smith was a Lieutenant in the 5th Regiment and in 1916 he joined the 143rd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. He served overseas until his medical discharge in 1919. He went back to work for the B.C. Government and retired from the B.C. Travel Bureau in 1941. Joseph Gordon Smith died in Victoria on September 28, 1951.
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Revised Khughes 2019-03-19
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Name taken from Central Name Authority files
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Personnel records of the First World War, LAC