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AMBROSE, Ambrose (Ambie) The Loyal Edmonton
Regiment June 13, 1920 - November 7, 2010 The
hands of time will not turn back to when we were
together. But in the memories we cherish you will
be with us forever. Forever in our hearts, Marian,
Phyllis & Julian, Denys & June, Larry & Toni and
nieces and nephews.
BARZ, Erwin Ernest Thursday, 08 Sep 2011 Salmon
Arm Observer Salmon Arm, BC. Erwin Ernest Barz,
born November 30, 1917 in Sandhof in the war
ravaged German state of East Prussia, passed away
in Salmon Arm, British Columbia on September
8, 2011. After moving to Essen as a child, Ernie
came to Canada with his family in 1928, living
in the Grandview Flats near Armstrong, British
Columbia, before moving to the Salmon River
Valley near Westwold. After a brief stay in Victoria,
he and his brother Arthur went to the Yukon,
where they worked on the gold dredge crews in
the Klondike Valley. For four years Ernie and Art
trapped, explored, prospected, and ran Chappie’s
Trading Post in the Bonnet Plume district of the
Yukon. In 1944, Ernie volunteered for the Canadian
Army, joining the Loyal Edmonton Regiment. He
went overseas to Italy, where he was wounded,
and returned to Canada a few days before the
war ended. In 1946, he married Margaret (nee
Henschel), and together they started a poultry
farm in Pitt Meadows in 1948. They sold the farm
in 1972 and moved to a farm near Enderby, B.C.
A year later they moved to Salmon Arm, where
Ernie owned the Squire Apartment Building. In
1977, they moved to Williams Lake, but returned to
Salmon Arm in 1999. Ernie was a great raconteur
and kept family and friends spellbound recounting
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his Yukon adventures, and to a lesser extent, his
war stories. He liked to say that he heard the guns
of both world wars. But he believed that all wars
were senseless, never took part in Remembrance
Day ceremonies, never wore a poppy, and didn’t
mince words about what really happened at the
Italian ‘front’. When he received his four World War
Two service medals in the late 1950s in the mail
in a plain brown cardboard box from the Canadian
government, he gave them to his young sons to
play with and they were soon lost. Ernie was a
builder. Whether it was constructing the family
cabin near Westwold, cabins in the Yukon, houses
and barns in Pitt Meadows, and his many concrete
projects, Ernie always seemed to have a hammer,
saw or trowel in his hands in his younger days.
He is survived by Margaret, his wife of 64 years,
four children: James (Freya), Armstrong; Donald
(Gemma), Kamloops; Tom, Winnipeg; and June
Taylor, Vancouver; grandchildren: Josh, William,
Natalie, Curtis, Emily, Nicholas, Casey, and Marcella;
two great grandchildren: Tyra and Nevaro, and
eleven nieces and nephews. He was predeceased
by his father August, and his mother Hulda. He is
predeceased by his sisters Helene and Ella, and his
brother Art. He is survived by his brothers Harry of
Victoria, Paul (Myrtle) of Chilliwack, and William
(Betty) of Kelowna.
BEAUREGARD, Joseph. May 13th, 2012. It is with
great sadness we announce the passing
of Sgt. Joseph Daniel Beauregard on
Sunday, May 13th, 2012. He is survived
by his mother, sister, brothers and
daughter. Sgt Bearegard served with
the Eddies in the 80s before going to
the Regualr Force, RCAF.