Forsyth, James B. “Jim”

James Forsyth was the youngest son of David Forsyth and Nancy (Bruce) Forsyth.

He was a charter member Rebekah Vermilion #24 Lodge, May 30, 1910. He was also a member of the Princeton Lodge No. 50, Knights of Pythias (1914). Installed as an officer of the International Order of Odd Fellows, No. 52. He also served on the executive committee of the Princeton Liberals (1915).

In November 1914, he played the bagpipes for a Hospital Ladies Auxiliary benefit event.

He (or his brothers, known as Forsyth Brothers), had a herd of purebred Holsteins and was selling milk in Princeton (1917). The Forsyth Brothers expanded further and put in a stage line between Princeton and the railway camps on Five Mile in May 1922.

Forsyth signed up as WWI recruit in January 1918. The Princeton Star reported in October 1918 that Private James Forsyth had been wounded in France. He returned to Princeton in March 1919. He had been wounded in his arm and leg and, in June 1919, he went to Vancouver to have treatment on his arm. He returned to Princeton shortly after.

He worked as a polling clerk for the Prohibition Act or Government Control of liquor referendum in October 1922. (Princeton: 191 for government control; 87 for prohibition). In 1921, he was appointed Princeton’s first government liquor vendor. The store was located in the portion of the A.E. Howse Co., Block that had recently been used a gent’s furnishings department. He had the lower portion of the windows painted green to offer privacy to liquor customers in 1923.

(?)Worked for Vermilion Forks Mining Co. (1920’s)(?) Perhaps this is actually his brother, John.

Donated $1 to organ fund 1931.

He was a Similkameen Star subscriber September 1931 -September 1942; 1944; 1945.