Mackenzie, Lovina/Louvina Mina (Tree/Huston)
(1) John Leonard Huston (c.1876-1914)
(2) Alexander C. Mackenzie (c.1856-1942)
Daughter: Ida May (Huston) Tupper (c.1906- )
Lovina/Louvina Tree was born around 1879 in Woodstock, Ontario. She was the daughter of Horace Tree and Louvina (Caister) Tree. She married John Leonard “Len” Huston and, after he died (on December 23, 1914), she remarried. She married Alexander C. Mackenzie, a mine foreman at Copper Mountain, BC, at the house of Charles Willarson in Princeton, BC, on July 12, 1920. At the time of her marriage to Alexander Mackenzie, she was working as a milliner. She died in Vancouver, BC, after a lengthy illness on July 6, 1927. She is buried in the Princeton Cemetery.
Lovina Tree came to Princeton around 1907. She grew up in Casselton, North Dakota, USA. She was the sister of Branch (Tree) Willarson.
She was the proprietor of the Bee Hive Store, a women and children’s clothing store which opened in October 1915. She sold the business at some point before 1923.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Lodge #34, the Ladies’ Aid of the United Church and the Ladies’ Hospital Auxiliary (1911). She transferred to Rebekah Lodge, Vermilion #24 on March 25, 1923.
Death registration (BC Archives); Marriage registration (BC Archives); Similkameen Star, October 29, 1915, page 1; Princeton Star, December 12, 1923, page 1; July 7, 1927, page 1 (obituary)