Bootle, John Welfare “Jack”
(1) Frances Gwendolyn (Fletcher) Bootle “Wendy” (1917-1990)
(2) Jessie Buchanan (Grant) Bootle (1914-2001)
Father: John W. Bootle (1884-1977)
Mother: Charlotte (Welfare) Bootle
Brother: Harry Stubbs Bootle (1924-1999)
Sons: John Kerry Bootle “Jack” (before 1921- ); Ian Bootle
Daughter: Doreen Elizabeth Bootle “Betty” (1922-1923)
John Bootle was born on November 19, 1916 in Calgary, Alberta. He married Frances Gwendolyn Fletcher. He died on December 21, 1995 at Kelowna General Hospital.
Bootle, his wife, Wendy, and their son came to the Princeton area in September 1921. They lived at Coalmont, in the house “next to the company’s [Coalmont Collieries] office.”
The family was only in the area for about three years but Jack Bootle was an active member of the Coalmont community. He was the accountant for Coalmont Collieries, the vice-president of the newly-formed (or resurrected) Coalmont Board of Trade (1923), and an active member of the Coalmont Gun Club (1923, 1924). He was elected Incumbents’ Warden in December 1923 at the Union Church in Coalmont. He enjoyed fishing (1923) and hunting, so much so that the Princeton Star noted that he had returned for his annual blue grouse hunt in September 1928.
He advocated for a different route for the Hope-Princeton highway [source?].
Jack and Wendy’s infant daughter, “Betty,” was born in Princeton General Hospital in September 1922, and died in Vancouver in August 1923. Their son, John Bootle (another “Jack”) attended a Sunday School picnic in Tulameen in July 1923.
After several trips to Vancouver earlier in the year, Bootle moved his family away from Coalmont in November 1924 after he accepted a position with P. Burns & Co. in Vancouver.
Death registration (BC Archives); Princeton 100 Years, page 53; Princeton BC (1979) – Laurie Currie, page 54; Princeton Star, September 30, 1921, page 1; September 22, 1922, page 4; March 16, 1923, page 3; May 25, 1923, page 3; July 27, 1923, page 2; August 3, 1923, page 2; August 31, 1923, page 2; December 21, 1923, page 3; April 24, 1924, page 3; November 27, 1924; September 27, 1928, page 6