Dyson, George Henry
Olave Christina (Way) Dyson
Unknown daughter born in June 21, 1923 (possibly Joan?), Olave Wendy Dyson
George Dyson was born on May 20, 1883 in Auckland, New Zealand. He married Olave Christina Way and they came to Princeton from Winnipeg in 1922. They moved into F.A. Howse’s house. Dyson died in Parksville, BC, on November 5, 1982.
Dyson was the teacher and principal of the Princeton High School in 1922 – 1926. He taught high school in one of the downstairs rooms in the old courthouse in 1924. He left shortly after the end of the 1926 school term to take a position in Salmon Arm.
World War I veteran. He was on the Princeton Golf Club executive in February 1923. And a new member of the Princeton Board of Trade in April 1923. Elected Vice President of the Ex-Servicemen’s Association of Princeton in October 1924. First President of the Grand Army of United Veterans (Princeton Branch), December 31, 1925.
WWI Veteran
Death registrations (BC Archives); Marriage registration – for Olave Wendy Dyson (BC Archives) The School on Vermilion, page 16; Similkameen Star, August 18, 1922, page 1; February 16, 1923, page 1; April 13, 1923, page 3; May 11, 1923, page 4; June 22, 1923, page 1; October 16, 1924, page 1; November 6, 1925, page 5; November 13, 1924, page 1; December 31, 1925, page 1; June 24, 1926, page 3