Wednesday 22 June 2011

Thomas Clive Atkinson

T. C. Atkinson, barrister and police magistrate, New Westminster, defended in the Slumach case. Click on the picture to read his obituary. The cutting is from the Victoria Colonist of 15 July 1897.
His brother-in-law, Frederick Robertson Glover was editor of the Columbian and City Clerk in New Westminster. After Thomas Atkinson Esq. died in 1897, his wife of ten years Mary Atkinson (Ellard) went to live with her sister Ada Glover and brother-inlaw Fredrick Glover who resided in New Westminster. (1901 census). The 1911 census shows that Fredrick and Ada had moved to Vancouver and he worked as a Manager for the railway and resided in Hastings Park. Mary never remarried and died in 1945 in Vancouver. (Information courtesy Ms. Atkinson) 

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