My great grandfather, Richard James White, was born in St. Austell in Cornwall, England on May 3, 1888 and came to Canada as a young man in the early 1900s.
Richard was one of three children born to Richard White and Mary Ann Avery. The 1891 census shows Richard, 3, Albert, 1, Mary A, 27 and Richard White, 27, Tin Miner living in Tregrehan Mills, St. Austell.
The 1901 census shows Richard, 12, Albert J, 10, Orlando, 8, and Mary Ann, 37 living in Trenowah, Cornwall. When Richard left Cornwall and came to Canada, he initially worked in Richmond, BC on a farm and then later moved to Rossland and then New Denver, near Nelson, to work in the mines.
He married Annie Eliza (ne: Crowe) on December 13, 1911 in New Denver. Richard worked in nearby Silverton where he worked in the mines. He and Annie had two children in Silverton: Gertrude Dorothy Anne White (b. 1912), and Leonard George (b. 1917). In about 1932, the family moved to Bralorne, BC when a new mine opened.
This photo is likely taken in Bralorne in the 1930s. In mid 1940's, Richard retired and moved to Nelson and in September 1958 died there. Richard’s brothers, Albert and Orlando, also left Cornwall but settled in Butte, Montana.
