Stanley James Davies, the elder of two sons of Richard Davies and Alida May James, was raised on a farm in the Portage Plains area of Manitoba near Sidney. In 1912, after finishing high school, Stanley moved to Edmonton, AB and attended Normal School there. For two years he was both teacher and administrator. He was particularly interested in the subjects of physics and chemistry.
Davies had his first brush with oil and gas in the summer of 1914, the year of the famous Dingman well strike at Turner Valley in south-west AB. A struggling university student, he participated in a geological survey of the valley that summer. In subsequent years he came to know the oil and gas areas of Alberta as well as those from Trinidad to Mexico and Texas to Romania.
With World War I in progress, he joined the 51st (Edmonton) Battalion in 1915 but after arriving in France the next year he was transferred to the 49th (Edmonton) Battalion as company commander. At one point Davies was reprimanded for taking the young Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) to an area heavily shelled by the Germans. As Commander Davies said "I don't have any orders not to take royalty to the front line". Obviously the prince was happy to be able to break through royal red tape.
Before his discharge in early 1919, Lieut. Colonel Davies applied for one of the 500 army scholarships to a British university. In the fall of that year he enrolled at the Royal School of Mines. He graduated with an honours degree in geology.
In 1921, he returned home to Canada with his wife and two young sons and was then off to California to work for the Kern Oil Company fields in Bakersfield. A two-year stint in Trinidad as assistant to the manager ended in a bad bout of malaria but recovery followed. Big wildcat strikes in Texas in 1923 resulted in his transfer to Dallas. A few months later he was rushed to Romania as assistant manager at a big oil field that his company was developing. He ended his employment with Kern Oil in 1924 and returned to Canada and his family who had remained there.
In the fall of 1924 he returned to teaching, this time at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. The following year he was appoint as a petroleum engineer for the province. In 1926 he began consulting work on his own and became a spokesman for Calgary consumers in their gas bill complaints and rate increases.
Lt. Col. Davies was always active in the Canadian militia during peace-time. So with the outbreak of World War II, he felt that duty called. in 1940 he was sent overseas on a staff course, arriving in Liverpool on the morning that the German bombers raided the city. In the spring of 1041 he was seriously injured in a bad motorcycle accident. Due for a medical discharge back to Canada, he made a good enough recovery and was able to take the post of chief instructor at the engineer training centre at Dundurn, Saskatchewan.
In the spring of 1942, he was in charge of two trainloads of troops and two trainloads of materials which pulled out of Chilliwack, BC. The materials were dumped on a stump-strewn field. On this field sprang up the Royal Military School for Engineers. Lieut.Col. Davies served as commandant of the area until 1944. Due to poor health at the time, he received a medical discharge.
Latere he returned to his consulting practice and also returned being managing director of his Turner Valley Gas Co. Ltd.
Now in his fifties, research consumed more and more of his time and he applied for patents for some of his findings. He was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Honorary Member of the Alberta Association of Petroleum Geologists, Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta.
Lieut. Colonel S.J. Davies' credentials = M.C. with bar, O.B.E., P.E.
In 1918, Lt.Col. Davies received a month's leave for two years service at the front line so he went off to England. He met Alice May Drader, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a short courtship, they were married on July 23,1918 in Edmonton, in the borough of Enfield, a suburb in north London. The first two of their seven children were born in England before their departure for Canada in March 1921. The other five children were born in Alberta.
Children:
(1) Henry Richard James "Hank" Davies (May 5,1919-Jan.25,1984) married Joanna Gibbens Lowrie. They had two sons and two daughters and lived near Fort Vermilion, AB.
(2) Derec Faye Vaughn Davies (Oct.14,1920-
Jan.21,1983) died in Sydney, Australia.
He was married first to Joy Flora Neal
with whom he had a daughter; and married
second to Jennifer Brown with whom he
had three children.
(3) Malvern Leslie Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-Sept.24,2006) married
Isabel Frances Copp Dixon. They had
two children.
(4) Dorothy Maureen Mary Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-July 17,1982) married
James Alexander Hooton. They had three
children.
(5) Stanley James Davies Jr.
(Sept.3,1926-July 22,1997) married
Mrs. Jean Elizabeth Chapman.
No children.
(6) Charles Quentin Davies
(Dec.13,1930-Aug.18,2001) married
Lois Caroline Goodison. They had
three sons and two daughters.
(7) John Eugene "Jed" Davies (b.Apr.15,1934)
graduated from UBC, then moved to San
Francisco where he was employed as chemist
for Skasol, a industrial water treatment
company. He became Chief Operating Officer and co-owner before retiring in 1997 after 31 years and with 50 percent of Skasol stock.
Jed's spouse and partner, since July 1,1957, has been Merle E. Adams.
Davies had his first brush with oil and gas in the summer of 1914, the year of the famous Dingman well strike at Turner Valley in south-west AB. A struggling university student, he participated in a geological survey of the valley that summer. In subsequent years he came to know the oil and gas areas of Alberta as well as those from Trinidad to Mexico and Texas to Romania.
With World War I in progress, he joined the 51st (Edmonton) Battalion in 1915 but after arriving in France the next year he was transferred to the 49th (Edmonton) Battalion as company commander. At one point Davies was reprimanded for taking the young Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) to an area heavily shelled by the Germans. As Commander Davies said "I don't have any orders not to take royalty to the front line". Obviously the prince was happy to be able to break through royal red tape.
Before his discharge in early 1919, Lieut. Colonel Davies applied for one of the 500 army scholarships to a British university. In the fall of that year he enrolled at the Royal School of Mines. He graduated with an honours degree in geology.
In 1921, he returned home to Canada with his wife and two young sons and was then off to California to work for the Kern Oil Company fields in Bakersfield. A two-year stint in Trinidad as assistant to the manager ended in a bad bout of malaria but recovery followed. Big wildcat strikes in Texas in 1923 resulted in his transfer to Dallas. A few months later he was rushed to Romania as assistant manager at a big oil field that his company was developing. He ended his employment with Kern Oil in 1924 and returned to Canada and his family who had remained there.
In the fall of 1924 he returned to teaching, this time at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. The following year he was appoint as a petroleum engineer for the province. In 1926 he began consulting work on his own and became a spokesman for Calgary consumers in their gas bill complaints and rate increases.
Lt. Col. Davies was always active in the Canadian militia during peace-time. So with the outbreak of World War II, he felt that duty called. in 1940 he was sent overseas on a staff course, arriving in Liverpool on the morning that the German bombers raided the city. In the spring of 1041 he was seriously injured in a bad motorcycle accident. Due for a medical discharge back to Canada, he made a good enough recovery and was able to take the post of chief instructor at the engineer training centre at Dundurn, Saskatchewan.
In the spring of 1942, he was in charge of two trainloads of troops and two trainloads of materials which pulled out of Chilliwack, BC. The materials were dumped on a stump-strewn field. On this field sprang up the Royal Military School for Engineers. Lieut.Col. Davies served as commandant of the area until 1944. Due to poor health at the time, he received a medical discharge.
Latere he returned to his consulting practice and also returned being managing director of his Turner Valley Gas Co. Ltd.
Now in his fifties, research consumed more and more of his time and he applied for patents for some of his findings. He was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Honorary Member of the Alberta Association of Petroleum Geologists, Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta.
Lieut. Colonel S.J. Davies' credentials = M.C. with bar, O.B.E., P.E.
In 1918, Lt.Col. Davies received a month's leave for two years service at the front line so he went off to England. He met Alice May Drader, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a short courtship, they were married on July 23,1918 in Edmonton, in the borough of Enfield, a suburb in north London. The first two of their seven children were born in England before their departure for Canada in March 1921. The other five children were born in Alberta.
Children:
(1) Henry Richard James "Hank" Davies (May 5,1919-Jan.25,1984) married Joanna Gibbens Lowrie. They had two sons and two daughters and lived near Fort Vermilion, AB.
(2) Derec Faye Vaughn Davies (Oct.14,1920-
Jan.21,1983) died in Sydney, Australia.
He was married first to Joy Flora Neal
with whom he had a daughter; and married
second to Jennifer Brown with whom he
had three children.
(3) Malvern Leslie Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-Sept.24,2006) married
Isabel Frances Copp Dixon. They had
two children.
(4) Dorothy Maureen Mary Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-July 17,1982) married
James Alexander Hooton. They had three
children.
(5) Stanley James Davies Jr.
(Sept.3,1926-July 22,1997) married
Mrs. Jean Elizabeth Chapman.
No children.
(6) Charles Quentin Davies
(Dec.13,1930-Aug.18,2001) married
Lois Caroline Goodison. They had
three sons and two daughters.
(7) John Eugene "Jed" Davies (b.Apr.15,1934)
graduated from UBC, then moved to San
Francisco where he was employed as chemist
for Skasol, a industrial water treatment
company. He became Chief Operating Officer and co-owner before retiring in 1997 after 31 years and with 50 percent of Skasol stock.
Jed's spouse and partner, since July 1,1957, has been Merle E. Adams.
Stanley James Davies, the elder of two sons of Richard Davies and Alida May James, was raised on a farm in the Portage Plains area of Manitoba near Sidney. In 1912, after finishing high school, Stanley moved to Edmonton, AB and attended Normal School there. For two years he was both teacher and administrator. He was particularly interested in the subjects of physics and chemistry.
Davies had his first brush with oil and gas in the summer of 1914, the year of the famous Dingman well strike at Turner Valley in south-west AB. A struggling university student, he participated in a geological survey of the valley that summer. In subsequent years he came to know the oil and gas areas of Alberta as well as those from Trinidad to Mexico and Texas to Romania.
With World War I in progress, he joined the 51st (Edmonton) Battalion in 1915 but after arriving in France the next year he was transferred to the 49th (Edmonton) Battalion as company commander. At one point Davies was reprimanded for taking the young Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) to an area heavily shelled by the Germans. As Commander Davies said "I don't have any orders not to take royalty to the front line". Obviously the prince was happy to be able to break through royal red tape.
Before his discharge in early 1919, Lieut. Colonel Davies applied for one of the 500 army scholarships to a British university. In the fall of that year he enrolled at the Royal School of Mines. He graduated with an honours degree in geology.
In 1921, he returned home to Canada with his wife and two young sons and was then off to California to work for the Kern Oil Company fields in Bakersfield. A two-year stint in Trinidad as assistant to the manager ended in a bad bout of malaria but recovery followed. Big wildcat strikes in Texas in 1923 resulted in his transfer to Dallas. A few months later he was rushed to Romania as assistant manager at a big oil field that his company was developing. He ended his employment with Kern Oil in 1924 and returned to Canada and his family who had remained there.
In the fall of 1924 he returned to teaching, this time at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. The following year he was appoint as a petroleum engineer for the province. In 1926 he began consulting work on his own and became a spokesman for Calgary consumers in their gas bill complaints and rate increases.
Lt. Col. Davies was always active in the Canadian militia during peace-time. So with the outbreak of World War II, he felt that duty called. in 1940 he was sent overseas on a staff course, arriving in Liverpool on the morning that the German bombers raided the city. In the spring of 1041 he was seriously injured in a bad motorcycle accident. Due for a medical discharge back to Canada, he made a good enough recovery and was able to take the post of chief instructor at the engineer training centre at Dundurn, Saskatchewan.
In the spring of 1942, he was in charge of two trainloads of troops and two trainloads of materials which pulled out of Chilliwack, BC. The materials were dumped on a stump-strewn field. On this field sprang up the Royal Military School for Engineers. Lieut.Col. Davies served as commandant of the area until 1944. Due to poor health at the time, he received a medical discharge.
Latere he returned to his consulting practice and also returned being managing director of his Turner Valley Gas Co. Ltd.
Now in his fifties, research consumed more and more of his time and he applied for patents for some of his findings. He was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Honorary Member of the Alberta Association of Petroleum Geologists, Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta.
Lieut. Colonel S.J. Davies' credentials = M.C. with bar, O.B.E., P.E.
In 1918, Lt.Col. Davies received a month's leave for two years service at the front line so he went off to England. He met Alice May Drader, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a short courtship, they were married on July 23,1918 in Edmonton, in the borough of Enfield, a suburb in north London. The first two of their seven children were born in England before their departure for Canada in March 1921. The other five children were born in Alberta.
Children:
(1) Henry Richard James "Hank" Davies (May 5,1919-Jan.25,1984) married Joanna Gibbens Lowrie. They had two sons and two daughters and lived near Fort Vermilion, AB.
(2) Derec Faye Vaughn Davies (Oct.14,1920-
Jan.21,1983) died in Sydney, Australia.
He was married first to Joy Flora Neal
with whom he had a daughter; and married
second to Jennifer Brown with whom he
had three children.
(3) Malvern Leslie Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-Sept.24,2006) married
Isabel Frances Copp Dixon. They had
two children.
(4) Dorothy Maureen Mary Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-July 17,1982) married
James Alexander Hooton. They had three
children.
(5) Stanley James Davies Jr.
(Sept.3,1926-July 22,1997) married
Mrs. Jean Elizabeth Chapman.
No children.
(6) Charles Quentin Davies
(Dec.13,1930-Aug.18,2001) married
Lois Caroline Goodison. They had
three sons and two daughters.
(7) John Eugene "Jed" Davies (b.Apr.15,1934)
graduated from UBC, then moved to San
Francisco where he was employed as chemist
for Skasol, a industrial water treatment
company. He became Chief Operating Officer and co-owner before retiring in 1997 after 31 years and with 50 percent of Skasol stock.
Jed's spouse and partner, since July 1,1957, has been Merle E. Adams.
Davies had his first brush with oil and gas in the summer of 1914, the year of the famous Dingman well strike at Turner Valley in south-west AB. A struggling university student, he participated in a geological survey of the valley that summer. In subsequent years he came to know the oil and gas areas of Alberta as well as those from Trinidad to Mexico and Texas to Romania.
With World War I in progress, he joined the 51st (Edmonton) Battalion in 1915 but after arriving in France the next year he was transferred to the 49th (Edmonton) Battalion as company commander. At one point Davies was reprimanded for taking the young Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) to an area heavily shelled by the Germans. As Commander Davies said "I don't have any orders not to take royalty to the front line". Obviously the prince was happy to be able to break through royal red tape.
Before his discharge in early 1919, Lieut. Colonel Davies applied for one of the 500 army scholarships to a British university. In the fall of that year he enrolled at the Royal School of Mines. He graduated with an honours degree in geology.
In 1921, he returned home to Canada with his wife and two young sons and was then off to California to work for the Kern Oil Company fields in Bakersfield. A two-year stint in Trinidad as assistant to the manager ended in a bad bout of malaria but recovery followed. Big wildcat strikes in Texas in 1923 resulted in his transfer to Dallas. A few months later he was rushed to Romania as assistant manager at a big oil field that his company was developing. He ended his employment with Kern Oil in 1924 and returned to Canada and his family who had remained there.
In the fall of 1924 he returned to teaching, this time at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art. The following year he was appoint as a petroleum engineer for the province. In 1926 he began consulting work on his own and became a spokesman for Calgary consumers in their gas bill complaints and rate increases.
Lt. Col. Davies was always active in the Canadian militia during peace-time. So with the outbreak of World War II, he felt that duty called. in 1940 he was sent overseas on a staff course, arriving in Liverpool on the morning that the German bombers raided the city. In the spring of 1041 he was seriously injured in a bad motorcycle accident. Due for a medical discharge back to Canada, he made a good enough recovery and was able to take the post of chief instructor at the engineer training centre at Dundurn, Saskatchewan.
In the spring of 1942, he was in charge of two trainloads of troops and two trainloads of materials which pulled out of Chilliwack, BC. The materials were dumped on a stump-strewn field. On this field sprang up the Royal Military School for Engineers. Lieut.Col. Davies served as commandant of the area until 1944. Due to poor health at the time, he received a medical discharge.
Latere he returned to his consulting practice and also returned being managing director of his Turner Valley Gas Co. Ltd.
Now in his fifties, research consumed more and more of his time and he applied for patents for some of his findings. He was a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Honorary Member of the Alberta Association of Petroleum Geologists, Life Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Alberta.
Lieut. Colonel S.J. Davies' credentials = M.C. with bar, O.B.E., P.E.
In 1918, Lt.Col. Davies received a month's leave for two years service at the front line so he went off to England. He met Alice May Drader, a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. After a short courtship, they were married on July 23,1918 in Edmonton, in the borough of Enfield, a suburb in north London. The first two of their seven children were born in England before their departure for Canada in March 1921. The other five children were born in Alberta.
Children:
(1) Henry Richard James "Hank" Davies (May 5,1919-Jan.25,1984) married Joanna Gibbens Lowrie. They had two sons and two daughters and lived near Fort Vermilion, AB.
(2) Derec Faye Vaughn Davies (Oct.14,1920-
Jan.21,1983) died in Sydney, Australia.
He was married first to Joy Flora Neal
with whom he had a daughter; and married
second to Jennifer Brown with whom he
had three children.
(3) Malvern Leslie Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-Sept.24,2006) married
Isabel Frances Copp Dixon. They had
two children.
(4) Dorothy Maureen Mary Davies (twin)
(Sept.24,1921-July 17,1982) married
James Alexander Hooton. They had three
children.
(5) Stanley James Davies Jr.
(Sept.3,1926-July 22,1997) married
Mrs. Jean Elizabeth Chapman.
No children.
(6) Charles Quentin Davies
(Dec.13,1930-Aug.18,2001) married
Lois Caroline Goodison. They had
three sons and two daughters.
(7) John Eugene "Jed" Davies (b.Apr.15,1934)
graduated from UBC, then moved to San
Francisco where he was employed as chemist
for Skasol, a industrial water treatment
company. He became Chief Operating Officer and co-owner before retiring in 1997 after 31 years and with 50 percent of Skasol stock.
Jed's spouse and partner, since July 1,1957, has been Merle E. Adams.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
