Registration Number: 1972-09-014042----BC Archives Mfilm Number: B13320
GSU Mfilm Number: 2050016
Event Date/Place (YYYY-MM-DD): 1972-10-14/VANCOUVER
Age at Death: 78
Person: REGINALD HIBBERT TUPPER
Vital Stat Image: 004479328_01353.jpg
*Widowed, a barrister & solicitor by trade, a resident of Marguerite Street in Vancouver, he died in Kensington Private Hospital in Vancouver.
*His son, David Wilson Tupper of Marguerite Street, was the informant. Reginald Hibbert Tupper was laid to rest on 18 Oct 1972.
--Reginald Hibbert Tupper was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 25 Oct 1893. He attended naval colleges and gained the rank of Midshipman in the Royal Navy; he served and was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War (he gained the rank of Major in the 2nd Reserve Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada).
--On 27 Sept 1916, in Vancouver, he married Isobel Marion Wilson [she was born in Vancouver on 14 Aug 1891; her father was David Henry Wilson, a physician and politician who lived at 1966 Haro Street from 1911 to 1926 and her mother was Annie Elizabeth Armstrong.]
--Reginald later became a well-known lawyer in Vancouver, serving on the boards of several corporations. For a time, there were rumors that he would enter federal politics, possibly in Nova Scotia. He later did become a candidate in North Vancouver in the 1940 federal election, but he was unsuccessful. He was a bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1939 to 1962, and the treasurer of the law society in 1950 and 1951. In the mid-1950s, he was the head of a provincial inquiry into police corruption in Vancouver.
--His wife, Isobel, died in Vancouver on 10 April 1969. She was laid to rest in Ocean View Burial Park in Burnaby, British Columbia.
--Reginald and Isobel had two sons: Charles Gordon Hibbert ('Gordon') Tupper (1918- 1991) and David Wilson Hibbert Tupper (1921-1999).
Registration Number: 1972-09-014042----BC Archives Mfilm Number: B13320
GSU Mfilm Number: 2050016
Event Date/Place (YYYY-MM-DD): 1972-10-14/VANCOUVER
Age at Death: 78
Person: REGINALD HIBBERT TUPPER
Vital Stat Image: 004479328_01353.jpg
*Widowed, a barrister & solicitor by trade, a resident of Marguerite Street in Vancouver, he died in Kensington Private Hospital in Vancouver.
*His son, David Wilson Tupper of Marguerite Street, was the informant. Reginald Hibbert Tupper was laid to rest on 18 Oct 1972.
--Reginald Hibbert Tupper was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on 25 Oct 1893. He attended naval colleges and gained the rank of Midshipman in the Royal Navy; he served and was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres during the First World War (he gained the rank of Major in the 2nd Reserve Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada).
--On 27 Sept 1916, in Vancouver, he married Isobel Marion Wilson [she was born in Vancouver on 14 Aug 1891; her father was David Henry Wilson, a physician and politician who lived at 1966 Haro Street from 1911 to 1926 and her mother was Annie Elizabeth Armstrong.]
--Reginald later became a well-known lawyer in Vancouver, serving on the boards of several corporations. For a time, there were rumors that he would enter federal politics, possibly in Nova Scotia. He later did become a candidate in North Vancouver in the 1940 federal election, but he was unsuccessful. He was a bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1939 to 1962, and the treasurer of the law society in 1950 and 1951. In the mid-1950s, he was the head of a provincial inquiry into police corruption in Vancouver.
--His wife, Isobel, died in Vancouver on 10 April 1969. She was laid to rest in Ocean View Burial Park in Burnaby, British Columbia.
--Reginald and Isobel had two sons: Charles Gordon Hibbert ('Gordon') Tupper (1918- 1991) and David Wilson Hibbert Tupper (1921-1999).
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