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Major (Ret'd) Reginald Hibbert “Reggie” Tupper

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Major (Ret'd) Reginald Hibbert “Reggie” Tupper Veteran

Birth
Ottawa, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death
14 Oct 1972 (aged 78)
Vancouver, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Burial
Burnaby, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada GPS-Latitude: 49.2214655, Longitude: -123.0139497
Memorial ID
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Royal British Columbia Museum Archives death record-
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).
Royal British Columbia Museum Archives death record-
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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  • Created by: SJB Hearn
  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213068792/reginald_hibbert-tupper: accessed ), memorial page for Major (Ret'd) Reginald Hibbert “Reggie” Tupper (25 Oct 1893–14 Oct 1972), Find a Grave Memorial ID 213068792, citing Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; Maintained by SJB Hearn (contributor 46864594).