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streetcar and then walk all the
way back to his home in West
Vancouver.

Chuck. with his school
days behind him, ser off for
his first job. He rade the
freight train to the Okanagan:
and found work in the
orchards. Since this employ-
ment was seasonal, when it
was finished Chuck returned
home.

“Pwas in the Okanagan
when World War EH was
declared,” says Chuck, whose
next adventure was working

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as a scaman aboard the CPR
boats to Alaska.

Things were going well.
Then all young men aged 21
were called for a month of
army training at Vernon,
B.C., and Chuck had to
leave his job and go.

Completing his army
training, Chuck returned
home. This time, he took a
pipe fitter’s course and
signed on as a pipe fitter’s
helper at Burrard Drydock
and stayed there until
October “41.

On Oct. 24 in 1941,
Chuck joined the Royal
Canadian Air Force, and
trained for one year as an air-
plane mechanic at St.
Thomas, Ontario. B.: was
then posted to Duznville,
Ontario prior to going over-
seas. However, Chuck just
couldn't go overseas before
attend:ng to some extremely
important business involving,
matters of the heart.

So in November 1942, ke
came home on leave for tour
days and married Doris,
belore going overseas for
three years. .

Chuck worked on various
makes of airplanes, but most-
ly Wellingtons, Lancasters,
and Halifax bomber planes.

“I vividly remember
returning home to Canada
after the war, on the Oucen
Elizabeth, along with a lot of

Canadian Army men. As the
ship came into Halifax har-
bour, boats were lined up on
either side of the harbour to
welcome the men home.
This reception really
impressed the English sea-
men and myself [ will never
forget it.”

With the war over, Chuck
and Doris bought the family
home from her parents, who
in turn purchased a smaller
home in North Vancouver.

Doris quit working at the
dress shop to become a
homemaker and a mother.
Chuck took a job as a fine-
man with Peterson Electric
in Vancouver for the next six
years. But in October of “52
he transferred to B.C.
Electric (naw BC Hydro) in
North Vancouver and
worked as a lineman for 31
years before retiring in ‘82.

Chuck has attended the
Air Force 426 Squadron
reunions, held every tvo
years in different parts of
Canada and England.

The Forrest family contin-
ues to prow, and being a
tightly knit family, Chuck
and Doris are always busy
They have four children —

two sons and twin daughters -

—— 14 grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren, two
being identical wins.

An 1991, they held a fam-
ily picnic at the ofd Cedar

Mill site by the creek.

“We had HI family mem-
bers there and what a won-
derful outing it was. A son-
in-law built a rickshaw with
wheels and used pipes for
rails so it could be lifted.
Without the rickshaw, I
could not have attended the
picnic, due to my arthritis,”
savs Doris. ft was the first
time she nad returned to the
mill site since it was flooded
in 1980.

All of his fife Chuck has
been involved with skiing,
basketball and soccer. He still
enjoys skiing on Grouse
Mountain, and gardening.
During her school vears,
Doris enjoyed playing bas-
ketball, grass hockey and
five-pin bowling. And, of
course, through the years she
did a lor of sewing for the
family. '

“Our advice to the young © -

is to be honest throughout

your life,” says Chuck. These _

roller-rink sweethearts are

still living their own advice as

they continue making mem-

ories along life's pathway.:

Congratulations to Chuck

and Doris on your upcoming ~

58th wedding anniversary. .
Vikki Finkbeiner is a

North Vancouver writer. If

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t/o North Shore News." S

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