DeBeck, Dorothy Mary

Dorothy Mary DeBeck was a resident of Parkhurst, the former logging town on the North East end of Green Lake in Whistler, and later Squamish. She was born on July 22, 1912 in Vancouver. She became engaged to Denis DeBeck in the summer of 1937 while living at Parkhurst (Denis was a logger there) and the couple married in 1938. In 1938, the DeBecks left Parkhurst and, in 1940, Denis and his partner John Brunzen opened their own small portable mill at 43.5 Mile on the PGE Railway. This was also the year Denis and Dorothy had their first daughter, Wilma. Their second, Barbara May, came after they moved the mill to 48.8 Mile. The family moved to Squamish in 1945, where Denis began logging near Alice Lake. After spending her later years in Hilltop House, she passed away on September 23, 2001 in Squamish.

Parkhurst
Whistler
Squamish

RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.

Catalogued January 2022.

1) Archival material
2) https://blog.whistlermuseum.org/tag/dorothy-debeck/
3) https://squamishlibrary.digitalcollections.ca/informationobject/browse?collection=4189&subjects=300&sortDir=desc&sort=lastUpdated&view=table&sf_culture=en&topLod=0&onlyMedia=1&media=print
4) https://whistler.ica-atom.org/debeck-denis
5) https://squamishlibrary.digitalcollections.ca/uploads/r/squamish-public-library/2/2/22873/20010929_The_Chief.pdf