Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
- Jardine Family
- Neiland Family
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Dates of existence
History
The Jardine-Neiland family is the amalgamated family of the Jardines and the Neilands, which came about when Thomas Neiland Sr. married Lizzie Jardine after the passing of her first husband and good friend of Neiland, John Alexander Jardine. Lizzie already had three children (Jenny Jardine, Jack Jardine, and Bob Jardine), and had one more with Neiland (Thomas Neiland Jr.). Lizzie found work keeping house for her husband’s old friend, Thomas Neiland Sr., in North Vancouver after her husband's death. Tom worked for the PGE railway as a conductor, but he had always had dreams of working for himself. He bought some land and, in May 1921, moved the whole family up to Alta Lake (known today as Whistler) to start his own logging camp. Lizzie and Tom were married on May 2, 1922. This marriage was of huge financial significance to the Jardine family, as Lizzie lost her widow’s pension of $35 a month - a significant sum at the time. At first, the family lived at the Alta Lake townsite, but in January 1922, they moved down to Thomas Neiland’s first venture at Alpha Lake, where he was harvesting cedar logs to be exported to Japan. In July 1922, the export log prices of cedar logs collapsed, and so did Thomas Neiland’s business; he had to file for bankruptcy. The family moved back to North Vancouver. Later that month, Lizzie gave birth to their son, Thomas Neiland Jr., at the age of 40. For three months, Thomas Sr. looked for work in Vancouver. Eventually persuaded by both a lack of employment and his wife’s desire to return to Alta Lake, he gained financing under her name. The family returned to their Alpha Lake cabin, and in 1923 they moved into an old loggers cabin at 34½ mile (present day Function Junction area) that was being sold by the crown, and this became the family's home for the next 20 or so years.
Places
North Vancouver
Whistler
Alta Lake
Alpha Lake
Function Junction
34 1/2 Mile
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Logging
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Internal structures/genealogy
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Catalogued December 2022.
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1) Archival material