21 May 1959 John Colin Livingstone
Pioneer City Span Worker Dead at 79
Funeral service will be held Monday for a pioneer Vancouver construction worker who helped build the old Granville and Cambie bridges and the Georgia Viaduct. John Colin Livingstone, 79, who died Thursday at McKay Private Hospital, was born in Cape George, Nova Scotia, in 1880, and came to Vancouver in 1900. He is survived by two sons, Stanley and Andrew of Vancouver; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Murphy, Portland, Maine, and Mrs Alberta Rickards, New York; and four grandchildren. His wife Margaret died in 1955. *Buried Forest Law Cemetery, Burnaby, B.C.*
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The death occurred on May 21 in McKay Private Hospital, South Burnaby, B.C., of John Colin Livingston, 79, after a lengthy illness. The youngest son of John and Rachel (Taylor) Livingston, he was born at Livingston’s Cove, Antigonish County and left Nova Scotia in 1899 and joined a C.P.R. bridge crew at Crow’s Nest Pass, B.C., working for an old boyhood friend, the late Dan McEachern of Cape George. In 1902 he became a C.P.R. brakeman on the Revelstoke Field and Rogers Pass division but because of an injury received on a trip back home in 1903 he returned to bridge and wharf construction in the Kootenay and Okanagan area. Coming to Vancouver in 1907, he worked on some of the city’s main arterial viaducts and bridges and when he became a foreman he worked on the structure crossing the Thompson and Fraser rivers when Canada’s second trans-continental railway, the C.N.R. was being extended to the coast in 1912. He and his wife, the former Margaret MacMillan of Upper South River whom he married in 1909, settled in the area known as South Vancouver which was sparsely settled and along with other young couples literally felled the forest to build their home. Funeral services were held May 25 in Bethel Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Ben Cording of Bethel Baptist and the Rev. Duncan Chalmers of Beason’s Field United Church. Interment was in the Eventide section of Forest Lawn Cemetery, Burnaby. IN recognition of Mr. Livingston’s talents as a piper, William Scott played two laments at the graveside. Surviving are two sons Andrew and Stanley, four grandchildren and a daughter-in-law, Marie; also two sisters, Mrs A. Richards, in Jackson Heights, N.Y., and Mrs Agnes Murphy, Portland, Maine and several nieces and nephews among whom is Mrs. A.B Pushie of New Glasgow. Mrs. Livingston died in November, 1955. Pallbearers were John Hector MacDoanld (Cape George), Alex MacDonald (Upper South River), Sam Kennedy (Fairmont-Hallowell Grant), Colin MacDonald (Arisaig), William Cameron and John Wright.