Force: Royal Canadian Army Medial Corps (WW I), Army (WW II)
Born in 1898 in Killarney MB, Reg was the third of 7 children of George and Ida (Proctor) Forster. His father was in the North West Mounted Police in Manitoba. One of the earliest settlers in La Glace area, was Reg’s uncle, Jack Proctor. Reg served overseas in the First World War as an orderly with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. After the war he met and married Hazel in Manitoba, where he worked as a barber in Killarney, and their first child, Vivian, was born. In 1924 the family moved to Tompkins SK, where two more children were born: Dorothy and Kenneth. For a year the family lived in Lacombe, where again Reg was a barber. Embarking on a great adventure, they headed out in 1937 to the Peace Country, to stay at the farm of Jack Proctor . Hazel was not impressed with the crude and unkempt log cabin, neglected by Jack, but made the best of it, by adding a granary to make a kitchen. They were able to purchase the home quarter land, SW 34-73-8-W6, and another quarter NE 34-73-8, about 2 ½ miles from La Glace. The children attended school, while Reg and Hazel attended to the farm. The youngest child, Marilynne, was born in Sexsmith at Johanna’s in 1943. The family moved to Grande Prairie where Reg signed up for the army and did barbering. Transferred to Calgary in 1944, they lived there until 1968. By this time children were married. Back in the Peace Country, Reg and Hazel moved to the town of Peace River, where Reg had to live in the nursing home, and Hazel moved in with their daughter Dorothy and her husband. Reg died in August 1970 in Peace River, and Hazel moved to Victoria BC.
Source: La Glace Yesterday and Today pp. 279-281 (family photo), p. 313 name only