Crookall, James^{[1, 2]}

1887 - 1960  (72 years)

• Name	Crookall, James
  	VARIANT NAME: Jim Crookall.
  Birth	7 Nov 1887	Preston, Lancashire, Eng., UK
  Gender	Male
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1920s?-1950s?	Vancouver, BC
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1910s	Camp Taliaferro, Texas
  	World War One air force and motorcycle corps training
  Death	27 Jul 1960	Vancouver, BC
  Person ID	I864	Camera Workers | C, vol. 2, 1901-1950
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2017

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Amateur. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: According to MemoryBC.ca: James Crookall was born in Preston, Lancashire, and came to Vancouver as a child. As a young man, he joined the Union Steamship Company of B.C. He served first as a Steward, then as a Clerk and was made Secretary in 1912. During World War I he served for two years with the Royal Flying Corps. After the war he resumed his career with Union Steamships. Crookall became Secretary Comptroller and was appointed Secretary-Treasurer in 1949. He retired in 1958 only a few months before Union Steamships ceased operations in 1959. Throughout his life, James Crookall was an avid amateur photographer and an enthusiastic outdoorsman. He was an active member of the Vancouver Photographic Society and regularly exhibited his photographs in international salons. A slightly more expansive biography is available through the City of Vancouver Archives.

  
  

• Sources

  [S45] COLLECTION: BVAA. James Crookall fonds (AM640) [S644] John Belshaw, Belshaw (2014), (Vancouver Confidential, ed. by John Belshaw (Vancouver: Anvil Press, 2014)), 971.13304 VAN.