Camera Workers, 1858-1950

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Michelin, Auguste Paul[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Male 1895 - 1955  (59 years)


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  • Name Michelin, Auguste Paul 
    • VARIANT NAME: Michelin, Paul A.
    Birth 9 Nov 1895  London, Eng., UK Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6] 
    Gender Male 
    Marriage 19 Apr 1917  Vancouver, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Bride: Ethel Mae Beatrice Scane 
    Age: 22 
    Marriage 3 Mar 1924  Nanaimo, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Bride: Ursula Dobeson 
    • He was divorced when he remarried in 1924.
    Business Address/Year 1931  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Address:
    635 1/2 Fort St., no. 3 (Castle Building)
    Photo-Art Galleries
    Victoria, BC
    Canada 
    Marriage 10 Aug 1940  Victoria, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Bride: Ellen Elizabeth Barton 
    Death 11 Jan 1955  Duncan, BC Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Association Photo-Art Galleries (Relationship: Photographer; Owner) 
    Person ID I2363  Camera Workers | M, vol. 2, 1901-1950
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2024 

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Commercial.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Born to an Italian father and English mother, he lived in 1931 with his sister's family in Victoria. She was married to automobile dealer Thomas H. Plimley. He had immigrated to Canada in Jun 1910, arriving in Quebec City on the Tunisian. He married in 1917, at which time his occupation was a musician. Following his divorce he remarried in 1924 and gave his occupation as a musician. By the time of his third marriage in 1940 his occupation was a soldier and he lived at the Bay Street Armouries in Victoria.
      Michelin owned and operated the Photo-Art Galleries in 1931.
      His death registration records indicates he had worked as an organist and musician until 1954 and that he had lived in Cobble Hill, BC, for 10 years or since the end of World War Two.

  • Sources 
    1. [S667] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch.org (Web site).
      Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, Quebec, QC, Jun 1910, Tunisian

    2. [S763] WRI30, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1930), 1836.
      Victoria: "Michelin Paul A org Capitol Thea h 912 Bank"

    3. [S1208] Census of Canada 1931.
      Province of BC, Electoral District 239 Victoria, Enumeration sub-district no. 6 in municipality of Victoria City, p. 11, line 5

    4. [S764] WRI31, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1931), 1832.
      Victoria: "Michelin Paul A prop Photo-Art Galleries h 912 Bank"

    5. [S765] WRI32, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1932).
      Victoria: not listed

    6. [S652] BVIPA death registration index.
      Registration no. 1955-09-001255 (microfilm B13222); digital facsimile URL (accessed 23 Jan 2024): https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/e5cc3a99-3c76-4a58-ad92-7d23a20d6c54

    7. [S670] BVIPA marriage registration.
      Registration no. 1917-09-087562 (microfilm B11380); digital facsimile URL (accessed 23 Jan 2024): https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/cc076780-eb4b-4a04-8dc9-4ce0e42af354

    8. [S670] BVIPA marriage registration.
      Registration no. 1924-09-277131 (microfilm B13747); digital facsimile URL (accessed 23 Jan 2024): https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/65d67317-6586-4cdc-a3e2-0ea57624f0af

    9. [S764] WRI31, (Vancouver: Wrigley Directories, 1931), 1849.
      Victoria: "Photo-Art Galleries (P Michelin) photogs 3, 635 1/2 Fort"

    10. [S670] BVIPA marriage registration.
      Registration no. 1940-09-494338; digital facsimile URL (accessed 23 Jan 2024): https://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/180d4aa7-9895-40bd-88d7-dfeed6512fc3