Fonds F3175 - Charles Shaw fonds

Charles Aeneas Shaw, 1853-1942, was born near Toronto, Ontario and in 1871 began a surveying career with railway lines in Ontario. In 1879 he began work on the Canadian Pacific Railway line and worked across the prairies over the next few years. In 1884 he left the CPR and surveyed lines in British Columbia settling in Greenwood. During the First World War he was a Major in charge of a prison camp at Morrissey, British Columbia. He then moved to Keremeos. Shaw married Louise Towler Flesher, 1865-1946., and they had two sons, Alexander Flesher, 1896-1916, who was killed in the First World War and Norman Aeneas, 1898-1971, a millworker at Powell River.