McKinlay, Douglas Alexander

Doug was born at 408 Davisville Avenue in Toronto on April 22, 1928.    The VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) was in attendance.  Doug has told the story, that if a family had Metropolitan Life Insurance,  a VON was provided for the birth.  Miss Baines was the VON for the Davisville district and if the children saw Miss Baines in the area they knew she was there for a birth.

In his pre-school days, Poppa Judd would take him to the park on Mount Pleasant Avenue.   Doug would play with his friends while Poppa Judd would have a visit with his old buddies.

Doug attended Hodgson school on Davisville Avenue in Toronto along with his siblings, Muriel and Frank.

Doug's first full time job was Simpsons in the mail order advertising department. He went to Northern Vocational School at night and continued to work at Simpsons for almost 10 years.

He married Lorena Mae Wright in 1950.  They had two children, Andrew Franklin born in 1953 and Jane Louise born in 1957.

Doug took a job in Strathcona Ontario in 1952 with the Strathcona Paper Mill. He later moved back to the Toronto area and then to the Victoria, British Columbia area where he worked for the University of Victoria at Dunsmuir Lodge. In his retirement he lives in Saanichton, B.C.

Lorena Mae (Wright) McKinlay died peacefully in her sleep on February 16, 2016.
Douglas Alexander McKinlay died in Saanich Peninsula Hospital, Saanichton, B.C. on
February 4, 2017 with his daughter Jane at his side.

Obituary - Douglas Alexander McKinlay