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Catherine Ann McGillivray married Allen Kennedy Sharp on January 28, 1897. Their children were Julia, Clare, Laureen, Wilford, Helen and Robert. Julia was born in Port Hammond (now Maple Ridge), B.C. on November 2, 1897 and died in Burnaby August 3, 1994. A. K. Sharp was a Methodist preacher in southern British Columbia who was drawn to the province by an invitation from a Reverend T. W. Hall in Kamloops. Allen took up the offer and arrived by train in Kamloops in 1891 where he bought a horse that took him through the Okanagan Valley as far as Keremeos. He left the Similkameen on horse back in 1893 bound for Princeton, Hope and Sumas where he took up a new post. He moved to Hammond in the Lower Fraser River Valley in 1895, Langley in 1899, Trout Lake in 1902, Ashcroft in 1904, and Langley in 1906. In 1910, A. K. Sharp left the ministry and returned to Caistorville, Ontario and was superannuated in 1925. Allen Kennedy Sharp died May 23, 1948 at Hamilton, Ontario and Catherine Ann Sharp died June 26, 1952 in Caistorville, Ontario.

Allen Kennedy Sharp married Catherine Ann McGillivray on January 28, 1897. Their children were Julia, Clare, Laureen, Wilford, Helen and Robert. Julia was born in Port Hammond (now Maple Ridge), B.C. on November 2, 1897 and died in Burnaby August 3, 1994. A. K. Sharp was a Methodist preacher in southern British Columbia who was drawn to the province by an invitation from a Reverend T. W. Hall in Kamloops. Allen took up the offer and arrived by train in Kamloops in 1891 where he bought a horse that took him through the Okanagan Valley as far as Keremeos. He left the Similkameen on horse back in 1893 bound for Princeton, Hope and Sumas where he took up a new post. He moved to Hammond in the Lower Fraser River Valley in 1895, Langley in 1899, Trout Lake in 1902, Ashcroft in 1904, and Langley in 1906. In 1910, A. K. Sharp left the ministry and returned to Caistorville, Ontario and was superannuated in 1925. Allen Kennedy Sharp died May 23, 1948 at Hamilton, Ontario and Catherine Ann Sharp died June 26, 1952 in Caistorville, Ontario.

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