Here is the last map – for Herbert and Anna Paulin. Enjoy!
Mapping Herbert and Anna Paulin
Marriage Florence Paulin and Robert Williams, 1898
Victoria Daily Times, 20 Jan 1898
Mr Robert H Williams, of Kaslo, and Miss Marion Pauline, seventh daughter of Mr Frederick Pauline, of Oak Bay, were married at Christ Church Cathedral yesterday evening in the presence of a large number of their friends and relatives, by Rev Canon Beanlands. The bride was attended by her younger sister, Miss Nellie Pauline, and Miss Rita Gardiner, her nephew, Master Fred Pauline acting as a page. At the conclusion of the ceremony the young couple proceeded to the residence of Mr CF Gardiner, Labouchere street, where a reception was held. Mr and Mrs Williams left this morning on a tour through the Sound cities, from whence they will proceed to Kaslo, where they will reside in future.
Where we lived, George Rutherford, Victoria, 1915
According to his attestation papers, George Frederick Andrew Rutherford lived here with his wife Beatrice Friar and their two children, when he signed up for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in December 1915. The house on the site appears to date from that period – so I think this is the same building.
George was the son of Louise Paulin and Robert Rutherford. He moved to Canada around 1911.
Christmas 1960
Times Colonist, 23 Dec 1960
The Family of Mr and Mrs OW Pauline will gather at their Foul Bay Road home for the Christmas holidays. Coming from Vancouver are their son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs T Irvine Cormack, and their twin sons. Also joining the family party will be Mr and Mrs Pauline’s daughter Miss Carol Pauline, Vancouver.
Concert for Mrs Miller, 1899
Victoria Daily Times, 11 July 1899
A concert is to be given in Sir William Wallace hall on Wednesday evening, 19th inst, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to assist Mrs Miller, a poor lady, to reach England, where she has relatives. Mrs Miller is partially blind and her case is an eminently deserving one. Mr WJ Hanna will take the chair at the concert and among those taking part are Mesdames Hall and Hunt, Misses Wilson and Baker, and Messrs George Burnett, Benedict Bantly, JG Brown, G Watson, H Firth, WD Kinnaird, R Wilson, R Robertson. A subscription list has been opened to aid Mrs Miller and the charitable disposed are invited to assist this truly deserving case.
Benedict Bantly, conservatory, 1906
Victoria Daily Times, 11 Oct 1906
Benedict Bantly, who recently opened a studio in the Garesche building, has determined to introduce a little innovation into his methods of teaching here. At the request of a number of friends he has decided to commence class tuition along the lines of the Liepzig and other large European conservatories. This system has served special advantages in that a pupil has the opportunity of benefiting by the instruction given to others in the same class and gains confidence by playing before them. Other advantages are also claimed for this system.
Mapping Nellie Paulin
Here is the map for Nellie Paulin, who was first married to Daniel Louis Hickey in 1906, then Benjamin Bantley in 1950. She lived in Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle and San Mateo.
Music Sounds Note in life of La Puentean, Benedict Bantly, 1957
Los Angeles Times, 27 January 1957
Music Sounds Note in Life of La Puentean
La Puente – Rooms filled with instruments, compositions, pictures of composers and musicians reflect the musical career of one of the city’s most colorful personalities, Benedict Bantly.
The house at 15802 E Temple Street has become so crowded with his collection that Bantly is remodelling the attic to serve as an extra music room.
Of all his possessions, the 79 year-old musician is proudest of a framed diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music at Leipzig, Germany, where he studied from 1902 to 1906.
Started in Canada
Bantly’s musical training began more than 70 years ago when he was a boy in Victoria, British Columbia. He and his father, brother and a sister played at dancing clubs in Victoria.
At one performance, Bantly, who was also a photographer, arrived with his violin case, only to discover that instead of the instrument he had a camera inside.
The La Puentean met his first wife while studying in Germany. She was a vocalist and he wrote many compositions for her.
“This was a particularly mushy one,” he chuckled, thumbing through one of the many scores that fill a bookcase.
Played for Actors
During the early days of silent motion pictures, Bantly played mood music for such actors as Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin.
In 1922 Bantly joined the faculty of La Puente High School and was head of the music department there for 30 years. One of his special productions was the Ben Sing Laundry act put on for the annual vaudeville.
For this number he used bamboo rakes as music stands and several authentic Chinese instruments. He still has a Chinese violin and a botak, or mandolin, from Malaya.
Has Dozen Violins
Of more than a dozen violins, his favorite is a model of an Amati which he played in the Leipzig Gewandhaus where Mendelssohn first conducted.
Among his smaller instruments is a 100-year-old yellow clarinet made of box wood, with only seven keys, which his father brought from Germany. He has three others of the Albert system that date from the 80s, a mandola, similar to the present viola, and old metronomes.
Of his five pianos the oldest is a three and one-half octave piano built in Paris in 1809. Beside a modern electric organ, which he said shocked him at first because it sounded synthetic, he has an 1875 Reed Organ.
Bantly was concertmaster for Harold Scott’s San Gabriel Valley Symphony Orchestra for 10 years. He organized the Rotary Orchestral Club in Victoria, and returns there for a visit each year.
Practiced Diligently
Proving that there is no substitute for practice, Bantly produced a record of his practice week in his early days which showed a total of 45 hours spent on the piano, organ or violin.
Bantly, whose philosophy is “if you can’t laugh it off, it’s too bad,” believes that the best method for staying young is to keep busy.
He practices what he preaches. He still teaches music and has organized a local Rotary music group.
The Amazing Paulin(e) Family 