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This family started with Herbert Hinz and Rose Edgington, who got married in Toronto, Ontario on November
18, 1955. They had seven children - Darrell, Kevin, Rodney, Daphne, Cheryl, Sandra and Brian.
Herb
(Herbert) was born in Muenster, Saskatchewan to a family of seven, and Rose was born in Steveston (Richmond) B.C., to a family
of ten children. Rose was the second youngest in the family, and has outlived all of the family, while most of Herb's brothers
and sisters are still living (2002). His mother and father, and a younger brother and sister have passed away.
Being born in a farming community, Herb left home on August 3, 1948 at
the age of seventeen to start his own adventures. He worked for only approximately two years at all jobs, until the last one,
where he stayed steadily for thirty three years, and retired on a good pension.
One of the most exciting jobs he held was, while working during 1950 to 1953, for International Nickel
Company (INCO) -- Creighton Mine #3, near Sudbury, Ontario. Here he worked as a Torch Cutter, cutting metal plates up to six
inches thick with oxygen and acetylene, in underground construction sites, up to two miles underground.
He quit the mine in September1953, and took an automotive course in Toronto,
Ontario. After completion of the course he tried to get a job as a mechanic, but all employers wanted only experienced employees.
So, in November he got the most challenging job of his life working for CIL Paints in Northern Toronto, working in the paint
and varnish lab.
In the fall of 1954, while at an
outdoor dance hall called Sea Breeze on Sunnyside in Toronto near the waterfront, Herb met Rose Edgington. A year later on
November 18, 1955 they got married.
At the time
Rose was working at a place called Canadian Institute of Science and Technology, but her usual occupation was working at a
bank.
Rose's father passed away, in Richmond, B.C.
on July 24, 1956, so we quit our jobs in Toronto, and moved to Richmond to help her mother, and we lived with her for a few
months.
After having a few short jobs, Herb ended
up working at the Vancouver Main Post Office, from which he retired after 33 years on December 30, 1989.
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