Memorial

Lester Charles Card: VE6CA memorial

A memorial preserving Lester’s family, RCAF service, later work, and amateur-radio identity.

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Scope and limitations

A near-contemporary memorial is useful evidence but does not replace an original service file or birth registration.

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People connected to this source

Living relative

Carol Card

Carol connects the present family with Lester and Jean’s Card and Nelson lines.

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1919–2015

Lester Charles Card

Airman, teacher, geologist, and radio amateur: Lester’s call sign gives VE6.CA its name.

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c. 1921–2019

Jean Shirley M. Nelson Card

Jean brings the Nelson family’s Cardston story into the Card family archive.

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