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Lester Charles Card QCWA memorial
Memorial page that connects Lester's aviation life, family details, and radio identity.
Memorial
A memorial preserving Lester’s family, RCAF service, later work, and amateur-radio identity.
How to use this source
A near-contemporary memorial is useful evidence but does not replace an original service file or birth registration.
Preserved in the archive
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Memorial page that connects Lester's aviation life, family details, and radio identity.

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Portrait image preserved alongside the QCWA memorial material for Lester.

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Second portrait image preserved with Lester's memorial collection.
Read in context
Living relative
Carol connects the present family with Lester and Jean’s Card and Nelson lines.
1919–2015
Airman, teacher, geologist, and radio amateur: Lester’s call sign gives VE6.CA its name.
c. 1921–2019
Jean brings the Nelson family’s Cardston story into the Card family archive.