Peggy Hemstreet

March 14, 2002

Peggy Hemstreet's, father, Edric Clayton, came to Sechelt from England after WW1 to work for his cousin Herbert Whitaker in his store. He met and married Florence Potts and they had four children, Margaret, known as Peggy, being the eldest. After Herbert's death in the early 1920's, Edric worked for the Union Estates General Store until 1950 when he opened his own store. Margaret grew up, played and went to school on the coast. Like most families in the 1930s, money was scarce but Peggy remembers a happy, carefree childhood with her close knit family. She worked in the Sechelt telephone office until marrying Maurice Hemstreet in 1945.