Sampson

The house in Oak Bay Francis M. Rattenbury built for the Sampsons

William Curtis Sampson (4 November 1848  - 23 March 1934) married his first wife Emma Munro (6 November 1846 – 16 October 1902) in England in December 1876. 

They settled in Whonnock ca. 1886 on their land on the Ruskin side of the Reserve.  Sampson was the area’s first Justice of the Peace. 

In July 1893 Sampson took a position with the Nakusp & Slocan Railway. The Victoria Colonist of 7 April 1894 shows his name as secretary of The Inland Construction and Development Company. In his absence took care of the Whonnock lands until they sold their property to the Gilchrist brothers in 1895.

The Canada Census of 1901 shows the couple in Vancouver but later that year they moved to Esquimalt where Sampson started an accounting firm. In the fall of 1902 Emma died of cancer. 

On 14 April 1909, married Harriet Susan Pemberton (13 May 1871 – 15 May 1949)

Sampson retired from his business in 1921.