Pensions – Lighthouse Memories

Lightkeeper Retirement Homes

October 25, 2012home, ideal, keepers, lighthouse, litehouse, retirementAdult Memories, Asia, Europe, Foreign, Humour, Keepers, Lighthouses, Passport, Pensions, Philippines, Real Estate, Recreation, Stories, TravelretlkprLeave a Comment

No, this does not refer to retirement homes such as you are imagining for senior citizens. This is a fictitious tale of what I imagine a lightkeeper might look for in a home when he retires. None of these homes are actually inhabited by a lighthouse keeper, as far as I know, but they appealed to me […]

Severance Pay for Retiring Lightkeepers is Finished!

April 6, 2012lay off, lighthouse, litehouse, package, payout, pension, retirement, severance payCanada, Government, Information, Lighthouses, Pensions, UnionretlkprLeave a Comment

You all know what severance pay is do you not? Severance pay is pay (and sometimes benefits) an employee receives when he or she leaves employment. Severance pay is most typically offered for employees who are laid off or retire. Just recently the the Canadian Government, Treasury Board Branch, has forcibly modified the collective agreements of these three groups PA, […]

Howard Frazer Chamberlin Family Adventures c.1930s

January 1, 2012| Chamberlin, attack, Estevan, Japanese, letter, lighthouse, litehouse, military, navy, Nootka, submarine, WW2, WWIIAdult Memories, Childhood Memories, Children, Communication, Equipment, First Nations, Foreign, Government, History, Incidents, Information, Keepers, Light, Lighthouses, Medical Emergency, Military, News, Old Website, On The Job, Operators, Pensions, Radio, Stories, Submarines, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

– Narrated by Sharlene Macintosh with help from her cousin Zellie Chamberlin Sale (granddaughters of Howard Frazer Chamberlin, lighthouse keeper c. 1930 – 1941) My grandfather was Howard Frazer Chamberlin who was lightkeeper at a few lighthouses around Vancouver Island – Nootka , Pine Island , Quatsino , Trial Island come to mind – my Mom knows them all. His brother, Charles Benjamin […]

Life on Kains Island 1933 – 1944

December 20, 2011| Carver, boats, engines, fishing, Kains, lighthouse, litehouse, operator, Quatsino, radio, repairsAdult Memories, Childhood Memories, Children, Coast Guard, Communication, Equipment, Fishing, Foghorns, Government, Groceries & Mail, History, Incidents, Keepers, Light, Lighthouses, Medical, Old Website, On The Job, Operators, Pensions, Radio, School, Weather, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

– Roy Carver (son of C. E. Carver on Kains Island November 1933 – July 1944) Roy Carver told me he “was born at the Bancroft Nursing Home at 705 Cook Street in Victoria, BC in mid 1930s. This nursing home was set up for expectant mothers that lived in out of the way places with […]

Quarters and Rations (Q&R)

December 11, 2011cheque stub, lighthouse, litehouse, pay stub, paycheck, Q&R. quarters and rations, R&B, R&Q, rations & quarters, rent, room & boardAdult Memories, Coast Guard, Government, History, Information, Lighthouses, Military, Old Website, On The Job, PensionsretlkprLeave a Comment

Quarters and Rations (Q&R), seen on many Canadian government employee pay cheques as Q – R IN KIND is also know as Rations and Quarters (R&Q) in the Canadian military. It is a topic over which I fought against the Coast Guard bureaucracy my whole working life. I wanted it defined for the lighthouse keeper! It is […]

Porlier Pass Lighthouse 1949 – 1965

November 27, 2011lighthouse, litehouse, Porlier Pass, storiesAdult Memories, Automation, Childhood Memories, Children, Coast Guard, Communication, Construction, Equipment, Government, History, Incidents, Keepers, Lighthouses, Medical, Medical Emergency, Old Website, Pensions, Radio, Recreation, School, Stories, WomenretlkprLeave a Comment

– Denice Goudie (grandaughter of Henry Edward Brown, Senior Keeper on Porlier Pass 1949 – 1965) Please go to the Porlier Pass lighthouse website, a project of Dennice Goudie, and read the rest of her account and recollections of life at Porlier Pass and a history of her grandfather. Grandfather of this researcher Denice Goudie, Henry Edward […]

Canadian Government Pension Plans for Retiring Lighthouse Keepers

November 15, 2011cheque, CPP, lighthouse, litehouse, money, OAS, pension, PSPP, salaryGovernment, Information, Lighthouses, Old Website, On The Job, PensionsretlkprLeave a Comment

All Canadian government employees who are eligible for retirement are eligible for: The Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) Canada Pension Plan (CPP)Old Age Security (OAS) pension at age 65 You are entitled to a Public Service pension (immediate annuity), if you retire:(source) at or after age 60 with two (2) or more years of pensionable service; […]

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