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BURIED TREASURE

Frank Paulding & First Canadian Toastmasters Club #38 (Part Three)

Henry Schowe, DTM - District 7 Historian

After the sinking of the SS Laconia, Frank Frank Paulding was invited to become general

Paulding returned to Canada where he soon secretary. The Olds YMCA was the first county
became ill. He and his family moved from YMCA organized in Alberta. C.D. Thornton,
Revelstoke to Vancouver, British Columbia in Territorial Secretary of Vancouver, and his
1917. He continued to work as a printer and at the committee asked Frank to accept the position.

Vancouver YMCA. On February 9, 1918, he was Frank completed the one-year assignment. He
inducted into the Canadian Army YMCA Unit was placed in charge of the YMCA Military
with the rank of Lieutenant. He was transfered Department before being promoted as General
to England where he served six months at Secretary for the Westminster YMCA in 1921. The

the Granville hospital, Ramsgate, England. Victoria Daily Times newspaper reported that
He supervised Monk’s Horton hospital work. YMCA officials were elected during the 13-hour
Paulding was transferred again to Sandgate, quarterly meeting held on Saturday, April 8,
England where he organized a YMCA theater. 1922. A.S. McAlister presided. Project reports

He was then assigned to YMCA Laddie Millen were given. Stanley Brent, National Secretary
Hut to operate another theater at Shorncliffe, for Western Provinces, gave an address at the
England. close of the meeting.
John W. Ross of Montreal built the Laddie
Millen Hut as a memorial named for a soldier Officials elected for the year:

of the University Company who was killed in • Chairman, W. S. Maguire,
France the morning of February 19, 1916. Frank • Vice-chairman, Frank Paulding, General
was the business manager and acting supervisor Secretary of Westminster

for the YMCA in the Shorncliffe area. He was • Secretary-treasurer John Duckworth,
slated for service in France when the war ended assistant boys’ secretary of Vancouver
with the armistice. Paulding was the last overseas • Fourth member of committee, F. H. G.
Canadian YMCA officer to leave the overseas Estabrook
Canadian army discharge depot at Buxton,

Derbyshire, England. He departed England on
troop ship Saxonia that arrived at Halifax, Nova
Scotia on December 20, 1919. Frank returned to

Vancouver, British Columbia after his discharge.
Pauling continued to work for the YMCA.
At the January 24, 1920 directors meeting of
the YMCA Rosebud District at Olds, Alberta,

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