Let’s go back to Christmas 1925 and visit Calvert family members having dinner with friends including the Guiry family.
The above photo was taken at the Calvert's log home at around 12th Avenue and 56th Street, according to the Delta Archives.
The decorations on the table include Christmas crackers.
Edward Theodore Calvert (1875-1940) was born in 1875 in Devon, England, immigrating to Canada in 1892.
He married Euphemia May Robinson (1877-1964) in 1898.
They had six children: Arthur (1899), Alex (1903), Godfrey (1905), Dorothy (1911), Barbara (1913) and Ruth (1914).
In 1902 the Calvert family moved to Port Guichon in Delta where Edward Calvert became agent for the Great Northern Railway, and then started a business in Ladner, the E.T. Calvert Agricultural Machinery equipment store.
The Calvert family with friends at their home for Christmas dinner, 1925. E.T Calvert is in the back row, middle, while Barbara, Ruth, and Dorothy Calvert are in the front row
In 1914, Calvert was appointed the first customs agent at the new Boundary Bay customs office at the corner of 56th Street and 12th Avenue.
Calvert patrolled the international boundary and adjacent areas, and at the time of his death in 1940 was the chief customs-excise examiner for Boundary Bay.
He actively participated in musical groups and events in Delta, being the first conductor for the Delta Choral Society.
Among his many community services was serving as president of the Delta Board of Trade in 1936.
The Calvert family home
