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Person
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Lindgren, Adolphus
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Description area
Dates of existence
1828-1908
History
Adolphus Hardisty Lindgren was born on March 7 1828 at Canonbury Fields, London. An Anglo-Swedish businessman and shipping agent in London, he also had vineyards in Sicily. Near poverty when his wife died in 1899, he and his son, Captain Albert Adolphus Lindgren, emigrated to Vancouver in May 1900. At Vancouver, Adolphus played the organ at St. James's Anglican Church on Gore and Cordova, taught English and French to Chinese students, and worked as bookkeeper to Arthur McEvoy, “barrister-at-law, solicitor & notary”, at 19-20, Flack Block, 163, Hastings Street West. In his spare time, he composed music and sketched in pencil and watercolour, both for his own amusement and that he might send pictures of his new homeland to the family he had left behind in Europe. He died of gastroenteritis on 4th October 1908 at 106, 9th Avenue West, Vancouver, the home of his friend and employer Arthur McEvoy.
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London (England)
Vancouver (B.C.)