CLAY, ELLIS & AVERY 1960 – 1980

The property was passed down to Dick and Joan and their spouses in 1972.  At that time, you could transfer property to your family for 100 dollars before the capital gains taxes were established a few years later by the then-Sr. Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.    

Ellis, Avery, Gardiner, Murphy 1970 – 1980

In the 1970s and 1980s, all seven Ellis and Avery children met, married, and started having their children. 
In 1971, Cathy Ellis married Shane Murphy and had a son, Joel Murphy, on March 2, 1977, and a daughter, Shannon Murphy, on January 27, 1980, while living in Vernon, BC. In 1971, Debbie Ellis married John Leier, and they ran a Group Home for teenagers for 3 years in Whisky Creek. David Ellis married Monica Kingsberry and had a son, Jeremy Ellis. Barb Ellis married Doug Gardiner on Oct 1, 1977.