I am writing a book about a family that grew up in and around the Qualicum Beach area of Vancouver Island. I am looking for information about this family.

The patriarch of this family was Herbert Hall. Herbert, along with his wife Margaret and his daughter, Idris, came to Qualicum Beach in 1910 - they had emigrated from the U.K. They had another daughter, also named Margaret but nicknamed Miki, in 1912.

Miki spent most of her younger years travelling the world with her sister, Idris, who was then known as Aloha Wanderwell. Miki and Aloha spent many, many years circling the globe in motorized vehicles, and whenever there was a rest or a break in the travelling, Miki would always return to the Qualicum Beach area of Vancouver Island.

By the late 1930s, Miki (full name Margaret Verner Hall) lived exclusively on the east coast of Vancouver Island, primarily on the beach near Merville and Black Creek in a home she called Windsong. In or around 1940 she joined the RCAF and acted as a stenographer and secretary in a war office in Victoria, British Columbia where she served until the end of the war. In 1990 she sold Windsong and moved into a condominium at Fairway Place in Comox where she died in 1993.

If anyone who reads this has heard of anyone in the Hall family, specifically Miki, and know of any information about her days on Vancouver Island, with the RCAF and in the QB area, I would be most grateful to hear from them.

I have added a separate tribute/request for Herbert Cecil Victor (H.C.V.) Hall who was a member of the Durham Light Infantry during the First World War and died at the Second Battle of Ypres.

Thank you.