Erika White

Erika and her husband, Ernie White, were born in Germany, but they immigrated to this country in the early 1930s and settled in Kenora, Ontario, as farmers. When farming proved impossible because of the depression, Ernie White got a job in the mines as a machinist, then worked on the Trans-Canada Highway. Eventually he and his wife moved to North Vancouver, where they both worked for Burrard Shipyards, Ernie as a machinist for about thirty years, Erika as a parts assembler for a time during the war.

Ernie White was a member of the Burrard Masonic Lodge for about twenty-five years and served as past master for one year. After his death in the early 1980s, the Burrard Lodge made a donation to the Foundation for the purpose of giving scholarships to students entering technological fields, in memory of Ernie White. Before she died in 1992, Mrs. White made many further donations to the North Vancouver High School Education Foundation for this purpose.