Robert Muir

While looking for another staff member who died in April 1942, I found this:

     Transcribed here for your perusal, another sad tale. Could not find out much about this fellow other than he started at Essondale in 1918, which made me think that he was probably a WWI veteran.

 THE COQUITLAM HERALD        THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942.

Essondale Man Takes Life 

Superannuated after 24 years as an employee of the Essondale Mental Hospital and Colony Farm staff, Robert Muir, 69, was found shot in his room in the Colony Farm annex on May 5.

A revolver was found beneath the body and there was a wound in the head.

An inquest under Dr. E. H. McEwen, coroner, was held when the jury returned a verdict that death was self-inflicted while the deceased was mentally depressed.

Muir, who was the attendant in charge of the annex building, was born in Scotland and had no relatives in the district. His parents were:  Robert Muir, and ? McFarlane.

ROBERT MUIR

The funeral service for time late Robert Muir, attendant at Colony Farm, who died on April 29, was held on May 1.

The Rev. James LeRoy Sloat, New Westminster officiated. Interment was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

The pallbearers were Isaac Watts, W. King, Harry Arthur Steed, William Clair Adams, Robert Blair and E. M. McKay.

Death certificate  states the date of his death as the 29^th of April 1942, and that Robert was born on December 4, 1873 in Scotland.  So he worked at Colony Farm for 24 years, and the death certificate says that he was in B.C. for 30 years.