![James Charles Shields, Who’s Who and Why [Northern Who’s Who], volume 1, edited by Dr. C.W. Parker; Vancouver, Western Press Association, 1916, page 742; https://archive.org/stream/northernwhoswhob01park#page/742/mode/1up.](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/james-charles-shields-who_s-who-and-why-volume-1-1916-page-742.jpg)
![Henderson’s Greater Vancouver City Directory, 1919, page 831 [edited image].](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/j-c-shields-henderson_s-greater-vancouver-city-directory-1919-page-831.jpg)
James Charles Stuart Shields was born in Toronto, Ontario on November 11, 1876. (He was sometimes known as John Charles Shields, J.C. Shields, or J.C.S Shields. His friends usually called him “Jim.”)
His father was John Shields (1842-1916), who was a contractor and builder of railways, canals, bridges and other large projects. James’s mother was Essie Annis Smiley (1851-1881).
John Shields
John Shields worked as a railway contractor throughout Ontario and western Canada. By the time of the Klondike gold rush in the late 1890s, he had been in British Columbia for several years. He was in charge of a stage line that he hoped many gold-seekers would use on their way to the Klondike gold fields.
John Shields was also one of the promoters of a business that provided water and electricity to Ashcroft, British Columbia. (James Charles Stuart Shields was also involved in the business.) Originally there were two companies: one for water-works, and another for electricity. In late 1898, the main shareholders petitioned the British Columbia government to establish a new company which would acquire the assets of the existing companies.
![Ashcroft Water-Works Company and Ashcroft Water, Light and Power Company, petition for new company, December 17, 1898; [selected portions of petition]; http://archives.leg.bc.ca/civix/document/id/leg_archives/legarchives/1973441992.](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/ashcroft-water-works-company-and-ashcroft-water-light-and-power-company-petition-for-new-company-december-17-1898.jpg)
Japanese diplomats protested against these types of laws. (It is not clear that China issued a similar protest.) Although the federal government could have disallowed the discriminatory part of the legislation, it chose not to. Instead, it gave “an earnest recommendation to the provincial government… that at the next ensuing session of the legislature they introduce legislation in each case to repeal the clause in question.” [Papers relating to the disallowance of certain Statutes passed by the Legislature of British Columbia; British Columbia. Legislative Assembly, 1900; https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcsessional/items/1.0063870.]
In the summer of 1899, John was in Victoria, British Columbia, arranging with Albion Iron Works to deliver irrigation pipe to Ashcroft.
In 1904, the British Columbia Anti-Tuberculosis Society was planning to build a provincial tuberculosis sanitarium. John Shields and the Ashcroft Water, Light and Power Company offered to donate 10 acres of land at Boston Flats near Ashcroft.
The sanitarium did not go to Ashcroft; it went to Tranquille, near Kamloops.
In 1911, John built a new house in Ashcroft. The house was still standing a century later, after surviving a fire in 2002.
The exterior of the house has a series of narrow clapboard veneers, about three feet long. Vertical battens cover the joints. The house resembles many of the buildings that used the B.C. Mills Prefabricated System. Edwin Caton Mahony, who lived at 2005 Comox Street from 1907 to 1924, received a patent for the system. The house at 2005 Comox Street also used the B.C. Mills system.
John died in Ashcroft on February 14, 1916. He was buried in Toronto, Ontario.
James Charles Stuart Shields
James’s education took place in Toronto, including a period at a collegiate institute in Toronto. In the 1890s he went to the University of Toronto. He was a member of the Alpha-Beta Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
In the 1897 Toronto City Directory, James was living with his father at 126 University Avenue.
By the late 1890s James and his father were in British Columbia. At the end of 1898, James was one of the petitioners who were seeking a new company to run the affairs of the Ashcroft water and power systems.
In 1901, James was in Ashcroft, British Columbia, working as the postmaster. He was also the secretary of the Ashcroft Water, Electric and Improvement Company.
In 1902, James was in Sicamous, British Columbia. He described his occupation as “accountant.”
In August 1902, the provincial government incorporated the Shuswap Shingle and Lumber Company Limited, a private company whose purpose was to take over and operate certain lumber businesses that James had owned.
Marriage and Early Life with Ida
On December 17, 1902, in the district of Revelstoke, British Columbia, James married Ida Jane Paul, who was a government telegraph operator. She was born in Toronto, Ontario on April 1 (or April 7), 1878. Her parents were John William Paul (1837-1917) and Mary Perry (1843-1881).
In 1906, James and Ida were in Regina, Saskatchewan, along with their infant daughter, Hilda, who was born in Ontario about 1904.
James first appeared in the Vancouver directories in 1912. He was the president of Dominion Lumber and Timber Company Limited. He was living at number 306 in Washington Court, at 998 Thurlow Street.
He lived at the following addresses in Vancouver.
| 1912 | Number 306, 998 Thurlow Street (Washington Court) |
| 1913 | Number 12, 789 Granville Street (Granville Mansions) |
| 1914 | Vancouver directory gave home address as Kamloops, B.C. |
| 1915 to 1917 | Not listed under Vancouver names |
| 1918 | Vancouver Hotel |
| 1919 and 1920 | 2001 Nelson Street (streets only in 1920) |
| 1920 | Number 29, 1058 Nelson Street (Caroline Court) |
| 1921 | Number 61, 1507 West 12th Avenue (Douglas Lodge) |
| 1922 | Number 57, 1507 West 12th Avenue |
| 1922 | Number 46, 2046 Beach Avenue (Englesea Lodge) (Ida’s travel reference) |
| 1923 | Union Club (probably Victoria, British Columbia) |
| 1924 | Number 7, 1901 Pendrell Street (Gilford Court) |
| June 1924 | 4667 Queen’s Avenue |
Hilda’s Death in France
After arriving in Vancouver, Ida appeared frequently in the Vancouver society columns. Her daughter, Hilda, also appeared from time to time.
In October 1912, Ida and Hilda sailed from Montreal, Quebec to Liverpool. They travelled on the S.S. Megantic (sometimes called R.M.S. Megantic).
They arrived in Liverpool on October 5.
![The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and successors: Inwards Passenger Lists.; Class: BT26; Piece: 522; Item: 77. Ancestry.com. UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Name: Ida Shields and Hilda Shields; Port of Departure: Montréal, Québec, Canada; Arrival Date: 5 Oct 1912; Port of Arrival: Liverpool, England; Ship Name: Megantic.](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/ida-shields-and-hilda-shields-port-of-departure-montrc3a9al-quc3a9bec-arrival-date-5-oct-1912-port-of-arrival-liverpool-england.jpg)
At the end of November 1912, Hilda sailed alone from Liverpool to New York City. She travelled on R.M.S. Celtic.
![Ancestry.com. Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Passenger Lists, 1865–1935. Microfilm Publications T-479 to T-520, T-4689 to T-4874, T-14700 to T-14939, C-4511 to C-4542. Library and Archives Canada, n.d. RG 76-C. Department of Employment and Immigration fonds. Library and Archives Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Name: Ida J Shields; Age: 34; Birth Year: about 1878; Date of Arrival: 30 Nov 1912; Vessel: Celtic; Port of Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Port of Departure: Liverpool, England.](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/ida-j-shields-birth-year-about-1878-date-of-arrival-30-nov-1912-vessel-celtic-port-of-arrival-new-york-port-of-departure-liverpool-england.jpg)
Hilda’s death caused a serious rift in James’s and Ida’s marriage. James began to blame Ida, and he often became drunk and unpleasant.
Business Activities from 1910 to 1920
Despite James’s personal problems, he continued his business activities for many of the years between 1910 and 1920. (In 1914, because of his excessive drinking, a “committee in lunacy” was appointed to look after his affairs. After he spent nine months in a private hospital, he was pronounced fit to look after himself and his property.)
Along with the Dominion Lumber business, he was involved with other similar businesses in British Columbia and elsewhere in western Canada.
In 1914, he was the president of Shields Lumber Company Limited in Kamloops, British Columbia.
He appeared in the 1916 edition of Who’s Who and Why.
![James Charles Shields, Who’s Who and Why [Northern Who’s Who], volume 1, edited by Dr. C.W. Parker; Vancouver, Western Press Association, 1916, page 742, https://archive.org/stream/northernwhoswhob01park#page/742/mode/1up.](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/james-charles-shields-who_s-who-and-why-volume-1-edited-by-dr-c-w-parker-vancouver-western-press-association-1916-page-742.jpg)
In 1916 he was in Chicago when he had to return to British Columbia because his father was ill.
In February 1917, James’s brother, Alexander, died in Vancouver.
James appeared in Phi Kappa Sigma’s 1920 register of fraternity members.
In 1921 he was the manager of Western Timber Corporation Limited.
James’s and Ida’s Later Life
Despite their personal difficulties, James and Ida travelled and spent significant amounts of time together.
In 1915 they went to Honolulu, Hawaii.
In the summer of 1917, they were staying at 2067 Pendrell Street in Vancouver.
In 1918, James and Ida went on a holiday to California.
In 1918, James and Ida moved to a summer home at Caulfeilds in West Vancouver.
In September 1918, they moved from Caulfeilds to live in the Hotel Vancouver.
In 1919, Ida welcomed a large group of guests to her home on Nelson Street (probably 2001 Nelson Street).
![Vancouver Daily World, February 26, 1919, page 6, column 4 [long list of guests omitted].](https://westendvancouver.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/mrs-j-c-shields-tea-on-nelson-street-vancouver-daily-world-february-26-1919-page-6-column-4.jpg)
Bessie returned home in early January 1920, and Ida stayed in Hawaii.
Ida was staying in a hotel in Honolulu at the time of the 1920 United States census on January 28, 1920.
In the early 1920s, James’s and Ida’s relationship grew worse, and they started to live apart.
In April 1920, Charles Dawson auctioned off the contents of 2001 Nelson Street. This may have been the furnishings of the Shields family.
In 1924, Ida sued James for a judicial separation and alimony.
On May 17, 1924, James made a will, leaving nothing to Ida. Instead, he gave one half of his estate to his sister, Blanche Louise Crabbe, and the rest to his trustees: one quarter to his cousin, Roy Shields; and one quarter to Leslie W. Cameron, who was from Ashcroft.
On the evening of June 19, 1924, James went to his home at 4667 Queens Avenue in the Point Grey area (now part of Vancouver). A taxi driver found James lying dead, with a rifle underneath him.
A coroner’s jury concluded that James had committed suicide while he was in a state of mental depression.
James was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Vancouver.
The Dispute over the Will and Ida’s Death
Ida did not agree with James’s choices to leave her out of his will. (She did receive a life insurance payment of $23,000.)
Ida sued James’s estate, claiming that he had suffered from alcoholic dementia and so he had no mental capacity to make a will.
The trial court agreed with Ida and set the will aside. The result was that the estate would be distributed as if there had been no will. (The estate was actually insolvent, so there was nothing left to distribute in any case.)
James’s sister, Blanche, one of the beneficiaries of the will, appealed the decision of the trial court. The appeal court agreed with Blanche that James was competent when he made the will.
Ida died in California, probably in Alameda County, on July 10, 1925. She was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
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“Hawaii, Honolulu Passenger Lists, 1900-1953,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9Z-H1FB : 30 December 2014), Ida Jane Shields, 1915; citing Ship , NARA microfilm publication A3422 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
“California, San Francisco Passenger Lists, 1893-1953,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1W-ZQ4R : 2 April 2015), Ida J Shields, 1915; citing San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1410 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,465,651.
“Hawaii, Honolulu Passenger Lists, 1900-1953,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9Z-8VTG : 30 December 2014), Ida Shields, 1920; citing Ship , NARA microfilm publication A3422 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
“Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KY23-9JQ : 4 December 2014), Ida Jane Shields, ; citing Seattle, King, Washington, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1383, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 2,266,057.
“United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SP82-H4X : accessed 25 September 2017), Ida J Shields in household of Jean M P Poirier, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States; citing ED 22, sheet 15B, line , family 199, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 2035; FHL microfilm 1,822,035.
“California Death Index, 1905-1939,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKSM-8BNW : 5 June 2015), Ida J Shields, 10 Jul 1925; citing 31084, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento; FHL microfilm 1,686,047.
“BillionGraves Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXBR-FHQ : 24 June 2015), Ida Jane Shields, died 10 Jul 1925; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. [https://billiongraves.com/grave/person/3155965.]
“Find A Grave Index,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGV-ZFKR : 13 December 2015), Ida Jane Shields, ; Burial, Oakland, Alameda, California, United States of America, Mountain View Cemetery; citing record ID 128427087, Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=128427087.
British Columbia Supreme Court, Probate Files; B08727 Shields, Ida Jane P – 10491; First page of probate file: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97Z-VNDL?i=2225&wc=M69V-LWL%3A332530701%2C332530502%2C333798001&cc=2014768; last page of probate file: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997Z-VNZK?i=2244&wc=M69V-LWL%3A332530701%2C332530502%2C333798001&cc=2014768.
Hilda Shields (daughter of James Charles Stuart Shields)
“Canada Census, 1906,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHV9-FJD : 1 April 2016), Hilda Shields in household of J C Shields, 37C, Assiniboia West, Saskatchewan, Canada; Public Archives, Ottawa, Ontario; http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/e/e049/e001208401.pdf.
Francis Alexander Shields (brother of James Charles Stuart Shields)
“Ontario Births, 1869-1912,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FM3V-K9Z : 16 July 2017), Francis Alexander Shields, 30 Dec 1872; citing Birth, Petrolia, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, citing Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,845,040.
“British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993”, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLK8-ZJ6 : 13 April 2017), Francis Alexander Shields, 1917.
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