Prolific patent-filer and tinkerer Donald Hings once attended Chesterfield School for Boys
Chesterfield House, designed by architect Henry Blackadder in 1913, is the former main house of the Chesterfield School for Boys, a British-styled institution run by headmaster, the Rev. John Newton Sykes. Now obscured by two carriage houses at its front, the house, which has been converted into apartments, is the last reminder of a once-prestigious school with multiple buildings and grounds at the corner of Chesterfield Avenue and Osborne Road.
Initially, she and her son settled in Lethbridge, Alta. before relocating to Vancouver when Hings was about nine years old. Winifred found work as a bookkeeper with the British Columbia Electric Railway, while lodging at 646 West 10th St. Hings left Chesterfield after middle school, attending Lambert Technical School, where he took a two-year wireless communications course. As described to me by Hings’s daughter, Doreen, now age 88, Lambert was a small commercial school above a tailor’s shop on Hastings Street, between Vancouver’s downtown Woodward and Spenser’s department stores. It was to be the last of his formal education.
As a 10-year-old boy scout, Hings had stood on a tree stump on top of Capitol Hill, Burnaby while on a camping trip and decided this would be where he would live. Sure enough, after the war his vision became a reality. He bought an acre of land on the hill, built a house for his family, and established his research company where he worked for the next 50 years developing cutting edge technology in the fields of wireless communications, radar and geophysics.
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