Name, Web link to Find a Grave website from Sarah Kay in an email dated 6 January 2024:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26304134/edward-hewetson-heaps
Name: Edward Hewetson Heaps
Age: 88 yrs or 89 yrs {articles conflict}
Birth: 26 Mar 1851, Yorkshire, England
Death: 4 Mar 1940, at residence
Residence: Harwood St, Vancouver, BC
Previous residences:
- New Brunswick; 3 yrs; then returned to England
- Oshawa, Ontario: 1886; 3 yrs
Returned to Canada from England: 1886
In Vancouver: 1889, after visiting Vancouver a year earlier; 51 yrs
Occupation:
- pioneer Vancouver businessman
- first worked as a cotton broker
- furniture business; Oshawa, Ontario, 3 yrs
- furniture factory, False Creek, near north end of Granville St. bridge; this factory burned down.
- machinery business, until 1895
- lumber business, E.H. Heaps Lumber Co., Cedar Cove, on Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, BC; business carried on by 2 sons
Memberships & affiliations:
- former alderman, one term on Vancouver City Council
- member, Police Commission
- past president, Vancouver Board of Trade; 1898-1899
- took part in establishment of All Saints' Church, east end, Vancouver, BC
- member, St. Paul's Anglican Church
Predeceased by:
- wife; married in England
Survived by:
- son, Edward Moore; Vancouver, BC
- son, James Wilson; Vancouver, BC
- son, Arthur Robinson; Vancouver, BC
- son, John; New Westminster, BC
- daughter, Miss Kate Eden; at home
- daughter, Miss Constance Anna; at home
- daughter, Elsie Franklin; Prince Rupert, BC
- 7 grandchildren
Funeral service: 7 Mar 1940, St. Paul's Anglican Church, Vancouver, BC
Interment: family plot, Mountain View Cemetery

References:
- "Deaths", The Province (Vancouver, BC), 5 Mar 1940; page 17. Newspapers.com. Web.
- "Vancouver Pioneer Dies", Nanaimo Daily News, 5 Mar 1940; page 6. Newspapers.com. Web.
- "E.H. Heaps Dies At Home Here", The Province (Vancouver, BC), 5 Mar 1940; page 16. Newspapers.com. Web.
- "E.H. Heaps Dead; Here Since 1889 -- Active in Local Business Circles for Fifty Years", The Vancouver Sun, 5 Mar 1940; page 13. Newspapers.com. Web.
- "Final Tribute Paid To E.H. Heaps", The Province (Vancouver, BC), 7 Mar 1940; page 5. Newspapers.com. Web.

BC Death Registration: 1940-09-570642
Name: Edward Hewetson Heaps
Age: 88 yrs
Birth: 26 Mar 1851, England
Death: 4 Mar 1940, Vancouver, BC
Status: Widowed
Father: Thomas Heaps
Mother: Jane Moore

Sarah Kay is the x2 great-granddaughter of Mary Jane Heaps, brother of Wilson Heaps to emigrated to New Zealand. Wilson Heaps' son, Walter, married Aileen Dodson, who is the second cousin to Brian of nzoliver's grandmother, Kathleen McCaul.

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Photo, name of spouse and children, from Sarah Kay in the same email dated 6 January 2024:
SPOUSE of Edward Hewetson Heaps:
- Anna Robinson Heaps 1852–1927
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26264248/anna-heaps

CHILDREN
- - Kate Eden Heaps 1878–1956
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198762528/kate-eden-heaps

- - Edward Moore Heaps 1880–1950
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/247817746/edward-moore-heaps

- - James Wilson Heaps 1881–1954
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/247761655/james-wilson-heaps

- - Arthur Robinson Heaps 1885–1956
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198762780/arthur-robinson-heaps

- - Annie Gertrude Heaps 1890–1890
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26304133/annie-gertrude-heaps

- - Constance Anna Heaps 1892–1950
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/247844433/constance-anna-heaps