David Henderson:  

I, David was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, but moved with my mother and sister to Canada in Dec. 1953, settling first in West Vancouver close to relatives. I attended Pauline Johnson and Hollyburn Elementary schools, then Sir William Dawson in the Fall of 1954 after we moved to a house on Davie St., then over to Barclay just north of Thurlow. That would be grade 4 but then moved to Tennyson in Kits, then Edith Cavell near Cambie and 21st for the start of 1955. Then to Lord Tennyson again 10th Ave & Cypress 1955-56, Then finally came back to Dawson Jan. 1957 where we lived at The Elgin apartments 961 Howe St. and graduated into KGHS in 1959. I continued at King George until Dec. 1962 when I moved to Vancouver Island near Nanoose Bay, and finished high school at Qualicum Beach Elem-Secondary school and graduated in 1963. I put myself in the KGHS class of 63 as that would be the year I would have graduated if we had stayed in Vancouver. I returned that summer to attend UBC and looked up old friends, some who also were going to UBC, and visited the new school on Denman to talk to some teachers. I spent 3 years at UBC then quit to pursue a career in photography, a subject I became heavily involved in while at UBC. I worked at Kerrisdale Cameras for 22 years until late 1988 doing commercial and retail sales and doing some professional photography on the side. It was at the start of work at Kerrisdale that my name became Scotty Henderson. That was because there was another David working there already, so in order to avoid confusion, I said call me Scotty, as it was an old nickname from when I first came to Canada due to my thick Scottish accent. Only my remaining family, mostly nieces call me David n...Expand for more