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August 20, 2002 - Commander Thomas Willing Stirling 1866-1930
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 Commander Thomas Willing Stirling, OBE was born 10 October 1866 in Manchester, and died 1930 in Bankhead Orchard, Kelowna. He married Mabel Marie Connally 28 June 1888. She died in Bankhead Orchard, Kelowna.
Notes for Commander Thomas Willing Stirling:
Emigrated to BC in 1893 after resigning his commission in the Navy. Started Bankhead Orchard. With Mr. James Crozier and Mr Colin Simpson Smith, he was instrumental in inaugurating the first co-operative association for the marketing of farm produce in the the upper country of British Columbia. On the death of his elder brother, John Stirling, he succeeded to the entailed estate of Muiravonside. With the concurrence and consent of his eldest son, Robert, steps were taken to break the entail which were finally consummated in 1923.
In 1908 he purchased the superiority of Drumpellier from the Trustees of his father's estate. This was not included in the entailed estate and had never passed into the possession of John Stirling of Muiravonside.
It was this man who wrote "The Stirlings of Cadder" (posthumously published in 1933), which is the source of most of my historical information on the Stirlings.
Submitted by Elspeth Flood
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