Terrett Wedding, September 4, 1948
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The bride is Helen Emily Payne, daughter of Edward and Grace Payne. The groom is Reginald St. J. Terrett. Reg Terrett immigrated to Canada in 1922, settling in Oshawa, Ontario where he worked for General Motors and where he established several Boy Scout troops. In 1940 he moved to Regina, Saskatchewan to become a provincial secretary for the Boy Scouts. It was in Regina that he met Helen Payne, who was the daughter of the postmaster in nearby Craven, Saskatchewan.
Reg Terrett went on to serve overseas with distinction in the RCAF in 1942 as a Flight Officer, and returned to Ontario after the war. From 1955 to 1969 he served as the Provincial Executive Commissioner of the Ontario Boy Scouts.
The Terretts remained together, living in Leaside (a suburb of Toronto), until his death in the 1970s. They had three children.
The following link provides archive information from the Oshawa library about Reg Terrett's war experience: localhistory.oshawalibrary.ca/pdfportal/pdfskins/.../pg_0076.pdf
A few corrections and clarifications: Reg Terrett was a regional field worker and liaison for the Scouts in Saskatchewan - he was not the Provincial Secretary. Helen had moved to Regina from Craven to complete high school at Luther College and to take her certification with the Royal Conservatory of music in piano. She then took a secretarial course and was employed in the Regina Scout office where she met Reg. Her father was not a postmaster. He was the CP Railroad Station Master in Craven Saskatchewan and his wife Grace was a telegrapher. After being demobbed from the war Reginald went to the University of Toronto (Victoria College) and earned a BA. After his marriage to Helen, he worked in Ottawa with Dr. Claire Brink as a research assistant researching treatment of tuberculosis. He then worked in London, Ontario with his former RCAF CO at Henry Power Tools until taking on the role in Toronto, Ontario of Ontario Provincial Commissioner for the Boy Scouts. After retiring from the Scouts, Reg worked at Wycliffe College, the University of Toronto as their Executive Administrator and fundraiser for the College until he retired in 1977.