Help Us Find “Dave From The Island”

UPDATE!!!! WE FOUND DAVE FROM THE ISLAND!

Turns out he’s Dave from North Delta now, and his Son In Law was listening to the show when we were talking about Dave. We called and had a chat with Dave who is alive, well and really shocked that a radio station is calling him! LISTEN:

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Time for the Island Branch of the JR Family to step up and FIND DAVE!

Doug Bradley from Ontario wants to have a reunion with some people he met on a trip to Europe back in the days of super short dad shorts and obscene sideburns. The thing is, one of the guys he only knew as “Dave from The Island” From the NANAIMO NEWS BULLITON:

“I was backpacking in Europe in 1969 with my sister… we bumped into a bunch of people in Koln, one Canadian and five Americans and we proceeded to the Bonn Youth Hostel,” Bradley said. “There we noticed that the moon landing was the next day and we were only a couple of kilometres away form the old U.S. embassy.”

Bradley said he, his sister, Dave and the five Americans travelled together for another four or five days after that.

“Then we sort of split up,” Bradley said. “Dave was the one who owned a car so he drove the Americans through Italy and France and Spain.”

Unfortunately Bradley didn’t record Dave’s last name in the diary he kept during his trip and only knew he came from somewhere on Vancouver Island.

“He would be about 70 or 71,” he said. “It’s really hard if you don’t have a last name.”
Bradley did have a few last names of the American travellers, and he was able to locate them via the internet.
“I’ve actually found all of the people who travelled in that week with us and beyond except for Dave,” he said. “We’re having a reunion in Monterey, Calif., June 11 to 15 and all of us are going except we’re still trying to reach Dave.”
Anyone who may know the ‘Dave’ that Bradley is looking for can contact him at douglas.bradley@rogers.com, or 613-321-2303 or the Vancouver Island Free Daily at editor@vifreedaily.com.