CO2JH 1940 Cuba

Jim Hopgood, CO2JH
Silent Key (1914-1988)

Jim Hopgood was a teenager when he became radio active in Havana, Cuba. He was one of several children of a Canadian-born parents.

James Male Hopgood, the father, who was a banker in Havana, received his early training in the service of the Royal Bank of Canada at Halifax, Nova Scotia, holding many positions of responsibility with that institution. He came to Havana in 1905 as accountant for the Galiano Street branch of the same bank and the following year joined the Trust Company of Cuba. Mr. Hopgood was a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia. He later became the president of the Trust Company of Havana.
The family remained in Cuba until Castro came into power. Many, if not all, of the Hopgoods left Cuba and settled in Florida.

James Churchill Hopgood, CO2JH, was born August 11, 1914 in Havana and became a Silent Key January 8, 1988 in Florida.

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