Aug 14, 2026 · 27 min · 15 segments
Dianna and Donna Ring were identical twins who grew up in North Vancouver. In 1960 the family moved to Mabel Lake in the Okanagan, the same year that 12-year-old Dianna was crowned Lynn Valley Day's…
Eve LazarusHostMike MorrisGuestCharleneGuest
Terry ToddGuest
Donna and Diana were born on February the 18th, 1948 in Kelowna, British Columbia.
They moved to North Vancouver with their parents, Victor and Elsie, and their older brother, Duane, when they were four years old.
The twins went to Lynn Valley Elementary and later to Argyle, the same high school that my three kids attended not all that long ago.
The twins were two grades ahead of Terry Todd at Lynn Valley Elementary, but he remembers them vividly, and he still has the newspaper clippings, although now they're yellowed with age.
I was 13 at the time, and they were 15, so they were a year and a half, two years older than me, and I secretly had a crush on both those girls at that age, you know, because they were both, both beautiful girls.
When they were in elementary school, I had heard that they had switched places on April Fools' Day.
Elsie Ring was a Sunday school teacher, and Terry attended every week with the twins.
When it happened in October of '63, there's never had been, you know, to me, something as tragic and as horrible as what had happened, and I was absolutely shocked that things like that could happen in my world.
Six weeks later, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, sweeping aside all other news from the front pages of the papers.
In 1960, 12-year-old Diana was crowned May Queen at the May Day celebration, which later became part of Lynn Valley Days.
There were stories in both The Province and the Vancouver Sun, and the Sun ran a photo of the crown being placed on Diana's head by the previous May Queen.
They were in Girl Guides, played on the volleyball team, and took part in track and field.
Their father had been teaching them to drive so they could get their learner's licenses when they turned 16.
In 1960, the same year that Diana was crowned May Queen, Victor and Elsie Ring became partners in a lodge at Mabel Lake in BC's interior.
Elsie and the girls spent another year in North Vancouver, and the next year they all moved to Mabel Lake.
It didn't last long because Elsie felt that the 35-kilometer daily each-way bus ride to school and then home again was too much for the teens, and they moved back to North Vancouver to attend Argyle High School for one more year.
Donna and Diana were born on February the 18th, 1948 in Kelowna, British Columbia.
They moved to North Vancouver with their parents, Victor and Elsie, and their older brother, Duane, when they were four years old.
The twins went to Lynn Valley Elementary and later to Argyle, the same high school that my three kids attended not all that long ago.
The twins were two grades ahead of Terry Todd at Lynn Valley Elementary, but he remembers them vividly, and he still has the newspaper clippings, although now they're yellowed with age.
I was 13 at the time, and they were 15, so they were a year and a half, two years older than me, and I secretly had a crush on both those girls at that age, you know, because they were both, both beautiful girls.
When they were in elementary school, I had heard that they had switched places on April Fools' Day.
Elsie Ring was a Sunday school teacher, and Terry attended every week with the twins.
When it happened in October of '63, there's never had been, you know, to me, something as tragic and as horrible as what had happened, and I was absolutely shocked that things like that could happen in my world.
Six weeks later, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, sweeping aside all other news from the front pages of the papers.
In 1960, 12-year-old Diana was crowned May Queen at the May Day celebration, which later became part of Lynn Valley Days.
There were stories in both The Province and the Vancouver Sun, and the Sun ran a photo of the crown being placed on Diana's head by the previous May Queen.
They were in Girl Guides, played on the volleyball team, and took part in track and field.
Their father had been teaching them to drive so they could get their learner's licenses when they turned 16.
In 1960, the same year that Diana was crowned May Queen, Victor and Elsie Ring became partners in a lodge at Mabel Lake in BC's interior.
Elsie and the girls spent another year in North Vancouver, and the next year they all moved to Mabel Lake.
It didn't last long because Elsie felt that the 35-kilometer daily each-way bus ride to school and then home again was too much for the teens, and they moved back to North Vancouver to attend Argyle High School for one more year.
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