by Michael Hammond | Feb 20, 1985 | Obituaries
William John Sainsbury-Woods, a Hampshire man, and Elizabeth Barnes, a Dorset girl, met in college in Winchester England. After their graduation they decided to pool their educational resources and start teaching school, he as principal or master, and she as assistant...
by Michael Hammond | Dec 11, 1984 | Obituaries
During the summer of 1917 the Reverend John S. Quinn, pastor of St. Carthagh’s Tweed, together with his parishioners, prepared the former Queen’s Hotel which they had purchased to be a convent home for the Sisters of Providence. One of the first tasks the Sisters took...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 29, 1984 | Obituaries
On February 17, 1909, in St. Peter’s Church, Parry Sound, Ontario, Joseph Emedie Cote took Ellen (Nellie) Mary Foley to be his wife. Of this most loving union, in the space of five years, three children were born. The first offspring, Marie, was to be her father’s...
by Michael Hammond | Apr 20, 1984 | Obituaries
On January 13, 1902, to Lambeth West, England, Eileen King was born – the second child of Herbert King and Julia Nano Weldon. Her brother, Gerald was the first born, and after Eileen, in quick succession, there followed three more sisters and three brothers. The...
by Michael Hammond | Nov 8, 1983 | Obituaries
“Have you a place in your Community for a girl like me?” with this question Hilda McAndrews began her letter of inquiry addressed to the “Reverend Sister of Novices” at Heathfield. We did, indeed, have a place for her! In fact, she fitted in very well, having in good...
