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Margaret Turner Montgomery Paul - later Grannie Paul -
watched her offspring spread across the continent and travelled a fair
bit in her later years, spending time with many of her children.
She died in 1939 in Vancouver, where several of the kids lived, and was
buried (many years later) in the family plot at Elmwood Cemetery,
Winnipeg .
Though she married fairly young (at 20), apparently she had attended
university and was tops in her Greek class.
Her passion seems to have been "her 'Poms' (Pomeranians) which she
regularly walked over the prairies. They were all prize winners, and all
seemed to be named Queenie. Margaret always gave them a blue rinse at
show time." |
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| James was the oldest and was 22 when the family arrived in
Winnipeg. The pictures do not show that he was an autistic savant
- excellent at math and music, but unable to hold a job. Lydia and
George often took him along on their courtship outings, but George had
to be firm about not taking him the day he proposed. James eventually
moved into the Brandon Insane Asylum, where he died in 1941. He is
buried beside his mother at Elmwood. |
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Elizabeth Douglas McPherson Paul Kennedy - always known as Bessie
- seems very shy in many of the pictures, often looking away from the
camera. And yet, she became a photographer, probably first in
Winnipeg, and had her own studio in Vancouver. She married Charles
Kennedy in Winnipeg, 1926 but lived in Vancouver for 40 years, where she
died in 1960. She did not have any
kids, but her home hosted many Paul visitors and some of her sibs and
families lived with her.
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Lydia Paul Dawson is Daphne's grandmother, so I have many more
pictures than these. She and George also travelled a lot.
Apparently she had an early miscarriage and was told she couldn't have
any more children. Nancy came along when she was 39. She was
hit and killed by a taxi in Montreal in 1956 and is buried in Norwood,
Ontario.
The bottom row are of Lydia with Nancy and George. |
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Margaret Montgomery Paul Duncan was always known only as Meta.
She was a Bridge wiz and often gave lessons to supplement the family's
meager income. She got married in 1910 to James moved them around the country a lot -
from Montreal to Vancouver - in search of work, generally as a clothes
salesman. They had two gorgeous girls: Peggy married a urologist
from Saskatoon, was a nurse overseas during WW2, and had two daughters
in turn (one of whom was living in Toronto in 2014); Elizabeth ended up in Chicago,
married to Lloyd Brown.
Meta died in 1941 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon, with
her husband and daughters. |
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Sarah Marie Paul Beresford - always know as Sadie - married in
Winnipeg and lived the rest of her life in various communities in
British Columbia, where Kenneth worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Sadie was very perturbed by raising their only daughter, Margaret, in a
blue-collar environment (Port Coquitlam, at that point) and sent her to
live with Aunt Jessie in Windsor, Ontario - where she married the
baker's delivery boy (They had two daughters and eventually ended up in
Florida.).
Sadie died in Bellingham, Washington in 1955, while visiting her
daughter, whose family lived there briefly (between Windsor and
Florida). She is buried |
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Archibald Alexander Paul, always know as Archie, was the
strongest contributor after the family arrived in Winnipeg, helping find
jobs, etc. A very popular uncle - gave Daphne a wooden puzzle she
treasured well into adulthood. Made many return visits to Scotland with
his wife (and first cousin). Their only son - Peter Paul, adopted two
children, lived and worked in Ottawa, but moved to Glasgow in the 1990s,
where Nancy and Daphne visited him in 2005.
Archie and Issy died and are buried in Calgary. |
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| Jessie Denham Gardiner Paul Watt lived in Windsor, Ontario,
where husband Fred was a custom's inspector. They adopted one son
and largely raised their niece Margaret. |
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William Gunning Campbell Paul (Jr.) was known as Willie by his
family but really wanted to be called Bill after moving to the States,
to sound more American. He and his first wife, Violet Gray, had
one son - Billie. With his second wife, Winifred (an Icelandic
girl from Gimli, Manitoba), he had a further 3 daughters and a son -
making him the most prolific of the 12 sibs by far. He died in
Chicago in 1957. Violet is buried at Elmwood with her
mother-in-law.
His oldest son became WGCP.3 - and his son WGCP.4
The picture at right is clearly marked as "Willie" (with a
wife and 2 children) but I don't know where to place him.Bill &
Winnie headed a family that became quite prominent, especially in
extreme right-wing circles. Google his granddaughter Janet
Parshall. |
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| Edith Alice Morley Paul (sometimes recorded as Alise) died of "The Chills" at the age of 23 in Winnipeg.
She is buried on the family plot at Elmwood. |
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| John Morley Paul lived in Calgary and died in Kelowna, British
Columbia in 1980. He married Hazel Denny in 1924, and Georgina McKenzie
in 1936. He and wife Georgina adopted one son. |
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| Allan Paul married Jessie Calder Gardiner in 1923 and died in
1949 and is buried on the family plot at Elmwood. |
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| Campbell MacKinnon Paul - always known as Kinnon - maybe Kin.
He and wife Mildred had one son and one daughter, both still living on Vancouver
Island, as of 2015. Kinnon died in Vancouver in 1970 and is buried
Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby. |
