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Lorna Smithe: Birth: 1936 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Death: 1966 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Title: Never Registered Marriage Cert. It Got Lost Author: Beatrice Phillips |
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Title: Ontario, Canada, Certificate Of Marriage Author: Licence No. W 139487 |
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Note: Beatrice “Bea” Alvena Phillips b.29 Jun 1905 in Coboconk, Victoria Co., Ontario, Canada d.18 Aug 2004 at Lindsay, Ontario Bea was beautiful woman of slender built, about 5ft 4 inches tall, weight about 110 pounds, brown hair & eyes. Bea never smoked or drank. She loved her tea. Bea got her drive's license when she was 16, & own a car most of her life. She loved to drive. The death of Bea's Mother... Bea was 13 when her mother Ada Althea Routley-Phillips died in October 1918 from the World Wide Influenza Out Brake. Bea's Grandmother Margaret Dorathea Russell-Phillips & her son Frederick died from it also. Bea took over the responsibilities of raising the family which comprised of... their father William “Bill” John Phillips, brother's Cleveland Osborne “Phil or OC” 16, William Burton “Burt” 15, Clinton Roddis “Rod” 9, Cecil 7 & sister Monetta Dorathea “Mon or Buddy” 4yrs old. The 2 older boys where working away from home in the logging camps most of the time. Their father was a Mill Wright working at the mill in town owned by the Gull River Lumber Company. When Monetta was old enough to help out at their brother Phil's resort, Driftwood Lodge on Balsam Lake, Bea & her would go there for the summer to work. Bea did this till Monetta was 16, then she left for college. Education... Coboconk Public School grades 1-8 Lindsay Collegiate grades 9-13 Only one in the family to attend high school. 1932-34 Attended & Graduated from the Ontario Ladies College, Whitby, Ontario. (The only Phillips in her family& previous generations to attend any College). 1940 Elections... Dominion of Canada National Registration Regulations, 1940 Registration Certificate (side note: “This certificate must always be carried upon the person of the registrant.”) Electoral District No. 150. Polling Division No. 85 Victoria County. This is to Certify that Beatrice Alvena Phillips residing at Coboconk, Ontario. was duty registered under the above-mention Regulations this 19 day of August 1940. Signed Oretta Fielder Deputy Registrar. and Signature of Registrant Beatrice Phillips. On back in red 1944-45 LCB ONT also BEER LCBO 40-44 SOURCE: Her nephew Don Outram has it. Work... Worked for her brother, Phil or CO as he was known at his resort "Driftwood Lodge" located off Hwy 35 between Rosedale & Coboconk on the east side of Balsam Lake for many summers as the hostess. In the colder months she worked in Toronto. Now know as Driftwood Villa. Located at 44 degrees 37' 35.78N, 78 degrees 48' 23.45W. 1936-39 Manageress of Glen Eagles Manor & Riding Mistress in Scarborough owned by Henry Massie. Bea loved horses, and was a great rider, Had a good seat (Sat in the saddle well.) Writeup on Glen Eagles (Manor) Hotel – 1990 In 1931 Henry Massie purchased the land around the Glen Eagles. A two rut road running through the area in the 1930's later became known as Twyn Rivers Drive. What is today known as Sheppard Ave was known as the Lansing Cut-Off in the 1950's. When the through fare was constructed Massie sold 50 acres of the property. Commercial trucks and other vehicles used the route to bypass downtown Toronto to move between Kingston Rd (Hwy #2) and Young Street at Sheppard Ave - an area known then as "Old Lansing". By 1941 the Glen Eagles Manor owners received a liquor license and the house was used for a dining room and beer hall. Local residents of that time recall a large dance hall that was built prior to World War II. Local newspaper advertisements show the Glen Eagles as a popular spot until the dance hall burnt down many years before the Glen Eagles itself was destroyed by fire in 1990. Today the corner of Twyn Rivers and Sheppard Ave where the Glen Eagles once stood has been turned into a vista point for the Rouge Valley and is protected by the government as part of the Rouge Valley Conservation. SOURCE: of writeup on Glen Eagles http://www.scarboroughfirefighters.org/fires.htm 2013 Resorts she owned & operated from 1939-1948... 1939-26 June 1947 owned The Chateau Riveras, Coboconk, Ont."Gayest Spot in Town" (when gay meant FUN. Taken off the back of a post card). Located on the south side of the Gull River & up on the hill, over looking the town, on Rock St.. Location: 44 degrees 39' 32.23N, 78 Degrees 47' 45.52W. 1948 owned Oak Manor Lodge, later she renamed it to Moonlite Villa on Balsam Lake. Address was Fenelon Falls, Ontario. Located some wheres between Coboconk & Rosedale on Hwy 35. The 2 lodges where private homes when she brought them, then she built them into lodges which could accommodated over 100 guest in all. One year she over booked & had to rent rooms from the private sector around Coby to accommodate all of her quest. She slept in a “Very Small HOT Closet” up in the attic that summer, for she had rented out her bedroom as well. 1948-1949 she brought & ran the Coboconk Hotel & Paddie House (The Paddie House was & still is a restaurant & bar 2013) down town on the NW corner of Hwy 35 & Albert St. in Coboconk. North of Shields General Store, now Coboconk Home Hardware. Location: 44 degrees 39' 32,38N 78 degrees 47' 53.13W The Rosedale Restaurant & Motel... After marring Matt Furdal in 1949 a chef in Toronto, they brought 10 acres of land off Henry Massie fronting on the north side of Hwy 35 & Barker Rd, west to Goodman Rd & east to Trent Canal Rd. in Rosedale, Ontario. There they had Bea's brother's Bert & Cecil help them build a restaurant & motel for them which they ran till the early 1960's called the The Rosedale Restaurant & Motel. They where famous for their Foot Long Hotdog. In the winter it was dead, so Matt would go back to his old job at the Olympia Restaurant in Lindsay & Bea would go to Toronto & find work as a House Mother. They couldn't make ago of their marriage & separated in the late 1950's. They finally got a divorce in 1974. Property is located at 44 degrees 34' 07.72N, 79 degrees 47' 49.01W Moonwynk Studios & Maltese Dogs... After they separated Bea had her brother's Cecil & Burt help her turned the restaurant & motel unit into rooms & apartments, that she rented out long term. Bea used one of these as her home for years. Bea called this “Moonwynk Studios” where she raised her Maltese Dogs & wrote some of her books from. She always loved dogs, she had big ones & small ones over the years, but the Maltese where her money makers. She started to raise & sell them back in the 1940's. She always had at lease 2 with her where ever she traveled. She'd have up to 30 breeders at one time (1960's-80's). (We’d now call it a puppy mill), selling puppies to actress & actors in California & ever where else in Canada & the USA. I (Her nephew Don Outram often accompanied her on many trips to the Toronto International Air Port to ship a puppy out to someone). This was her only venture that she made money at over the years. Her friend Henry Massie backed her in all these ventures. Henry was in love with Bea & asked her to marry him many times, but she kept saying no. Once, while they where wintering in Florida she told me she almost said yes. She never took me why she didn't go through with it. He was a very wealthy man. Not like Matt & Cliff that she did marry. Olive Massie... After Henry Massie died in the mid 1960's. Bea took over the care of Olive Massie a spinster, who was in a wheelchair most of the time she lived with Bea in Rosedale for many years. For the first few years after Henry's death they still continued to spend the winter months in Florida together. Later on she had her brother's build her & Olive a home on the North East corner of her property. Bea lived here for a few years Bea couldn't look after Olive any more so in 1967 she had Olive's brother put her in a old age home in Bobcaygeon, where she died. Shortly after wards Bea moved back into her apartment in the old place & rented the house out. She was always tearing walls out & expanding her living quarters or making more rental space. She also tore out the middle of the old motel & kept the north end part as separate rental house. She built a carport on the front of her apartment, But it soon became a living room for a few years, then her & cliff's bedroom. That's where all her money went over the years. The last few years that she lived on the property, she lived in her house on the NE corner again. During the late winter of 1996 while still living in her home in Rosedale she fell & broke a hip while walking in from getting her mail on her driveway, Bea spent months in hospital in Lindsay, then she ending up in Extend a Care in Lindsay for the last few years of her life were she lost her hearing, then her eye site & finally got Alzheimer痴. Property located at 44 degrees 34' 10.30N, 78 degrees 47' 45.85W. Property... Bea sold off chunks of this land on Baker Rd. & Goodman Rd. & next to the Trent Canal Rd. plus all the land behind her over the years to pay her bills. When she died she still owned just over an acre of it fronting on to Highway 35 & Barker Rd, on which all of her rental homes where. Her niece Helen Outram-Simpkins inherited Bea's property when she died in 2004 at the age of 99 years & 6 weeks. Her father William “Bill” Phillips home... 1965 Bea & her sister Monetta Phillips-Outram brought the family home from their father William Bill'sestate & rented it out for a few years Then they had their brother's Cecil & Roy tear it down & build a 2 floor, 4 apartment house on the property. They sold it in the mid 1970. It had been in the family since 1902. Bill when brought the 2 last lots on the west end of Front Street, Coboconk, on the north side of the Gull River next to the town dock & swimming area & built his home fronting on the street and a barn/woodshed behind it all located on the east lot. This home burnt down in 1920, Bill & his boys build this one. It was a 2 floor home like the original one. When Bea was in Ontario, she tried to visit her father once a week & do any house work that needed done in between finding live in House Keepers for him. They never stayed very long. Location... 44degrees 39' 17.06" N, 78 Degrees 48" 06.00" W. Bea was a very hard worker, and she never let the problems of life get her down. But she just could not hang on too money. She'd buy a house & the first thing she would do was start renovations on it. Often she did them herself, if she was working else where then she hired her brother's Cecil & Roy to do it. She even had her nephew Don Outram working for her sometimes. Even both of her husband's Matt & Cliff worked hard for her & her renovations over the years. Then she'd rent it for a while, then sell it. Never making any money on any of these ventures. She brought at least 3 homes around Rosedale that I'm a where of. She was always pinching penny’s to pay Paul as the old say use to be. Big Bands of the 30's-40's... During the years she owned the lodges she had all the “Famous Big Jazz & Swing Dance Bands of the 30's & 40's” the likes of The Glen Miller Band, Benny Goodman Band, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, The Dorsey Brothers Band and many other's came & play for her guest & the town people each Saturday night during July & August. Quite often they set up on the dock or in the large band stand in town. Lots of dancing & fun. She condoned drinking, so had very little problems in this way with fights. Member of the Hotel Association of the Province of Ontario... SOURCE: Number 4948 This is to Certify that Miss Beatrice Phillips, owner of Oak Manor Lodge located on Balsam Lake, address was Fenelon Falls, Ontario, Canada is a Member in Good Standing until December 31st., 1948. Hotel Association of the Province of Ontario signed President W. Ward Mankle Manager Director Ralf J. Haffey. House Mother... 1939 -1960's During the colder months after running her lodges she would worked for Mr. Henry Massie, owner of Massie Investment & Real State Brokerage in Toronto until his death, as House Mother, helping to raise his children Olive and Bill Massie. His wife die just after Olive was born. Henry owned a home in Fort Lauderdale on the beach, which now belongs to his son Bill & family. They use to spend months down there every winter. Bea would send post cards to all of her nieces & nephews while there. Henry also owned a lot of land on south end of Balsam Lake & Hwy 35. She was also House Mother to Barbara Anne Scott the famous figure skater for a couple of years, during the cooler months after she closed up her lodge for the winter in the 1940's in Toronto. Cherished as Canada's Sweetheart, Scott and American Dick Button became the first non-European figure skaters to win Olympic titles, earning their gold medals on the outdoor ice at the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. 1964-1966 she worked for Mr. Charles Hoar part owner of Hoar Transport Ltd. Oshawa, then started his own company “Roadway Transport Ltd. of Toronto”, (hauling new GMC cars from the plant in Oshawa all over North America) till his death in 1966 as House Mother, helped raise his 2 children. The home was built like a big castle some where's in Toronto. Don Outram & his mother Monetta were only there once, the first & only time they met Bea's first child Lorna. Known as a Very Classie Dresser... Bea was always a classie dresser. She like to look the Lady. She was always a very good looking woman of slight build. She knew a lot of the well to do people in Toronto, plus publications. She always belonged to the Conservative Party of Canada. The Grand Ball... On one occasion she was invited to attended a Grand Ball at the Royal York in Toronto put on by Raymond Massey. She had nothing to wear, so going to her closet she took out the pretties, fancies night grown she owned. Put it on & off to the Ball she went. She said “She was the best dressed lady there. The hit of the Ball.” She loved to dance. There's a picture or two of her dancing at that Ball, in this grown, I think my sister Helen Outram-Simpkins has one. Health... Cancer on her noise, Radium Treatment.... 1943 she got cancer on her noise. She spent 6 months in St. Margret痴 Hospital in Toronto. She was the first person to receive Radium Treatment in Ontario. They removed her noise & gave her a new one. One day a nurse was removing the bandages & pulled off the left side nodule on the bottom side of her noise. She never had it put back on again. She never had cancer again either. After having this done, she could not be around people who smoked for very long, it caused her noise to seal shut. She never smoked or drank alcohol in her life. She loved her tea. Bea had TB the late 1950's & was in a Toronto Hospital for months. She was very sick. Around the time her and Matt where separating. Radio Host... Sometime during the 1940s-50's Bea had a weekly radio talk show on CKLY 910 Lindsay. She promoted Coboconk & area, by interviewing guest from the area while playing her favorite music in the back ground. Air Escort Service Mid 1960's to 80's Bea operated a business called: "Air Escort Service" personalized Wheel chair patients our specialties B. Brown 1-705-887-2047 Rosedale, Ontario. Bea had a saying.. Spend money to make money.., she spent far more than she ever made. She was always in debt. I don't think she made any money at this venture ether. SOURCE: Off her business card. Don Outram has one. Religion... Bea was baptized in the Coboconk Christ Church, later renamed as the Coboconk Methodist Church, in 1925 the congregations of the Presbyterian & the Methodist Church's combined and renamed their new church "The United Church Of Canada" (the original church building is located on the south side of the Gull River & is still a church 2011). In the early 1960's Bea change her religion to the Christian Science Church, Olive Massie belonged to this church. I don't think she ever attended any of their meetings in Toronto, but she sent any extra money that she had over the years to them. Books she wrote... Bea took a writing coarse from California over many years, passing it with a very high mark. She wrote a screen play, she sent it into a agent who after while said “it got lost in Hollywood”. I don't know where the original manuscript got too. She wrote poems & short stories & had them published, "Moonwynks' Maltese Bow-Wows & their friends" 1978 Wrote & published a book ., "Rosedale on Parade and The Kawartha District". Plus a couple more paper backs. She also a wrote a couple of stories about Coboconk for Readers Digest. (I lost my copies of her books in our house fire in 2007 along with many pictures, letters etc of hers.) Bea was married 4 times: 1st to ? Smithe of Toronto in1934, they had a daughter Lorna Smithe b.1936 in Toronto. Bea gave their baby up for adoption soon after their separation so she told me. Years later Lorna found Bea. I (Don Outram) met her once in Toronto while Bea was working for Mr. Charles Hoar. She died shortly after wards of a drug over dose in 1966. 2nd to Wylfred Leslie Hamilton Phillips of Yonkers, N.Y. U.S.A. In 1946 in Toronto. Trade: Salesman for his father's drug company in New York City, U.S.A. Their Marriage Certificate was never Registered. Leslie as he was known kept the wedding a secret, it was his wish at the time. He took the marriage certificate, thinking he'd need it to bring his wife Beatrice to the U.S.A., but somehow it got lost or disappeared in Toronto. They had a daughter named Leslie Carol Phillips b.1947. SOURCE: Death Notice in Florida Newspaper; PHILLIPS. Wylfred Leslie Hamilton. Suddenly at St. Peterburgh, Florida, U.S.A. on the 18th Jan 1948 at the age 46, beloved husband of Beatrice Phillips, Toronto. Father of Leslie Carol and dear brother of Dadhne, Mrs. Hammont Tate, Palm Beach, Florida & New York. Leslie as he was known as, was ran over by a car in Florida. After Leslie's death, Bea gave their daughter Leslie up for adoption to Mr. & Mrs. Melville J. Abrams who lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada & later Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Then immigrated to California, U.S.A. later. Letter from her daughter Leslie... In 1978 her daughter Leslie found letters between her step-mother & Bea that they had exchanged over the years in her adopted mother's bed room. Leslie wrote her birth mother Bea Phillips in Rosedale, Victoria Co., Ontario, Canada to invite her to her graduation & to meet her for the first time. Bea wrote her back, that she was sorry that she could not attend it. Later while Leslie & her adopted parents where visiting family in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Leslie almost caught a bus up to Fenelon Falls to find Bea, but never did. Her older 2 adopted brothers stopped her. They finally met when Bea & her niece Helen Outram-Simpkins visited her in 1981 at her home in Hemet, California, U.S.A. 92343 This was the only time they met. 3rd.. Matthew “Matt” Furdal b. Detroit, Michigan, USA (Parents where Polish) m. 22 December 1949 in Toronto Trade: A chef Separated: abt late 1950's Divorced: 1974 No Children SOURCE: Certificate of Marriage, This is to Certify that, on the 22 day of December A.D. 1949, at Toronto in the Province of Ontario, I solemnize the Marriage of Matthew Furdal of Detroit, Mich., U.S.A. and Beatrice Phillips under Marriage License No. P 14319 issued on the ninth day of December A.D. 1949 Witnesses: signature of Myrtle L. Hewer & Edward J. Hewer, signature of person solemnize marriage J.H.A. Warr address 65A Benlamond Ave., Toronto, United Church Registration Certificate Number 15007 4th Clifford Cliff Brown (born in Arnprior, Ontario) m. 18 August 1976 in Braeside (near Arnprior) Trade: Car Mechanic & worked for a garage on the corner of Highway 121 & Helen St., Fenelon Falls, before & during the time they where married till his death at their home in bed on 25 December 1988. SOURCE: Certificate of Marriage: Clifford Gerald Brown of Arnprior, Ont. on 19 August 1972 at Braeside United Church Braeside , (near Arnprior), Ontario, Canada K0A 1G0 License # W 139487 by C. Earl Taft Clergyman's Registration Certificate No. 26366 Here's an interesting hand written Letter that Bea received in regards to Leslie's death... from Elissa i-Abrams, her only bridesmaid at their wedding dated 1978-80 (Sometime after receiving it Bea typed it out. It was in quite bad shape by the time she gave it to Don Outram before her fall in 1996.) My dear Bea- It seems ages since I was your only bridesmaid, & I have very much regretted that your wedding had to be kept so secret-& never registered, but it was Leslie's wish at the time. He took the marriage certificate, thinking he'd need it when he would bring you to U.S. to live, but somehow it got lost or disappeared. Les was very dear to my sister Vivian and me, especially to Vic. since she was somewhat compassionate from a bout with polio in her teens. Nevertheless, she worshiped him who was always so very kind & charming. He promised our Dad on his death-bed that he would always look after Vivian's welfare, which in turn, was to make her insanely possessive. A probable reason for his not marring earlier. Dad & Les were old friends. Then Leslie met You! He told me all about you, that you were so understanding, possessing a total and enviable serenity. He said that you were everything he could possibly have desired. He tried on several occasions to discuss this with Vivian, and each time she threatened to kill herself. I do know that you thought Vivian was Les's common-law, but knowing Les that just couldn't be so. We had lots of talks about you Dear, and he asked me if there wasn't some solution to his problem where Vivian was concerned but we couldn't see any. I felt so sorry for the dear man. When you became pregnant he said how elated that you both were but you wished the baby to be born a Canadian. Les went to spend Christmas with you & was there during your terrible ordeal. He told me that your condition had become toxic & the doctor ordered an induction. The baby should have been born a month later and it was a toss-up if either of you could be saved. When Les returned here, he threw his arms around me, and said, Elissa, she's a beautiful baby. I'm a daddy to our little daughter. We're calling her Leslie Carol (born 23 December 1947 Toronto, Ontario) Our little one is the & most exquisite Christmas present I've ever had. Bea is delighted and happy too. After Les returned from Canada and seeing you both, he suggested that he take Vivian and me for a drive and have dinner somewhere, that perhaps the three of us could talk the matter over. He told me that he just had to get matters settled where Vivian was concerned, that he would bring his two little Canuckie girls (Bea & Leslie) to his country. While in the car Leslie brought up his marriage which was then over a year ago, and the baby. Vic screamed, "I knew it. If it's a boy you can bring him here to us." She then opened her bag and brought out the missing wedding certificate and ripped it to sheds. We both tried to calm her. Leslie opened the door on his side to get out when Vivian in a mad rage pushed him and he fell under the wheels of an on-coming car, I ran to him and held him in my arms. He tried to tell me " my dar--lings-Can-a-da I love- them dear." and he was gone. It was so sudden, and my poor Vivian nearly went out of her mind with remorse. She was never the same after. I tried to locate you in Florida but couldn't get you. I sent the newspaper clipping of Les's passing to you. When we had lunch together sometime later I saw how very ill you were. It nearly broke my heart & I was so helpless to do anything for you Dear. As I told you Les had very little savings. He'd spent a lot of his money trying to get help and treatments for Viv. That was before he met you, Dear. I told you all of this while we were having lunch that day, but it seemed that you were in a daze. I felt that you hadn't absorbed my information, and then too, I was terribly anxious that you wouldn't tell anyone the cause of Leslie's untimely passing. The authorities would have put Vivian away, and I couldn't bear any more. Your last letter told me that you had TB and were in a Northern San, that you'd married again and it hadn't turned out too good. (Matthew Furdale 1949-1970). I remember you said that you had put "widow" on your marriage application and that your fiance hadn't believed it and treated you badly. That owing to TB you had had to let your little one be adopted and how heart breaking it had been. It seems the doctors hadn't given you much hopes of recovery. Perhaps the adoption was for the best, but I could hardly read your letter through my tears. And you did survive-thank God. When you read this I will have departed this life. Dr. Paul has given me less than two weeks to live, and he has promised to mail this at that time. Now that they are both gone and I am to follow soon, it is my dying prayer that I have your forgiveness, and having know you, it will be so. May God in His mercy condone my weaknesses and bless you and your little gil-Lesley Carol... I am so tired and this had to be told, knowing how you had endured in silence this very grave injustice. I trust I have cleared up this very regrettable situation for you and yours... Bye bye Dear Elissa P.S. I'm posting this letter of my late patient, Elissa, to you as promised. She has let me read it and I'm truly sorry. The poor dear suffered intensely and had shrunk to a shadow. Her release was a blessing. I would advise you to type this as it is almost illegible and should be given to your daughter Lesley Carol. Vivian did show me your wedding certificate and said "Lesley belonged to her." She was a schizophrenic. I sincerely trust that this will clear up any misunderstandings you have so nobly faced up to over these more than thirty years. Now that both Vivian and Elissa are gone I see no harm can be done. Elissa was so afraid that the authorities would take Vivian away from her because of Vic's part and cause of the fatal accident - and they would have too. May God bless you both and keep you happy, Elissa's Dr. Paul P.S. I'm wondering if our dear Elissa ever told you we were married, but there again Vivian came between us, and I just couldn't take her Villainous ways. I didn't know until after Vic's passing, that she had been directly responsible for Les's demise. However, after Vivian passed away, Elissa and I came back together again and lived happily. Elissa was so dear and a real Sweetheart to me. p. SOURCE: Letter to Beatrice Phillips Rosedale Ontario, Canada (now Don Outram has it.) SOURCE: Herself to nephew Don Outram 13012 CR 503 Tory Hill Ontario Canada K0L 2Y0 [email protected] updated 2011. Since our home burnt to the ground in march 2007 I don't know what I still have that was Bea's. |
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