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Note: She was brought up to dislike Catholics. She moved west at age 12, in about 1906 due to her father's sickness. In Alberta she went to Normal School (teachers' college) and taught school at age 16. To get to school she had to ride a horse. There she had to board because she was away from the Sproule farm. She also taught Sunday school. Two of her students were Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada, and his brother. She had a toothache and went in to Red Deer, where Dr. Evans was the dentist. They soon fell in love. He wanted to move back to Toronto, but she said if he did, she would not marry. But he went back, and he knew that she would be visiting some aunts in Cleveland. So then he met her in Cleveland and they got married around Labour Day weekend by the Rev. William Gaston. At the time of her wedding at age 19 she was listed as a teacher resident at 10618 Everton Ave. in Cleveland. (Fred was listed as a dentist from Detroit, age 34.) She had two aunts in Cleveland. She went to the University of Toronto to get a license. She boarded with her aunt and uncle who lived near the university. She also went to technical school (or perhaps this was the same thing as the U of T). After she and her husband lived in Toronto for a while, they went to Hamilton one year after her graduation. She didn't like Hamilton because it was too hot and so she went to Kingsville, where Betty was born. After a year there they went to Walkerville in 1916, where Barbara was born. In 1923 they went to Toronto and had a house on Glengowan Rd. Then in 1925 they went back to Walkerville because the man who had bought her husband's practice wasn't paying rent. She built the Grand Bend cottage in 1948. She took her sister Edna around the world in the 1960s. She was a good pianist.
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