Name: Tim's Complete Family 12

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. William James STRACHAN: Birth: 6 NOV 1891 in Rossport, Ontario, Canada. Death: 17 MAY 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  2. John Alexander "Jack" STRACHAN: Birth: 31 AUG 1894 in Nipigon, Ontario, Canada. Death: 24 SEP 1962 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada {?]

  3. Arthur Norman STRACHAN: Birth: 23 JAN 1895 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Death: 7 JUL 1909

  4. Donald Melvin STRACHAN: Birth: 26 JAN 1897 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Death: 19 SEP 1971 in Corona, Riverside County, California

  5. Russell Neilly STRACHAN: Birth: 11 SEP 1898 in Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada. Death: 29 OCT 1918 in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada


Sources
1. Title:   1891 Canadian Census, District 46 Western Algoma, Subdistrict 7 Schreiber
2. Title:   Ontario Marriage Records, District of Thunder Bay, Division of Port Arthur
3. Title:   "District Resident 50 Years Bella Strachan Dies"
4. Title:   Registration of Death
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5. Title:   Registration of Death
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6. Title:   Registration of Death
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7. Title:   Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928

Notes
a. Note:   N58 Text of Obituary (Lakehead Cities News Chronicle; July 18, 1947)
 A resident of the Lakehead for the past 50 years, Mrs. Bella Strachan, 77, Suite 16 Dyke Block, Fort William, died in hospital there this morning. Although in ailing health for some time Mrs Strachan's death was unexpected.
 Born in Kincardine, Ont., July 12, 1870, she was the daughter of the late Donald and Annie McLeod. Her family moved to Bruce Mines, where she received her education. She later moved to the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. Cunningham, at Rossport, where they operated a hotel.
 Married to John Strachan in St. Paul's Church, Port Arthur in 1891 the couple lived at Rossport, Schreiber, and Nipigon, moving to Port Arthur in 1897. Her husband, employed on the C.P.R. in the Bridge and Building Department, predeceased her in 1912 at Port Arthur.
 Mrs. Strachan had been living in Fort William for the past 30 years.
 Surviving are two sons, William J. Strachan, 324 South Marks, Street, and John A. Strachan, 240 North Syndicate Avenue. Three sons, Russell, Melvin [emphasis added], and Arthur, predeceased her.
 Grandchildren are Mrs. John Cooke, 125 Bethune Street, Fort William; Eleanor and Ruth Strachan of St. Vital, Man., and Sybil, Billy, and Margaret Strachan, Fort William. Mrs. Lillian Carson, 529 Red River Road, Port Arthur, is a niece.
 Mrs. Strachan was of member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church and of Greenstone Rebekah Lodge.
 The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 1:45 from the chapel, 236 South Syndicate Avenue to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Fort William for service at 2 o'clock. Rev. H. ? Rice, First Baptist Church will officiate. Interment will be in the family plot, Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur.
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  One of Bella's sister married a Carson(?), another married a Cunningham, another married a Monroe. (From Sybil Grace, June 2012). A June Monroe was chief librarian in St. Catharines in 1970; had been in National Library.
b. Note:   Presbyterian. Ceremony performed by Rev. William Nielly. Witnesses: Thomas J. Armstrong and Lizzie White.

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