Can You Help Edith (Coe) Warren? Canadian History, Alberta Project and Col. PRoW.

Question

July 1st is Canada Day

1 juillet est Fête du Canada.

In commemoration, the Canadian History Project, the Alberta Project and the Collaborative Profile of the week present

Edith Emma (Coe) Warren (1863-1934)

The first school teacher in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Edith has a bio. This is a great opportunity to add some depth to her profile.

 

Her profile needs parents and siblings added. They were from England. A British genealogist would be helpful with this.

 

Edith and her family are not yet connected to the Global Tree. Can she be connected?

 

What else can we find out about the school she taught in?

 

Is there a public domain photo?

 

Can we find an exact date and place for her marriage to Falkland Warren?

 

Is there a cemeterist in Calgary, who could we get a photograph of her gravestone at the Huntsville Cemetery in Iron Springs?

 

As always, when you work on some aspect of the profile of the week, please post an answer here so the question stays fresh and we don't duplicate work.

 

The Alberta Project

Canadian History Project

 

The project covers the province of Alberta from 1905 to present day, and the Alberta and Athabasca districts of the Northwest Territories from 1882 to 1905.

 

                                 

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Research leads (i.e. unsourced info) on some additional family (siblings, great grandparents) that do not have profiles can be found here: http://historyofsuffolk.co.uk/cosford/acton/d15.html#P32880 - perhaps this can help as a start point for the goal of 'connecting her to the global tree'

Answer 1

Based on the bio for father James Ernest Coe this looks like the arrival of Edith and family in Canada: link

The record is the arrival of an Edith Coe, age 20, sailing from London on 13 October 1883 aboard the S/S Scotland, arriving at Quebec on 30 October 1883.

Other family members of the Edith Coe in this record and their reported ages are: James, age 48; Elizabeth, age 46; Daisy, Age 11; and Ruby, age 9.

 

Answer 2

I live in Calgary Alberta about three hours from Lethbridge.

 

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_HatCached

Medicine Hat is a city of 61,180 people in southeast Alberta, Canada. It is approximately 169 km (105 mi) east of Lethbridge and 295 km (183 mi) southeast of Calgary.

 

Medicine Hat News April 8 1961

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Text:	"...’s liking for Picture Butte and his reasims arc delightfully exposed. For the Alberta farm son of a North West Mounted Police father. Const. Falkland Warren and an English lass moiher, Edith (Coe) W'arren..."
Date:	Apr 8 1961
Publication:	Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

 

Comments

Hmm. That's a little far for a quick picture.

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Anybody with a subscription to NewspaperArchive.com?

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I will ask around and see if someone I know have friends in Lethbridge.

Answer 3

It seems Edith Emma Coe was in the newspapers a lot.

The Lethbridge Herald Nov 23 1950

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Text:	".... The teacher then was Miss EdithEmmaCoe, who later became Mrs. Falkland Warren. Mr. Warren was a member of the NW.MP., "K" division At Wednesday afternoon's formal opening of the Leth- bridge Collegiate..."
Date:	Nov 23 1950
Publication:	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

 

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Text:	"..., Jeanne, living in Edmonton and one son, James, residing in Calgary. They have seven grandchildren. Mrs. Gundrcd Harvie's moth- er, Mrs. Falkland Warren (Miss EdithEmmaCoe) was Leth- brldge's first..."
Date:	Feb 1 1964
Publication:	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

 

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Text:	"... at four other institutions elsewhere in the province. Did you know? The first school teacher in Lethbridge, in 1885, was EdithEmmaCoe (later Mrs. Falkland who taught the three Rs to fewer than a dozen..."
Date:	Sep 3 1991
Publication:	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

 

 

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Text:	"... been found in Legacy Ridge along EdithEmmaCoe Rd. Please call . •Tucker, a four-year-old all-white Jack Russell with a light brown spot over his left eye and right ear, went missing Feb, 9..."
Date:	Feb 26 2011
Publication:	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

 

Answer 4

So, this brings up a question (at least in my mind) ... right now all of the non-political categories in the Alberta sub-project just have folks that were born in Alberta.  Ms. Warren was born in NWT.  Should I add a category something like 'Famous people who passed through Alberta' or 'Alberta Transplants' or 'Alberta Adoptions', etc. ... do the other Canadian Province sub-projects do this?  Thanks.

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I am not an expert on categories, nor canadian provinces. However, for example Category: New Haven, Connecticut, can contain anyone who was born there, died there or lived there.

Answer 5

I guess it was her brothers idea to move to Canada.

Did you notice in the other newspaper article her husband was   North West Mounted Policeman.

 

The Lethbridge Herald

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Text:	"... parliament. When her brother Fmie moved to Canada for health reasons, he urged his family to move here, too. The fa mily setfed in Fort Macfeod, where EdithEmmaCoe started a private school..."
Date:	Jan 29 2005
Publication:	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

 

 

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Text:	"... dwellings and a request for a front setback waiver for all the dwellings Small Parcel Low Density Residential 558 EdithEmmaCoe Road to construct single detached dwellings and a request for a front setback..."
Date:	Aug 19 2006
Publication:	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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Text:	"... coal mining settlement known as Even at that formal classroom education was underway in the In early winter a young English woman named EdithEmmaCoe began teaching the three Rs to fewer than a dozen..."
Date:	June 20 2006
Publication:	Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

 

Answer 6

Sister Inlaw ???

Isabel F Coe

Canada Census, 1916

Name:	Isabel F Coe
Event Type:	Census
Event Date:	1916
Event Place:	Alberta, Canada
Gender:	Female
Age:	35
Marital Status:	Married
Ethnicity:	English
Relationship to Head of Household:	Wife
Birthplace:	England
Birth Year (Estimated):	1881
Immigration Year:	1906
Township:	11
Province:	Alberta
District Number:	40 Medicine Hat
Sub-District Number:	13
Enumeration District:	11
Page:	7
Affiliate Film Number:	T-21953

Household	Role	Gender	Age	Birthplace
Alonza G Coe	Self	M	32y	England
Isabel F Coe	Wife	F	35y	England
Kenneth G Coe	Son	M	7y	Canada
Ougust Miller	Help	M	60y	Germany

Family Number: 46 , Line Number: 29 , Digital Folder Number: 004363982 , Image Number: 00086

 

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM54-P7B

 

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KM54-P71

Answer 7

I've created a profile for Emma's father, James Coe.

Comments

Thank you very much.

Answer 8

I looked at wikimedia commons and elsewhere for a photo. No luck. There's a photo at Find a grave, but we can just link to that. I found a picture, but it was "buy a copy from us", and now i've lost it anyway.

Comments

Was it one of the photos from the Galt Museum?

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The Galt Museum and Archives in Lethbridge publishes photos without copyright restrictions to The Commons on Flickr. The museum's photostream is down right now (Flickr keeps giving me an error), but I'll keep checking on it to see if there are any images we can use.

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It was from the Glenbow museum here

I got brilliant and looked in my history.

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The Galt Museum has a lot of beautiful photos in their Flickr stream, but nothing relevant to this profile. Oh well.

Answer 9

Good old 'Find a Grave' ... I added her mother and put in Source links to Find a grave for her, her mother and father.  There are links there for some of her siblings as well ...  I'll look at those tomorrow unless someone else jumps in there beforehand!

Also note that there was text in her Biography that seem to halt further display of entries ... well at least on my browser!!  I moved that to the bottom for now.

Oh, and one more thing ... when I entered stuff for her mother from Find A Grave, she was listed as Elizabeth Tiffen Coe ... I assumed that Tiffen was her LNAB and not her middle name.

Update: it's tomorrow and I've added her siblings as listed in her father's find a grave entry.  Also added her paternal grand parents from links in the same place.

Comments

I took a look at the note, closed the ref tag, and moved it back. Can you take another look and let me know if it's showing up correctly in your browser? Thanks!

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The minute I saw your message, I knew exactly what I'd done wrong - forgot to close the ref statement. But Erin beat me to it. Thank you.

And Bob thank you for adding her mom

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Yep, Erin, looks good ... I should have spotted that fix but I'm not much of a footnote user.

Answer 10

I'm on mobile and can't check myself but her husband served in the Lord Strathcona Horse in the Boer War - maybe there is something about his next of kin in his service files? Also in one of the other threads ongoing about Edith I suggested that perhaps someone could take a second pass of her husband's NWMP service files and see if I missed any mention of his marriage in that file.

Comments

I've looked at the St. Horse records for Falkland. I suspect he may already have been "estranged from his wife" in 1899, because he lists his father by name as primary next of kin. Then lists "wife" in Lethbridge. Interesting, there's nowhere in the documents that lists his residence.

The Canada Archives has some great stuff.