Notable needs connecting NB Lt Gov George Stanley. [closed]

Question

This is the man that designed the flag of Canada.  A WW2 vet, A Companion of the Order of Canada and a Lt Gov of NB.  

I've added his immediate family except for the living.  If anyone wants to improve this profile or help connecting him to the tree, please feel free.  Although they are New Brunswickers in later life, he was from Alberta and his wife was from Quebec.

Answer 1

I think this is his mother's mother but needs more research

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pickard-1054  (connected)

Comments

You're probably right.  The name in the census is clearly Adelia, not Adina as in the index. The 1881 census has Richard and Elizabeth Lillywhite but the 4 year old daughter is named Rachel.  That's a bit of a stretch.  It's  very uncommon name.

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There was a John Stanley of the right age also in Oxford.  Parents were Timothy and Betsy. http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148162-00597

Probably this family:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanley-7628

Is John Henry Stanley and John Millman Stanley the same person?

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This one's more likely. Middle initial is H.  http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1891&op=img&id=30953_148130-00248

There are 2 other John Stanleys age 15 in 1891.

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Yes, even the well sourced family trees on Ancestry seem to question Rachel on the 1881 Census.

Answer 2

Ancestry trees have John Henry Stanley parents being

George Francis Gilman Stanley b: 23 Dec 1842 Beckwith, Ontario d: 12 Jan 1920 FindAGrave 149424846

and Christina Brown b: 27 May 1850  d: 17 May 1926 Sask

Comments

That's consistent with my second census link.

Answer 3

According to an essay he wrote about his family, his mother was related to the Lillywhite crickters, but I haven't found the connection (https://books.google.ca/books?id=qa2xw66h2MUC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=%22Della+Lillywhite%22+Stanley&source=bl&ots=PcSSWrghdL&sig=ACfU3U1MkGCjvY2wMsUK8DhP6JJisV02JQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi12ZTk3qXgAhVus1kKHY61A0gQ6AEwB3oECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Della%20Lillywhite%22&f=false):

William Lillywhite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lillywhite

Fred Lillywhite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lillywhite

John Lillywhite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lillywhite

Answer 4

Added some family and a bunch of census links.

This was interesting, too:

"Swords and Ploughshares: War and Agriculture in Western Canada", edited by R. C. Macleod. Chapter: "The Making of an Historian" by George F. G. Stanley.