Born in Manitoba, Canada
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Wilfred Bruce Powers
— married
6 Mar 1912 in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada
Died
at about age 81
in Trenton, Hastings, Ontario, Canada [uncertain]
[uncertain]Profile last modified
| Created 17 Aug 2022
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Biography
Laura Grace Alice Arnett, the daughter of traveller Louis Robert Arnett and Grace McGee, was born in Manitoba[1] in 1892.[2] On March 6, 1912, at Toronto's Parkdale Presbyterian Church, she married grain merchant Wilfred Bruce Powers (1887-aft.1921).[3] By 1921, Laura and Wilfred had returned to his hometown of Trenton, where they lived on Dundas St. E. with their daughters Audrey and Carol.[1] (Another daughter Adrienne was to follow.)[4]
They were living in Toronto at the time of their 40th wedding anniversary in March 1952 (Laura wrote, in a letter to cousin Mabel Ray (Adam) Ireland (1886-1958) back in Trenton, "My whole aim is to get out of the City. I can't stand it.") and were still there when Wilf celebrated his 70th birthday in January 1957.[4] Laura died in 1973 and was buried in Trenton's Mount Evergreen Cemetery.[2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "1921 Census of Canada", Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 64; Census Place: 64, Hastings West, Ontario; Page Number: 5; Line Number: 44, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 8991 #749752 (accessed 18 July 2022)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Find a Grave (has image), Find A Grave: Memorial #241761767 (accessed 17 August 2022), Memorial page for Laura Grace Alice Arnett Powers (1892-1973), citing Mount Evergreen Cemetery, Trenton, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; Maintained by Richard Hill (contributor 50436836).
- ↑ "Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1938", Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928; Reel: 238, Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry ca Record 7921 #3203317 (accessed 18 July 2022)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 13 Mar 1952 & 16 Jan 1957 letters from Laura Grace Alice (Arnett) Powers (1892-1973) to Mabel Ray (Adam) Ireland (1886-1958) in possession of Richard Hill
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