PART EIGHTY-TWO

The Toronto (Ontario) Collett Family From Cheltenham in England

Issued in January 2024

William Collett [82N1] was born in Gloucestershire around 1810 who, by 1841, was a married man with two sons and a daughter who was living on Gloucester Road in Cheltenham. William and his wife, the former Dedemiah Prout, daughter of Emanuel and Mary Prout, both had a rounded age of 30, while their three children were Alfred aged five, James who was three, and Emma who was only a few months old. Every member of the household, except Alfred, had been born within the County of Gloucestershire. Four more children were added to the family during the next decade with William from Rodborough and his wife Dedemia from Nympsfield in Gloucestershire, recorded at Gloucester (Gloster) Road in the Alstone area of Cheltenham in 1851. That year William was a farmer of 24 acres who was 41, and his wife was 40 and had been baptised at Nympsfield on 10^th June 1810 as Dedemiah Prout. Just over one month earlier, Dedemia had given birth to the couple’s last child Joseph, whose birth was register of Cheltenham (Ref. xi 229) during the first quarter of the year. Upon his death in Canada in 1929, Joseph’s date of birth was recorded in error as 27^th February 1852, rather than 1851. The remainder of the family in 1851 comprised Alfred who was 15, James who was 12, Emma who was 10, William who was seven, John who was five, and Charles who was two years of age. Although the eldest son had been born in Canada, both he and brother James died there not long after the family had sailed across the Atlantic during 1852.

The next census, after the family had settled in York Township, Toronto in the County of York, Ontario, was conducted in 1861 by which time William and Dedemia were managing a boarding house there, having to clients with them that day. They also had just their three youngest children still living with them, John who was 15, Charles who was 13, and Joseph who was 10. Four years after that day William Collett, born in England during 1809, died in Toronto on 13^th June 1865 and was buried at the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery & Crematorium on 16^th June 1865 at the age of 56, the cause of death inflammation. He was buried in Plot 49 owned by Mr Collett, with the same grave used on 15^th June 1865 to bury the bodies of his sons Alfred and James, which had been ‘received from Pottersfield’.

No record of any member of the family has been found within the census details for 1871, while ten years later Dedemia Collett was a widow aged 70 who had living with her at Toronto, on the day of the census in 1881, her four sons William who was 38 and a carpenter, John who was 35 and a waggon maker, Charles who was 33 and a carriage maker, and Joseph who was 30 and a painter, all of them working at a railway shop. John was the only one who was married, with sons Charles and Joseph subsequently married two sisters within a few years of each other. In addition to her immediate family, Dedemia also had staying at the house with her, her grandson Alfred McClean aged 18 and another painter and a child of married daughter Emma. Completing the household was 18-year-old Joseph Chambers a blacksmith from England.

82O1 – Alfred Collett was born in 1836 at Toronto, Ontario

82O2 – James Collett was born in 1838 at Slimbridge

82O3 – Emma Collett was born in 1841 at Cheltenham

82O4 – William Collett was born in 1843 at Cheltenham

82O5 – John Collett was born in 1845 at Cheltenham

82O6 – Charles Collett was born in 1849 at Cheltenham

82O7 – Joseph Collett was born in 1851 at Cheltenham

Alfred Collett [82O1] was born at Toronto in Canada during 1836, the first-born child of Willam Collett and Dedemia Prout, both of whom were born at Gloucestershire in England, where Alfred’s six younger siblings were born and initially raised. It was at Gloucester Road in Cheltenham that he was living with his family in 1841 at the age of five. After a further ten years, and with the family still residing at Gloucester Road within the Alstone area of Cheltenham, Alfred Collett from Ontario was 15 in 1851. However, it was during the following year that his parents took the whole family back to Canada, where they were living in the latter months of the year when first Alfred’s younger brother James (below) died at Yorkville in Toronto, and was followed by the premature death of Alfred on 30^th August 1854 at Toronto at the age of nineteen. He was buried that same day when the burial record also confirmed that Alfred had been born in Toronto, that he was the son of William Collett, when the cause of his demise was bilious fever. When his father died and was buried at the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery & Crematorium on 16^th June 1865, the same grave was used the previous day to re-bury the bodies of Alfred and his brother James (below).

James Collett [82O2] was born at Slimbridge to the west of Stroud in 1838 with his birth registered at nearby Dursley (Ref. xi 282) during the last three months of that year. He was the second child of William and Dedemia Collett who were both born within that particular area of South Gloucestershire. Very shortly after he was born his family settled at Gloucester Road in Cheltenham where his five younger siblings were born over the next twelve years, with James being three years of age in the census of 1841, and again in 1851 when he was 12 years old. On that later date, he and his completed family were living at Gloucester Road in the Alstone area of Cheltenham. Almost immediately after that census day the family emigrated to Canada where, on 4^th November 1852, 14-year-old James Collett from England and the son of William Collett, died at Yorkville, Toronto, and was buried there the following day. The cause of death was inflammation of the lungs. Likewise, as mentioned above, James’ body was re-buried with his brother Alfred at the Toronto Necropolis Cemetery & Crematorium on 15^th June 1865, with their father’s body also laid to rest on the following day. The grave in question was owned by Mr Collett who, it is assumed, was in fact their father William.

Emma Collett [82O3] was born at Gloucester Road in Cheltenham on 29^th December 1840, when her birth was registered at Cheltenham (Ref. xi 213) during the first quarter of 1841. It was also at Gloucester Road that she was living with her parents in 1841 and 1851, by which time she was ten years of age. She was the only daughter amongst six sons of William Collett and Dedemia Prout who, just after 1851, returned to Ontario in Canada where Emma’s eldest brother Alfred had been born. It was at Yorkville, Toronto in Ontario that Emma Collett from Cheltenham married Donald Campbell McClean from Glengarry County in Ontario on 18^th September 1860. The bride was 19 and confirmed as the daughter of William and Dedemia Collett, with the groom being 27 and the son of Hector and Sarah McClean. Not long after their wedding day, Emma presented Donald with a son Hector McClean who was 71 when he died at Toronto on 30^th December 1931. Their second son was Alfred McClean and in 1881 he was living with Emma’s widowed elderly mother in Toronto, where he was working at a local railway shop with Emma’s younger brothers.

Another son Malcolm A McClean was added to their family in 1872 at Cannington in Ontario, and he passed away aged 44 in Toronto on 18^th September 1916. After eighteen years together, Emma gave birth to twins, their son Duncan McClean and daughter Emma Donalda McClean born at Brock in Ontario on 14^th August 1878, when their parents were confirmed at Donald Campbell McClean, a carriage maker, and Emma Collett. The couple’s final child was Andrew Dixon McClean who was born in 1881 who, on 31^st July 1905 married Annie Harker who was 23 and the daughter of Fred Harker and Annie Baker.

The death of Emma Collett McClean took place at Toronto on 17^th January 1926 and was recorded at the County of York, when her parents were confirmed as William Collett and Dedemia Prout. The same record of her passing made reference to the fact she was born at Cheltenham in England on 29^th December 1840, and was residing at 31 Edna Avenue in Toronto where she died, and was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on 19^th January 1926. The cause of death was myocarditis and enlarged liver.

William Collett [82O4] was born on 24^th September 1843 at Gloucester Road in Cheltenham, where his birth was registered (Ref. xi 212) during the last three months of that year. He was another son of William and Dedemia Collett and was seven years old in 1851 when he and his family was still living at Gloucester Road in Alstone, Cheltenham. By 1852 the family was living at Yorkville in Toronto where William’s older brother James suffered a premature death. William never married and in 1881, at the age of 38, and together with brothers John, Charles, and Joseph (below), he was a carpenter living at the home of his widowed mother at Toronto in the County of York. Towards the end of his life he was staying at the Toronto home of his younger married brother Charles and his large family in 1901, when he was 58, with no job of work, and confirmed that he had been born in England. Later that same year, when he was still 58, William Collett from England died from cancer at Yorkville in Toronto on 26^th October 1901 and was buried on 28^th October in Plot D Section 20 Lot 6 at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, whose owner was his younger brother Charles Collett (below).

John Collett [82O5] was born on 7^th March 1846 when living at Gloucester Road in Alstone, Cheltenham, the fifth child of William and Dedemia Collett. His birth was registered at Cheltenham (Ref. xi 24) during the second quarter of 1846. He and his family were still residing on Gloucester Road, Alstone, Cheltenham in 1851 and by the end of the following year the family had emigrated to Canada. The Ontario census in 1861 included John Collett from England was 15 and with his family at York Township, Toronto. Around ten years later John Collett married Elizabeth Ann Farnham, whose surname was recorded in a variety of ways – Farnham, Farnan, Farnum, Farmer, and even Skully on the occasion of the death of her married daughter Mary Evaline Ray, nee Collett. That latter surname would seem to suggest John and Elizabeth were later divorced, with his wife marrying for a second time. Rather curiously, on the day of the census in 1881, John Collett was recorded at two different locations in Toronto, which may have been a mistake made by his mother who had him recorded as living with her and her other unmarried sons.

Certainly, it is confirmed he was a married man and the father of three children by then, with him listed in the census at his mother’s house as John Collett aged 35 and a waggon maker at a railway shop where his brothers were also employed. However, John Collett from England aged 35 and a waggon maker was also recorded with his family in District 134, Centre Toronto. His wife Annie Collett was 30, and their three children, were Emma Collett who was nine, Lillie D Collett who was seven, and Annie B Collett who was three years of age. Staying with the family was Annie’s mother, 57-year-old Mary Farnham.

It is interesting that the family was living at 622 Yonge Street in Toronto from the time of the birth of daughter Annie Beatrice in 1878 through to Mary Eveline in 1882, with the next two children Stella and Edna were born next door at 620 Yonge Street up to 1887. After that, John and his family lived at 696 Yonge Street where daughter Agnes was born in 1895. All of that was because John’s brother and carriage maker Charles (below) took over 622 Yonge Street on being married in 1883, and it was there that his first child William Charles was born in 1884.

By 1901 John and his family were recorded at 142 in Ward 3 of Toronto District 116 with his brother Charles (below) living at number 141. John Collett from England was 55 and a carriage builder at the same railway shop as brother Charles. His wife Elizabeth Anne Collett was 50 and born in Ontario, when their children were recorded as Emma Collett aged 28, Lillie D Collett aged 26, Annie B Collett aged 23, Mary Eva Collett aged 19, Stella Mildred Collett who was 16, Edna Gertrude Collett who was 14, Clara Winifred Collett who was 10, and Agnes Pauline Collett who was six years old. Ten years later John’s occupation was that of a manufacturer according to the marriage record for his daughter Mary. It would appear that sometime between 1911 and 1928, John and his wife may have been divorced because, on the occasion of the premature death of their daughter Mary Evaline Ray in 1928, her mother was recorded on the death certificate as Elizabeth Ann Skully.

Five years later John Collett from England was still living in Toronto at 172 Sherwood Avenue when he died on 20^th February 1933 at the age of 86. The record of his passing confirmed that he was a son of William Collett and Dedemia Prout and prior to his death he had been suffering with general arteries sclerosis and senility for many years. He was also described as a self-employed carpenter who had lived at the same address for the preceding thirteen years, who was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto on 22^nd February 1933. The informant of his death was his married daughter Agnes Howlett of 172 Sherwood Avenue.

82P1 – Emma Collett was born in 1871 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P2 – Lillie Dedemia Collett was born in 1875 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P3 – Anne Beatrice Collett was born in 1878 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P4 – Mary Eveline Collett was born in 1882 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P5 – Stella Mildred Collett was born in 1885 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P6 – Edna Gertrude Collett was born in 1887 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P7 – Clara Winifred Collett was born in 1890 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P8 – Agnes Pauline Collett was born in 1895 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

Charles Collett [82O6] was born at Gloucester Road, Alstone, Cheltenham, on 4^th September 1848 with his birth registered at Cheltenham (Ref. xi 188) during the last quarter of the year. He was the penultimate child of William and Dedemia Collett. Having been two years old in the Cheltenham census of 1851, Charles was around three years old when his family left England and travelled to Yorkville Toronto. He was one of three son still living with his parents at York Township in 1861 when he was 13. Twenty years after that, unmarried Charles Collett from England was 33 and a carriage maker at a railway shop when he was one of four sons living with their elderly mother after their father had passed away. Two years later, the marriage of Charles Collett aged 34 and Katie Johnstone aged 27 took place in Toronto on 30^th May 1883. Charles was confirmed as the son of William and Dedemia Collett, with Catherine being the daughter of Alexander and Mary Ann Johnstone. Not long after they were married, Katie’s sister Isabella married Charles’ brother Joseph Collett (below), despite the surname of the bride being Johnson rather than Johnstone, the parents were confirmed as Alexander Johnstone and Mary Ann Campbell from Scotland.

The Canada census of 1901 recorded the Collett family at 141, Ward 3 Toronto, County of York, Ontario as Charles from England who was 52 and a carriage builder at a railway shop. His wife Catherine from Ontario was 48 having been born on 10^th May 1853 and have given birth to six children also born in Ontario. They were Charles junior who was 17, Norman who was 15, Alfred who was 13, Ethel who was 11, and twins Ernest and Gordon who were born on 3^rd March 1895, being six years of age. Staying with the family was Catherine’s widowed mother Mrs M A Johnstone from Scotland aged 64, and 21-year-old niece Annie Turner, and Charles’ older unmarried brother William Collett (above). Living in the adjacent property at 142 was John Collett (above), Charles and William’s married brother with his family.

According to the next census in 1911, the family was recorded at 16 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto North, Ward 3, where Charles Collett from England was 59 (sic) and a carriage builder whose date of birth was incorrectly stated as being September 1851. Perhaps, because he was so much older than his wife, he said he was three years younger than his actual age. His wife Catherine, who was correctly recorded in the previous census as 48, was now 52 while her date of birth was also wrong at January 1859. Even the dates of birth of two of their three eldest children were incorrect. Son William Charles Collett was 25 (instead of 27) born September 1885 (not 1884) and an architect at the School of Science. Son Norman Collett was also 25 born February 1886 who was a secretary at a motor shop, and Alfred C Collett was 23 born June 1888 (not 1887) and a shop manager at a wholesaler. Daughter Ethel May Collett was 21 born January 1890, and the twins were Ernest John Collett and Gordon was 16 and born in March 1895. Still living with the family was niece Annie Turner aged 31 and a store dressmaker, and Charles’ mother-in-law Mary A Johnstone, who was 76 and born in Scotland.

Charles Collett was the owner of Plot D Section 20 Lot 6 at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto where members of his family were buried from 1901 onwards. And it was there that Charles from England and a retired (railway) carriage builder was buried on 4^th January 1917 three days after he had died in Toronto at the age of 68. His passing was recorded in the County of York, Ontario (001022) which revealed his home address was 16 Hazelton Avenue, and the cause of death was diabetes which he had suffered with for about two years. He was being attended by Doctor John B Hall, most likely in hospital, because the informant of his death was funeral director Hopkins & Burgess Company of 529 Yonge Street, Toronto. The burial record confirmed that Charles was the owner of the grave plot and his eldest son and namesake Charles Collett was dealing with his affairs.

His widow continued to live at 16 Hazelton Avenue, where she was confirmed as residing in 1920 with her unmarried sons William and Alfred. Within the new two years mother and son left 16 Hazelton Avenue and in early 1922 their address was 264 Wright Avenue in Toronto, which is also where they were still living in 1924. Nine years later, the death of Catherine Collett was recorded at the County of York register office (003075/2247) after she died on 10^th April 1933, the cause of death being pemphigus. The informant of her passing was her eldest son W Charles Collett of 264 Wright Avenue, where she died. She was buried with her late husband at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto on 13^th March. Her son may have given the registrar some inaccurate details, such as that her father was William Johnstone, rather than Alexander Johnstone, and that she was 78 years of age, resulting in her date of birth being recorded as 10^th January 1855, instead of 10^th January 1853. At the time of her passing, it was only William who was living with her, with son Alfred living at Montreal in Quebec in 1932. In addition to all of the above in her death record, her mother’s maiden-name was stated to be Mary Ann Campbell, after whom son Alfred received his second forename.

82P9 – William Charles Collett was born in 1884 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P10 – Norman Collett was born in 1886 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P11 – Alfred Campbell Collett was born in 1887 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P12 – Ethel May Collett was born in 1890 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P13 – Ernest John Collett was born in 1895 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

82P14 – Harry Gordon Collett was born in 1895 at Toronto, County of York, Ontario

Joseph Collett [82O7] was born at Gloster Road, Alstone, Cheltenham on 27^th February 1851, the last of the seven children born to William Collett and Dedemia Prout, who was one month old in the Cheltenham census of 1851. Not long after he was born the family emigrated to Canada in 1852 and nine years later some members of the family were recorded at York, Toronto, Ontario on the day of the census in 1861, when Joseph from England was ten years old and the youngest of the three sons still living with their parents. His father William Collett was the proprietor of a boarding house, assisted by his wife, who had to customers boarding with them. Every member of the household was recorded as having been born in England. After a further twenty years, and at the age of 30, Joseph from England was a bachelor and a painter at a railway shop in Toronto, when he was the youngest of the four sons living there with their widowed mother. Within the next couple of years Joseph married Isabella and in 1891 they and their first two children were residing in the York East district of Toronto, when painter Joseph was 40.

His wife, the former Isabella Johnson (aka Johnstone) of Ontario, was 34 and the daughter of Alexander Johnstone and his wife Mary Ann Campbell, whose sister Katie Johnstone married Charles Collett (above), Joseph’s brother. The next census for East York in North Toronto Town in 1901, identified the family as Joseph Collett who was 49 and involved with carriages at a railway shop, Isabella who was 44, William who was 16 and employed as a clerk at a dry store merchant, Peter aged 14, Catherine aged 10, Joseph junior who was eight years old, Walter who was six, and four-year-old Annie.

On the day of the Canadian census in 1911, Joseph Collett from England was 60 years old and living at North Toronto, from where he was employed as a painter in a railway shop. With him was his wife Isabella Collett from Ontario who was born there in January 1859 and therefore nearly ten years younger than her husband. Recorded with the couple were their six children who had all been born in Ontario, and they were William aged 26 and a traveller, Peter aged 23 another painter but in the building trade, Catherine aged 20 had no occupation so was very likely helping her mother with keeping house, Joseph who was 18 and a salesman, and Walter who was 16 and Annie who was 14 who were students.

Three years later, on 8^th September 1914, at the age of 57, Isabella Collett nee Johnson (aka Johnstone) passed away at York. Ontario. Two days after, she was buried at Toronto Mount Pleasant Cemetery where Joseph L Collett was named as the owner of the plot. Her burial record also confirmed that she had been born at Thorah (Island) in Ontario. It is interesting that, on the occasion of the wedding of his youngest daughter Catherine in 1915, her father was described, for the only known time in his life, as W J Collett, most likely after his father, being William Joseph Collett.

By the time Joseph died at the age of 79 he had been a widower for fifteen years, when he was still living at Toronto, where he passed away on 9^th November 1929. His death was recorded at the County of York, Toronto (Ref. 263/6943/007900), with the following details: He was retired and died at home, 5 Doncliffe Drive, with the informant being his married daughter Mrs C V Wallace of 5 Doncliffe Drive, his body laid to rest at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto on 12^th November 1929, with the cause of death being cerebral haemorrhage. However, the same record of his passing described his parents as William Collett and Maria Prout.

82P15 – William Collett was born in 1885 at Ontario

82P16 – Peter James Collett was born in 1887 at Ontario

82P17 – Catherine Collett was born in 1891 at Ontario

82P18 – Joseph Collett was born in 1892 at Ontario

82P19 – Walter Collett was born in 1894 at Ontario

82P20 – Annie Collett was born in 1896 at Ontario

Emma Collett [82P1] was born on 19^th April 1871 at Toronto in the County of York, Ontario, the eldest of the eight children of John Collett and Elizabeth Ann Farnham. For whatever reason, the registering of her birth did not take place until 30^th May 1871 (013128), when the following details were recorded. Her father was confirmed as John Collett, a carpenter, and her mother was named as simply Annie Farnham who, as Annie Collett, was also the informant of the birth. The family’s home address on that day was stated to be “on the corner of Yonge Street and St Marys Street, Toronto”. By the time of the census in 1881 when Emma was nine years old, she and her two younger sister were listed with their parents within District 134, Centre Toronto. Twenty years after that, unmarried Emma was 28 and working as a bookkeeper when she was still living at the family home 142 in Ward 3 of Toronto District 116.

Emma never married and on 17^th January 1941, at the age of 69, she was recorded crossing from Canada into America at Buffalo, Niagara Falls, accompanied by Edward Burns with whom she was an employee. Interestingly, the departure contact in Canada was J F Howlett. Nineteen years earlier, Emma Collett had been a witness at the 1922 Toronto wedding of her youngest sister Agnes Pauline Collett of 172 Sherwood Avenue, also where Emma was living, when she married engineer Thomas Floyd Howlett.

Lillie Dedemia Collett [82P2] was born on 2^nd December 1873 at Toronto and was given the name of her maternal grandmother Dedemia Prout from Gloucestershire in England. Lillie was the second of the eight daughters of John and Elizabeth Collett. As Lillie D Collett she was seven years old in Toronto census of 1881 and was 26 in 1901, when she had followed other members of the wider Toronto Collett by working as a carriage builder at a railway shop. Just after that census day, Lillie D Collett married Rowland H Mode, shortly thereafter she gave birth to the couple’s first child, Russell Charles Mode, who was born on 11^th December 1903 in Toronto.

Further children followed and by 1911, with their enlarged family residing at Brandon in Manitoba, they also had Lillie’s younger sister Clara (below) staying with them, plus Rowland’s brother Russell. Head of the household Rowland H Mode was 34 and a professor at a college, and his wife Lillie D Mode was 36. Their three sons were Russell who was seven, Merlin H Mode who was three, and Everett B Mode who was one year old. Completing the family group was Russell C Mode who was 19, and Clara W Collett who was 20 and a visitor. Twenty years later, the census of 1931 recorded the Mode family residing at 57 Beverly Boulevard in Scarborough within the County of York. Rowland Mode was 54 and a stock broker, and Lillie Mode was 58 and a homemaker, both of them born in Ontario. With them that day were three children; Everett Mode from Manitoba was 20 and a builder working in the house-building trade, Muriel Mode was 18 and also born in Manitoba, while Donald Mode was 16 and born in Ontario.

Anne Beatrice Collett [82P3] was born on 6^th March 1878 at 622 Yonge Street in Toronto, another daughter of John Collett, a carpenter, and his wife who was named as Elizabeth Ann Farnam on the birth record. At the time of her wedding day, her mother’s name was recorded as Elizabeth Farnham. Just prior to that event, 23-year-old Annie B Collett was stilling living with her family at 142 in a Ward 9 of Toronto, from where she was working as a carriage builder at the local railway shop with other members of her family. It was on 24^th June 1901 at Toronto that Anne B Collett, aged 23, married Robert W Menzie who was 22 and a traveller, the son of Robert E Menzie and Christina Holmes. Four years after their wedding day Annie presented Robert with a daughter, with Marjorie M Menzie born in Toronto during the month of July 1905, and she may have been their only child. Certainly, she was the only one living with the couple in 1911 when Robert W Menzie was 32, as was Annie B Menzie, and working in rubber goods, when they were living with District 128, West Toronto, with their daughter Marjorie M Menzie who was five years of age. The census return raises an issue with the year in which Annie was born. Robert was recorded as having been born in February 1879, and Annie was during March but that same year.

They were married for a total of just thirty-three years and were living at 122 Marion Street in Toronto when Anne B Menzie died on 17^th September 1934 aged 56, the cause of death being a carcinoma of urinary bladder. She was then laid to rest at Park Lawn Cemetery in Toronto on 19^th September 1934. The record of her death confirmed that she was the wife of R W Menzie, and the daughter of John Collett and Elizabeth Ann Farnan (sic).

Mary Eveline Collett [82P4] was born on 5^th March 1882 at 622 Yonge Street in Toronto, the fourth child of (railway) carriage builder John Collett and Elizabeth Ann Farnham (recorded as Farnam). It was only on the occasion of her birth that her name was recorded as Eveline, thereafter she was referred to as Eva or Evaline. On completing her education and in the census of 1901, Mary Eva Collett was working as a clerk at the same time her three older sisters were employed at the railway shop, so perhaps that was where she was also an employee. That day the family home was at 142 Ward 9 in Toronto, while it was nine years later that the marriage of Mary Evaline Collett and Colin Archibald Ray took place in Toronto on 18^th January 1911. Mary was 28 and the daughter of John Collett and Elizabeth Ann Farnham, with Colin being 27 and the son of Archibald Ray and Margaret McInnes, whose occupation was that of a printer, who had been born at Proton Township in Grey County, Ontario. The two witness were Mary’s sisters Stella and Agnes Collett (below). In addition, Colin came into the marriage with two young children from his previously marriage, being widowed when he was so young. His late wife, and the mother of the two daughters was Mary Amelia Bell, their girls being Kathleen Marie Ray who was born on 26^th September 1906 at Glenelg in Grey County, as was Margaret Jane Ray who was born there on 3^rd March 1908.

So it was not surprising that, only six months after their wedding day, the family recorded in the census that same year numbered four; Colin, Mary, and Colin’s two daughters. On that day, there were living in what was referred to as an apartment house at Bentinck Township, District 74 South Grey, Ontario. Colin Ray was 26 and a farmer, who was also a labourer at a saw mill, who had been born in April 1885. Mary Ray was 29, and her two stepdaughters were Kate Ray who was four and Maggie Ray who was three years old.

Mary and Colin were only married for eighteen years when Mary Evaline Ray died at Toronto on 31^st October 1928 at the age of 46, when she was described as the wife of Archie Ray of Port Credit, just south of Toronto. She was buried on 3^rd November 1928 at Park Lawn Cemetery midway between Port Credit and Toronto. Where or not by error, Mary’s parents were recorded as John Collett and Elizabeth Ann Skully instead of Farnham, which raises the question, were her parents divorced by then, since Mary’s father is known to have died in 1933.

Stella Mildred Collett [82P5] was born at 620 Yonge Street in Toronto on 16^th February 1885, another daughter of John and Elizabeth Ann Collett. By 1901 she was 16 years of age and was already working for a dry store merchant, when she was living at 142 in Toronto. Just under eleven years after that day, the marriage of Stella Mildred Collett, aged 26, and Daniel William McDonald who was 33 was conducted at Toronto on 1^st January 1912. Stella’s parents were confirmed as John Collett, a (railway) carriage builder, and Elizabeth Ann Farnham, with Daniel the son of Angus McDonald, another carriage builder, and Annabel Fraser. One of the two witnesses was Stella’s younger sister Clara Winifred Collett, while the identity of the second, W Charles Collett, has still to be determined.

Edna Gertrude Collett [82P6] was born at 620 Yonge Street in Toronto on 10^th February 1887 and was the sixth child of (railway) carriage maker John and Elizabeth Ann Collett whose maiden-name was recorded in error as Farnam, rather than Farnham. Edna was 14 years old in the Toronto census when living there with her family in 1901. Sixteen years later the marriage of Edna Gertrude Collett, aged 30, and William Henry Harvey, aged 39, took place in Toronto on 5^th June 1917. William was a sales manager of 83 Summerhill Avenue in Toronto, the son of Williamm V Harvey and Mary Morrison. Edna was again recorded as the daughter of John Collett and Elizabeth Ann Farnam, when one of the witnesses was Edna’s younger sister Agnes Pauline Collett of 84 Summerhill Avenue, meaning Edna and William were neighbour prior to the day.

Clara Winifred Collett [82P7] was born on 9^th June 1890 at Toronto and was ten years old in the Toronto census of 1901 and was another of John and Elizabeth Collett with whom she was living in 1901. Ten years later 20-year-old Clara W Collett from Toronto was visiting her older married sister Lillie D Mode at her family’s home in Brandon, Manitoba. The only other record of her was within the next twelve months, when Clara was one of the witnesses at the wedding of her sister Stella Mildred Collett (above) in January 1912.

Agnes Pauline Collett [82P8] was born on 2^nd April 1895 at 696 Yonge Street in Toronto, the eighth and last child of John Collett, a (railway) carriage maker, and Elizabeth Ann Farnam (sic), who was six years of age in 1901, when the family was again living in Toronto. Agnes was 27 and still residing in the family home at 172 Sherwood Avenue when she married Thomas Floyd Howlett who was 32, a bachelor, and an engineer. Their wedding took place on 1^st June 1922 at Toronto, when Agnes was described as the daughter of John Collett and Elizabeth Ann Farnum (sic), and when Thomas was recorded as the son of Joseph Howlett and Mary Jane Vanstone. One of the witness was Agnes’ eldest sister Emma Collett, also of 172 Sherwood Avenue.

Nine years into their marriage, the couple was again living at 172 Sherwood Avenue, where head of the household was Thomas Floyd Howlett was 41 and an electrical engineer, Agnes Pauline Howlett was 36 and, while they had no children, they did have Agnes elderly parents living with them. They were John Collett from England who was 85 and a retired store worker, and Elizabeth Ann Collett was 80. Two years later it was Agnes Howlett who informed the register office in the County of York, Ontario, of the death of her father John Collett in 1933, when both she and her father had still been living at 172 Sherwood Avenue in Toronto. The death record also confirmed that John had been living at that address, with his married daughter, since 1920.

William Charles Collett [82P9] was born at 622 Yonge Street in Toronto on 17^th September 1884 with his birth recorded at the register office in the County of York, Ontario (045126/2457). His father was the informant of the birth, whose occupation was that of a (railway) carriage maker and when his mother’s name was recorded as Johnson (sic). He was more generally known as Charles and was the first of the six children of Charles Collett and Catherine (Katie) Johnstone. Upon being married, it was his parents who moved into 622 Yonge Street after it was vacated by his father’s older married brother John Collett, whose two daughters Alice and Mary were born there. By 1884/1885 that family was living next door at 620 Yonge Street, although they later lived at 696 Yonge Steet during the 1890s.

In 1901 Charles was 17 and living with his family at 141, Ward 3 Toronto, County of York, Ontario when, living with them, was his maternal grandmother Mary Ann Johnstone, and it was the same situation ten years later in 1911. On the census day that year the family home was at 16 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto North, Ward 3, when William Charles Collett was 25 (sic) and an architect at the School of Science. At the age of 39, on 17^th June 1924, William Charles Collett was recorded crossing from Canada into America at Buffalo, Niagara Falls. On his departure from home, it was his mother Catherine who was described as the departure contact, with the arrival contact names as Mrs F Price. It is established that William returned to live with his widowed mother at 264 Wright Avenue in Toronto where they were both still living when his mother died in 1933, William being the informant of her passing. Eight years later the same crossing was made by his cousin Emma Collett [82P1] aged 69 on 17^th January 1941.

Norman Collett [82P10] was born at 622 Yonge Street in Toronto on 27^th February 1886, the second child of Charles Collett and his wife Katie Johnstone, his birth recorded at the County of York register office (044186/977). Norman was five years old in the Toronto census of 1891 and was 15 years of age and a student in 1901 when he was living with his family at 141, Ward 3 Toronto, County of York, Ontario. The family home in 1911 was at Hazelton Avenue in Toronto North where Norman was 25 and working as a secretary at a motor shop. Later that same year, on 14^th October 1911, Norman Collett aged 25 and a son of Charles Collett and Kathleen (?) Johnstone was married by licence (16127 – 4217) Bessie Louise Le Page who was 22 and the daughter of Henry T Le Page and Margaret Agnes Moore. It was the previous day that the licence was sought and signed off with Norman swearing that he was of full age, with his usual place of abode being the City of Guelph (The Royal City) in Wellington County, Ontario, with Bessie swearing the same, but that she was still living at Le Page family home at 102 Lyndale Avenue in Toronto. Norman was not credited with having an occupation but both his father and the bride’s father were described as manufacturers. The two witnesses were Alfred C Collett of 16 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto – Norman’s brother (below), and Dorothy Le Page – Bessie’s sister.

The marriage produced at least two sons who were living with the couple in the Parkdale district of Toronto in 1931. The census that year recorded the family as renting six rooms at 44A Geoffrey Street at a cost of 55 Canadian Dollars, the property owned by Arthur Wardrobe and valued at 10,000 dollars who had five rooms at the same address for him and his wife. Norman Collett was 44 and a sales manager in automobile supplies with an annual salary of 2,600 dollars, Bessie Louise Collett was 42 and a home maker for her husband and their two sons. They were James Charles Collett who was 17 and a stock keeper at a departmental store for an annual salary of 720 dollars, and Herbert Norman Collett who was 16 and a student. Nothing further is currently known about any member of the family.

82Q1 – James Charles Collett was born in 1914 at Ontario

82Q2 – Herbert Norman Collett was born in 1915 at Ontario

Alfred Campbell Collett [82P11] was born at 622 Yonge Street in Toronto on 5^th June 1887, the third son of carriage builder Charles Collett and his wife Katie Johnstone, his birth recorded at the County of York register office (043167/2112). As simply Alfred Collett, he was living with his family at 141, Ward 3 Toronto when he was thirteen years of age. Ten years later, Alfred C Collett was 23 and employed at a wholesale shop, where he was a manager, when he was still living at the family home which by then was at 16 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto North, Ward 3 in 1911.

When he was 32, Alfred was still living with his widowed mother at 16 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto when he was a silk buyer, when he sailed back to Canada from New York on the S S Mauritania on 13^th March 1920, with his passage paid for by his employer Balding Paul Costicello Ltd, Canada. Other business trips followed, the next on 24^th May 1922 was in first class on the S S Olympic from New York to Toronto when he was 34 and financed by his employer. Once again, he was a silk buyer, who was then living with his mother at 264 Wright Avenue in Toronto. After another gap of two years, the next trip was on 5^th June 1924 when silk buyer Alfred Campbell Collett was 36 and a passenger onboard the S S Aegina operated by Thomas Cook & Son, returning home to 264 Wright Avenue in Toronto, having initial sailed out of Quebec on 7^th May 1924. The passenger list also included his nearest relative where he lived, that being Mrs C Collett, his mother. During those years, Alfred’s older unmarried brother William (above) was also living at 264 Wright Avenue with their mother, where she died in 1933 after Alfred had moved out some time before that sad event.

One year earlier, on 10^th April 1932, Alfred Campbell Collett was 44 and single when he sailed on the S S Lady Nelson, travelling for his occupation in the silk business, from British West Indies to Boston in America, when his permanent address was reported to be in Montreal, Quebec. It was also as Alfred Campbell Collett that he died thirty years later on 27^th July 1962 at St Albans Town, Franklin County in Vermont, where he appears to have been for just two weeks, when he suffered an acute coronary occlusion lasting one minute. He was a single gentleman and a retired export manager whose usual residence was 487 Rosewell Avenue in Toronto, the son of Charles Collett and Katherine Johnson (sic). Afterwards, his body was removed to Toronto.

Ethel May Collett [82P12] was born on 14^th January 1890 at Toronto, the fourth child and eldest daughter of Charles Collett and Catherine Johnstone, recorded as Johnston, and was 11 years old in the Toronto census of 1901. By 1911 the family home was a 16 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto, where Ethel May was 23, but having no job of work. Tragically, at the age of 32, unmarried Ethel May Collett died at Toronto on 1^st March 1922, the cause of death being a cystic ovary. The record of her death gave her nearest relative as Mrs C Collett, her mother, of 264 Wright Avenue, Toronto, and confirmed that Ethel was to be laid to rest on 4^th March in a grave owned by her father Charles Collett, Plot D Section 20 Lot 6 at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Ernest John Collett [82P13] was born at 698 Yonge Street in Toronto on 3^rd March 1895 with his twin brother (below) when his birth was recorded at the County of York register office (039714/1192), another son of Charles Collett and Catherine Johnson (aka Katie Johnstone). Just like his twin brother, Ernest was six years of age and 16 years old in 1901 and 1911 when, for the latter the family home was at 16 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto North, Ward 3. Only two further facts are known about him, the first of them, that on 11^th January 1924 unmarried Ernest Collett aged 28 and a tailor from 264 Wright Avenue in Toronto sailed out of St Johns, Canada on the S S Netagama on a ticket purchased in Paris, Ontario. On that day he was travelling with the Canadian Olympic Hockey Tour in preparation for the forthcoming Olympic Games. The 1924 Summer Olympics, known as the Games of the VIII Olympiad, were hosted by Paris in France from 4^th May to 27^th July. The last thing known about him, is that he died on 21^st December 1951, when Ernest John Collett was 56 and buried in the family grave at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, where other members of the family were buried.

Harry Gordon Collett [82P14] was born at 698 Yonge Street in Toronto on 3^rd March 1895 the twin brother of Ernest (above) whose birth was recorded at the County of York register office (039715/1192), the six and last child of carriage builder Charles Collett and Catherine Johnson (aka Katie Johnstone). He was six years of age in the Toronto census of 1901 and was 16 years old in 1911 when he and his family were residing at 16 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto North, Ward 3. No other details for him after day have been found.

William Collett [82P15] was born at 32 Scollard Street in Toronto on 7^th January 1885 and was the first-born child of Joseph Collett from England and Isabella Johnstone the sister of Catherine (aka Katie) Johnstone who married Joseph’s cousin Charles Collett. His birth was recorded at the County of York register office (040991/361) when his parents were named as Joseph Collett, a (railway) carriage painter, and Bella Johnson. William was six years old in the Toronto census of 1891, and was 16 in 1901 by which time he had finished his education and was working as a clerk for a dry store merchant when living with his family in the East York area of North Toronto Town. He was again with his family in 1911, but at North Ontario when, at the age of 26 he was a traveller, presumably a commercial traveller, as confirmed later on.

Shortly after that census day William Collett married Viola and in 1916 the childless couple was residing in Alberta in a part of Calgary on the West side of the city, at 334 15^th West Street. Viola was 25 and born at NS – Nova Scotia maybe, and William from Ontario was 31 and a commercial traveller in ladies wear. Lodging with them was Arkmas Saunders from Prince Edward Island who was 45. It was William’s occupation that resulted in the couple moving around Canada and, in 1926 they were recorded in an apartment at Panama Court off Dorchester Avenue in Winnipeg South, Manitoba. On that occasion the couple had an eight-year-old daughter, Wilda Jane, who had been born in Manitoba, when William was 40 and Viola was 34. Annoyingly, the census return did not include any occupations, although living with them was domestic Mary Alyluia who was 20 years of age.

For the next census in 1931, William’s occupation was again confirmed as a manufacturer’s agent in ladies wear when he was 46 and living at 69 Middle Gate in Winnipeg South Centre with his wife and daughter. That census returned confirmed that Viola Jane Collett was born in Nova Scotia and was 40 years old. Their daughter Wilda Jane Collett was 13 and a student, and completing the household was domestic servant Molly Schwarty from Russia who was 21. William was stated to be the owner of the property, which was valued at 16,000 Canadian dollars.

82Q3 – Wilda Jane Collett was born in 1918 at Manitoba

Peter James Collett [82P16] was born at 117 Hazelton Avenue in Toronto on 9^th February 1887 the second child of Joseph and Isabella Collett. His birth as simply Peter Collett was recorded at the County of York register office (041738/697) when his parents were confirmed as Joseph Collett, a painter, and Bella Johnston (aka Johnstone). Simply as Peter Collett, he was four years old in the Toronto, York East census of 1891. He and his family were living at East York in North Toronto Town for the census in 1901, when Peter Collett was 14 and attending school. After a further ten years, the North Toronto census in 1911 identified father and son Peter working as painters, Peter was 23. Towards the end of that same year he became a married man.

It was on that occasion, on 7^th December 1911 and recorded at the County of York register office (018581) that, for the first time, as far as can be determined, he was named as Peter James Collett. He was a bachelor when he was married by licence to widow Georgina Price, her maiden-name, at Eglinton in the County of York, Ontario. They were both 24, with the groom’s parents confirmed as Joseph Collett and Bella Johnston (aka Johnstone), while the bride was the daughter of George Price and Mary Follie. Peter’s occupation was still that of a painter who was still residing at the town of North Toronto, while Georgina’s abode was in the City of Toronto. The two witness were Joseph Collett senior, being Peter’s father, and Isabella Spittel, both of Eglington.

Twenty years later Peter Collett from Ontario, a married man at 44 was staying at a very large lodging house with lots of other tradesmen at 100 Lippincotte in the City of Toronto, Toronto West Centre, when he was again a painter but, on that occasion, working in the house building trade. No record of his wife has been found since they were married. It was again as Peter James Collett how he was described when he died at Whitby in Durham County, Ontario on 26^th December 1956, when he was 69 years of age.

Catherine Collett [82P17] was born at Eglinton, North Toronto on 3^rd June 1891, as confirmed by the recorded of her birth at the County of York register office, a daughter of Joseph Collett and Isabella Johnston (aka Johnstone). Eglinton was a small farming community at what is the intersection of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue in the County of York, Ontario, and just a few miles to the north of Toronto Town. It was the East York census for North Toronto Town in 1901 that her alternative date of birth was recorded as 4^th June 1890, which may have been an error made by the census enumerator, since she was also said to be 10 years old and appropriate for being born in 1891. Ten years later the family was again living in North Toronto when Catherine was 20 but was not described as being a student or with having a job or work. Her mother died three years later, so it is possible that in 1911 it was Catherine who was carrying out domestic duties if her mother was not fully fit.

One year after suffering the loss of her mother, Catherine Collett aged 24 married Carl Vivian Wallace aged 28 were married at Toronto City (021432) on 16^th June 1915, when the bride’s parents were described as W J Collett (aka Joseph) and Bella Johnstone (aka Isabella) and her place of birth was stated to be Eglinton. The groom’s parents were named as Harris Leslie Wallace and Harriet Alberta Stevens, with his occupation being that of a dentist and his place of birth recorded as Nov Scotia, who was living in Toronto in 1915. The witnesses were Annie Collett of Toronto, the bride’s youngest sister, and H E Wallace from Stanley in Montreal. The licence for the marriage was signed the day before their wedding. Carl had been born at Rawdon Gold Mines at East Hants, Nova Scotia on 22^nd March 1887. Six years later Catherine (aka Kate Wallace) was a witness at the wedding of sister Annie.

On the death of her father, and a widower for the previous fifteen years, it was Mrs C V Wallace of 5 Doncliffe Drive in the City of Toronto who was the informant of his passing in November 1929. Two years later the census in 1931 confirmed that the Wallace family home was still at 5 Doncliffe Drive, but which time Catherine had given birth to two children. Their home was valued at 23,000 Canadian dollars and was in the ownership of Doctor C V Wallace who was 43 and from Nova Scotia, a dentist with his own practice. His wife Kate Wallace was 38, daughter Isabel A Wallace was 15, and son William Harris Wallace was 13, both of them students, while completing the household was Amy Miller aged 16 who was a maid and domestic employed by the family.

Joseph Collett [82P18] was born at Eglinton, North Toronto on 6^th October 1892, another son of painter Joseph Collett and Isabel Johnson (aka Johnstone). However, the birth was not recorded then, nor within the following twelve months, or for a great many years. In fact, it was a written statement made under the requirements of the Canada Evidence Act (901314) by his older brother on 8^th March 1941 and signed by Peter James Collett of the City of Toronto that reported “I do solemnly declare that [1] I am the brother of Joseph Collett aforesaid, [2] I have personal knowledge of the matters herein and above set forth, and the information furnished is true in substance and fact: that [3] both parents are deceased, [4] I am five years senior to my brother aforenamed and was at home at the time of the birth and have a distinct recollection of the occurrence.

Thirty years earlier, within the Toronto census of 1901, Joseph was eight years old and the fourth of the six children living there with his family and, after a further decade he was 18 and a salesman working out of the family home in North Toronto, which may have been Eglinton where he and his sister Catherine (above) were born. Joseph was 32 and in Detroit, Michigan, where he married Beatrice Beaton on 8^th October 1924. Joseph Collett from Canada was a clerk and confirmed as the son of Joseph Collett and Isabella Johnson (aka Johnstone), while Beatrice was 29 with no occupation who was the daughter of Arthur Beaton and Margaret McAllister. Ten years earlier when Beatrice had been around 19 years of age, she had given birth to a daughter, which she brought into the marriage with her.

By the time of the Detroit census in 1930, Joseph and his wife were living within Precinct 54 of Detroit City at 12671 Cherrylawn Street, which they rented at a cost of $60 each month. The census return stated that both husband and wife had emigrated to America from Canada in 1924. Joseph Collett was 35, his wife Dale Collett was 33, and his stepdaughter Margaret Collett was 13, who had also been born in Canada. That day Joseph’s occupation was that of a salesman of wholesale dry goods. In 1935 and again in 1940, according to the latter census, they had been and were living at 2556 Detroit Road, another rented property but in Flint City, Genesee County in Michigan, sixty-six miles north-west of Detroit. By that time Beatrice’s daughter was very likely married and had left home, leaving just Joseph aged 47 who was still employed in the wholesale business as a salesman of dry goods, with his wife Dale then 43 years old.

It was not until 17^th August 1942 that Joseph completed his immigration from Canada to America at the office in Detroit via registration number 1412415, when his date of birth was recorded as 6^th October 1892. At that time in his life, and confirm in the Detroit Census of 1950, Joseph was a travelling salesman for a wholesale druggist when he was 57, when Beatrice (as Dale Beatrice Collett) was 54, both of them recorded as born in Canada, when they were residing at 1750 303 Calvert Avenue in the City of Detroit. Upon the death of Joseph Collett aged 79 at Genesee County in Michigan during the month of February in 1971, his date of birth was again confirmed as 6^th October 1892.

Walter Collett [82P19] was born in Eglinton, North Toronto on 30^th November 1894, with his birth recorded at the County of York in Ontario (037360), the youngest son of painter Joseph Collett and Bella Johnston (aka Johnstone). He was six years old in 1901 when he and his family were living within the East York district of North Toronto Town. By 1911, at the age of 16, Walter was still with his family at North Toronto, when he may have been a student. He was 20 year old when he married Lily Florence Edwards on 10^th July 1918 at Toronto. The marriage was authorised the previous day when the licence was signed in Toronto. Lily was 24 and the daughter of John Edwards and Lily Tooze of 1319 Bathurst Street in Toronto, while Walter was a soldier who was confirmed as the son of Joseph Collett and Isabella Johnstone, whose address was 2741 Yonge Street, Toronto. The two witnesses at the wedding were Walter’s brother Joseph Collett of Upbridge (?), Ontario, and Elsie May Edwards, the bride’s sister.

By the time they were celebrating their fifteenth wedding anniversary Walter and Lily were residing at 24 Glebe Road West in Toronto. Also by that time Lily had given birth to four children, all of whom had been born in the Province of Ontario, and most likely in Toronto. The census return for 1931 listed the family as follows. Head of the household Walter Collett was 35, whose occupation was that of a buyer and a seller with the Ford Motor Company, and Lily F Collett was a homemaker who was also recorded as 35, instead of 39. The four children were Lilian E Collett aged 12, Jack J A Collett who was 11, William H Collett who was five, all three described as students, and one year old Edward G Collett. Their home was owned by Walter and was valued at 6,800 Canadian dollars.

The only detail known about their children, relates to son William, who died in 2018 at the age of 93, when he was buried at Elmwood Cemetery in Markham, a few miles north-east of Toronto.

82Q4 – Lilian E Collett was born in 1919 at Toronto

82Q5 – Jack J A Collett was born in 1920 at Toronto

82Q6 – William H Collett was born in 1925 at Toronto

82Q7 – Edward G Collett was born in 1930 at Toronto

Mary Anne Collett [82P20], who was known as Annie, was born at Eglinton, North Toronto on 14^th December 1896, the last child of Joseph Collett and Isabella Johnson (aka Johnstone), the birth recorded at the County of York register office, Ontario. She was Annie Collett aged four year in 1901 and was Annie Collett aged 14 and a student in 1911. However, it was as Mary Ann Collett that she married Stanley Kitson Hisey on 1^st June 1921 at Toronto. The licence authorising their marriage to go ahead was signed five days earlier on 27^th May 1921. Stanley was 26 and a produce broker and the son of Samuel Hisey and Bessie Hipson, while Mary was 24 and a graduate nurse and the daughter of Joseph Collett and Bella Johnston (aka Johnstone). The address given as the abode of both the bride and the groom was 21 Glenwood Avenue in Toronto, with one of the witnesses being Annie’s married sister Kate Wallace who, on being married six years prior to the day, had Annie as one of her witnesses. The other witness was W J Houston.

Stanley had been born during September 1894, possibly at Simcoe Ontario where he and his younger sister Bessie were living with their parents in 1901, when his father was a grain dealer.

Ten years later, according to the Toronto census in 1931, the couple and three children, plus a servant, were still living at 21 Glenwood Avenue, where Stanley was 36 and was again a broker within the produce business, homemaker Anne was 34, William Joseph Hisey was eight year of age and attending a public school, Joanne Elizabeth Hisey was five and shirted at a public school, and Samuel Kitson Hisey was one year old. The family’s servant was Phyllis Simpson from England who was 21. Stanley was also the owner of their home which was valued at 8,000 Canadian dollars.