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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Canada Lookup Request => Topic started by: LittleLondoner on Saturday 17 July 10 19:12 BST (UK)
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Hi,
I'm trying to find what happened to my Nan's sister who emigrated in the 30's with the address of destination being 'Canadian Women's Hostel, 1155 Drummond St, Montreal'. She was a domestic. Does anyone know what this place was? Or where I could find any records to find out where she went from there?
I'm failing so far to find any trace of her after that...we think she may have married a man named Fritz, but we don't know if that was his first name or surname even?
Her name was Constance Evelyn Cowan Begg b abt 1909
Any help most gratefully received!
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Revisted older thread.............
Could this be the one ?..............
C. Evelyn Begg McRae - 1910 - 2008
Sixth Concession+ / prev. Lodi, Roxborough Twp.
Burial Place Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry, Ontario.
https://canadianheadstones.ca/wp/headstone-vendor/?wpda_search_column_idperson=39731
spouse John Duncan McRae - 1905 - 1974
Sandra
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Appears christian name (above) was Christina Evelyn Begg so perhaps not yours. :-\
Elusive lady.
1940 Census Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Lena L Henderson 61 Head
Diane Wood 24 Lodger
Phoebe A Jones 20 Lodger
Robert Meyer 42 Lodger
Dorothy I Nelson 26 Lodger
Frank Foshay 29 Lodger
Ethel J Saunders 69 Lodger
Charlene Ditmarson 23 Lodger
Constance G Begg 31 Lodger. Born Eng. Single. Lodger. Residence in 1935 Montreal.
Carl G Jacobs 33 Lodger
Joseph A March 39 Lodger
Sandra
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Nice find Sandra.
She is in Montreal in 1935 Voters' Lists, living at 24 Edgehill Road, Westmount, a table maid. This may have been a rooming house.
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Latest version of poster's online tree has her tracked up until 1942 when she is in Morristown, New Jersey.
https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/12604424/person/-221800704/facts
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Hadn't seen the tree Eileen - thank you very much. :) Looks like the poster had moved on since 2010
Note on tree :- 1946 - Dec 1946
Maricopa, Kern, California, USA
Envelope w. address on back. Dated Dec 23
Sandra
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1956 Passenger List arrival New York on the Saxonia 17 March 1956 - referred to Evelyn Begg - 255 Coopes Street, Ottawa.
Sandra
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Hi, I had a similar query, my relative was sent to Canada to the Canadian woman's hostel, because she had got pregnant not married,. The Catholic Church sent her to this place, her name was changed and she was trained as a domestic there is an article you should Google " sisters of service of Canada "
Best wishes Paul
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Hi, I had a similar query, my relative was sent to Canada to the Canadian woman's hostel, because she had got pregnant not married,. The Catholic Church sent her to this place, her name was changed and she was trained as a domestic there is an article you should Google " sisters of service of Canada "
Best wishes Paul
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Another great article to read that may help.
"Nowhere else to go - Homes for unwed Mothers in Canada during the 20th century "
By Nancy Schnarr