Gladys May Sanderson - Montreal

[chinakay]

Well....looking into it a bit, I came across a statistic from 1916 that even under the best sanatorium conditions, 50% of patients died within 5 years. Horrifying. But it also indicates that the other 50% did not die within 5 years, so there's a chance that Gladys' father could have had the disease but survived longer.

There's a latent TB wherein the patient has the disease but doesn't exhibit symptoms...yet. There are also other forms of the disease that manifest in other parts of the body...spinal TB is the one I have heard of. That would have to be horribly painful and debilitating. But I don't know the survival rates.

Cheers,
China

[senteacher]

Thanks, China. I read a bit about the outbreak in the 1930s in Canada. It must have been devastating. Apparently the Inuit people were taken miles away from their homes and families to try to prevent the spread in their close-knit communities. I'm beginning to wonder whether Gladys might have been a nurse. I doubt that she would have been doing nothing at the age of 23. Any ideas on how I could find out?

[chinakay]

Well, I've had a look around the internet but come up with nothing I'm afraid

She says she wasn't tubercular when she arrived, but that doesn't mean much.

If you load 1808 Avenue Aird into Google Maps you can see the street where she lived, and the street view will give you an even better idea. I couldn't see 1808 though...1806 and 1810 but no 1808, frustrating. There are three doors on the second floor of 1810 (1814 on the ground floor), so the middle door will open into a stair to the third floor. It's numbered 1810a but it's possible it was renumbered, although in the street directory there seems to be someone living at 1810a. So....don't know. The laneway between the houses will always have been there, it's a standard feature of Montreal and other North American cities.

Sorry I can't give you anything else.

Cheers,
China

[senteacher]

Yes, I've looked on google maps too. I found 1404 (on the other side of the lane). I've applied to the cemetery to find out where exactly the family were buried. Once I know the plot no's, I can possibly get a bit more info. I'll have to try and get death certificates but am not sure how to do it from England (no doubt google will help again).

Thank you for all the time and effort you've expended on my behalf. It's greatly appreciated.

[polarbear]

Here is a link to theQuebec Government website with info about ordering certificates. What they would send you for Gladys, for example, would be a transcript (I don't think they send a photocopy but China might know?) of the parish record. As I mentioned earlier, there is no formal registration of BMDs before about 1994 but if you can access Ancestry through your local public library you would have access to the original image of Gladys' burial.

http://www.etatcivil.gouv.qc.ca/en/certificate-copy-act.html

PB

[chinakay]

Don't know about government certificates, sorry....don't even know when they started. My dad died in 1979 and there was a typewritten cert but 1933? No idea.

My own official birth certificate was a notarized copy of the church register. And no, I'm not telling you what year

PM me with your email and I can send you Gladys' PR page but it has no cause of death...it's just a church burial record.

Cheers,
China

[*Sandra*]

Re-visited older thread - you may already have this info ?

Death Notice/Obit - Gladys May Sanderson - The Gazette
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 6 May 1933, Sat    Page 7

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93714771/gladys-may-sanderson-6-may-1933/

FIND A GRAVE

Cimetière Mont-Royal Outremont, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada
PLOT   G 2167-V

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109013220/gladys-may-sanderson

William Henry Henderson - 1944

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108194164/william-henry-sanderson

Eva May Sanderson - 1953

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109013213/eva-may-sanderson

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Death Notice William Sanderson - The Montreal Star Montreal, Quebec, Canada
18 Sep 1944, Mon    Page 18

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93714916/william-sanderson-18-september-1944/

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Obituary Eva Sanderson - The Montreal Star Montreal, Quebec, Canada
7 Jan 1953, Wed    Page 22

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93714975/eva-sanderson-7-january-1953/

Sandra