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EDMUND RUSSELL GARNETT

Edmund Russell Garnett was born on 13 July 1908 in the rural municipality of Dufferin, Manitoba to Edmund Walton Russell (1872-1960) & Mary Ann Sherman (1880-1948). Russell had two sisters, Rita Zola Mary (1901-1974) & Marjorie Bernice Erma (b 1904). Russell’s father was a grain buyer in Dufferin in 1901 and farmed at Macdonald, Manitoba at the time of Russell’s birth but the family had moved to 210 10th St E, Vancouver at the time of the 1911 census. Here Edmund Sr was making his living as a carpenter.

By 1919 the family had moved to Saskatoon and were living at 314 9th St E. Edmund Sr was superintendent at the Canada Elevator Co. In 1920-1921, Edmund Sr entered into a partnership with H E Garnett (possibly a cousin) to run the Peerless Garage at 400 3rd Ave S. This seems to have been a short-lived enterprise as, Edmund Sr subsequently reverted to the grain business being an elevator inspector for many years.

Russell first found employment as a stenographer for J A Forrester & Co in 1926, aged 18 years. He moved to the Imperial Bank as a clerk.

Rita also worked in banking before becoming an assistant registrar at University of Saskatchewan. Rita married Ralph Kenneth Larmour (1894-1970) and moved to Kansas, USA.

Erma worked as secretary for a series of medical practices up to 1928, thereafter no further trace of her has been found.

Russell married Mary Isabel Rea (1911-1990) at an unknown date. Through the 1950s Russell worked as secretary-treasurer for Bercow & Allan in Vancouver, sharing a house with his parents at 2438 Oliver Crescent. Mary’s parents lived a short distance away on the same street.

Russell died on 29 December 1988 in Vancouver and Mary on 22 August 1990 also in Vancouver.

This family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave Garnett Tree.