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11 February 2025

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MARION GRANT

Marion Grant was born on 30 August 1892 in London, Middlesex,Ontario to Archibald Grant (1850-1910) & Margaret (Maggie) McCrae (1860-1965). Marion had one brother, Archibald Leslie (1887-1950) and one sister, Margaret Ethel (1888-1975). Archibald Sr was a farmer and sometime store-keeper and post-master.

Archibald Jr, Margaret Ethel & Marion came to Saskatoon in 1912; Archibald as a cement contractor, Margaret Ethel worked as a stenographer for J H Ashdown Hardware and Marion worked as a stenographer for Massey-Harris. They initially lived at 312 Ave E North but moved to 922 9th Ave N in 1915. Maggie joined them and kept house.

Archibald rapidly established himself in partnership with Daniel Richardson forming Grant & Richardson, Real Estate & Insurance Agents. Archibald is variously described as contractor and farmer until he moved away from Saskatoon in the 1920s. He married Jean Gordon Ross (1887-1965) and they had two children. He died on 15 June 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Margaret Ethel subsequently trained as a nurse and worked at the City Hospital in Saskatoon for thirty years until she retired in 1950. She moved to Victoria, British Columbia and married Charles William Downer (1884-1960) an Anglican priest. She died on 20 February 1975 in Victoria.

Marion joined the Quaker Oats Company as a stenographer in 1915 and remained with the company until she retired in 1952 having held the post of head stenographer for a number of years. She had worked for the Quaker Oats Company for 37 years. She continued to live at 922 9th Ave N until her mother’s death in 1965 when she moved probably to live with her sister in Victoria. She died on 20 May 1979 in Surrey, British Columbia.

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