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11 February 2025

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GLADYS MARGARET HANCHARD

Gladys Margaret Hanchard was born on 11 September 1898 in Hackney, London, England to Joseph Hanchard (1867-1898) and Margaret Foster (1866-1939). Gladys had one sibling Alan Joseph (1897-1968). Gladys’s father died before she was born.

Gladys with her mother and brother sailed from Liverpool on SS ‘Virginian’ arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 8 April 1910.

They headed for Saskatoon and by the following year, Alan had found work as a clerk for Royal Bank of Canada (He was fourteen years old). Two years later the family had moved to 1615 Coy Ave, Saskatoon. Alan was a clerk at the Court House and Gladys was a student.

On 24 December 1914, Alan enlisted in the 53rd Battalion of the CEF. He was seventeen years old. He served throughout WWI and returned to work as a clerk for National Trust Co. Alan married Ethel Winnifred ? in about 1920. Ethel died on 26 April 1940 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon. Alan subsequently married Agnes Maude Sowden (b 1890). Alan died in Vancouver on 27 July 1968.

Gladys’s mother Margaret also moved to Vancouver and found work as a domestic servant. She later returned to Saskatoon where she died on 18 December 1939 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Saskatoon.

Gladys taught at Sutherland School, Saskatoon in 1918-1919. She married George Voysey Brown (1897-1964) in about 1920 and they moved to Vancouver. Gladys and George had two children, Helen M and John. George worked for the Soldiers Settlement Board and then Customs & Excise. George died on 26 March 1964 in Vancouver. Gladys died 22 February 1977 also in Vancouver.

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