Georgetown Vital Statistics: 1951-1953

flywheel of a woodcutting saw he was working at, became loose and threw out parts of the saw. He is survived by his parents Mr. & Mrs. William Prosper, three brothers: Wilfred, William and Ernest and six sisters: Myrtle (Mrs. Robert McGuigan), Montague, P.E.l.', Elsie (Mrs. Peter MacDonald), Pembroke, Ont.; Frances, R.N. (Mrs. Hugh Power), Montague, P.E.l.,; Julia, RN. ( Mrs. William Hennessey), Charlottetown, Veronica (Mrs. Leo Chaisson), Georgetown and Anna, Georgetown. (From Guardian, Oct. 20 & Oct. 21, 1953)

B. “At the Charlottetown Hospital, on Oct. 30, 1953, to Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Lavandier, Georgetown, a daughter, Judy Elizabeth.”(Guardian, Nov. 3, 1953)

B. “At the Charlottetown Hospital, Oct. 29th 1953, to Mr. & Mrs. Phil. Boudreault, a son, 9 lbs 6 025” (Guardian, Nov. 5, 1953)

M. At Wesley United Church, Springhill, N.S., Oct. 10, 1953, Rev. W.T. Mercer officiating, Martha Elizabeth King, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Daniel King of Georgetown and Joseph Kinnear, son of Mr. & Mrs.

Joseph Kinnear, of Jolicure, N .B.. Attendants were Mr. & Mrs. Ray Dupuis.” (Guardian, Nov. 6, 1953)

Baptisms at St, James Church, Georgetown, P.E.l. Nov. 8, 1953: Peter Jeffrey, son of Mr. & Mrs. Marcellus Gotell with Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Gotell as sponsors; James Andrew, son of Mr. & Mrs. Philip Boudreault, with Felix Morrison and Mrs. Gerald Morrison as sponsors; Judy Elirabeth, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Lavandier with Mr. & Mrs. Ambrose McGregor, St. Mary’s Road, as sponsors (From Guardian, “Georgetown and Vicinity,” Nov. 13, 1953)

M. In London, England, Oct. 24, 1953, Mary 0. Lamb, to Derek MacKinnon, son of Mr. Alex MacKinnon of Georgetown, P.E.l.. The groom is attached to the Canadian Embassy in Moscow, Russia. (From “Georgetown and Vicinity”, Guardian, Nov. 20, 1953)

M. At First United Church, Hamilton, Ont, on Oct. 24, 1953, Rev. Dr. Melville E. Aitken officiating, Mary Catherine Martel], daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Martell, Georgetown, P.E.l., and Donald King, son of Mr. & Mrs. Daniel King, Georgetown, P.E.l.. (From Guardian, Nov. 27, 1953)

B. “At the P.E.l. Hospital, Nov. 22, 1953, to Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rutherford (nee Elinor Hobbs, R.N.), Georgetown, a son, David Hobbs, weight 8 lbs”) (Guardian, Nov. 28, 1953)

D. At Sydney, C.B., Nov. 11, John A. Renton, aged 74. He was born in Georgetown, P.E.I. and left there in 1901 for employment with Dominion Steel and became foundry superintendent. Besides his wife and family he leaves to mourn his brother Tom and sisters, Mae and

Ethel in Georgetown, P.E.l. (From Guardian, Nov. 28, 1953)

D. At her home in Georgetown, Dec. 8, 1953, Mrs. Hector MaeKinuon, said to be 103 years of age. She was born as Ellen MacDonald, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John MacDonald, Georgetown Royalty, but moved to nearby Burnt Point when she married Hector MacKinnon, seventy-seven years ago. Her husband predeceased her in 1903 and she has outlived all her family of six sons and one daughter. In 1946, after the

death of her last son, she moved with his widow, Ella MacKinnnon, to Georgetown. Her obituary says “the gaelic, she learned as a child from her pioneering parents, as she did the arts of weaving, spinning and candle- making, and were practiced almost daily for many years of her lifetime”. She has been bereft of sight since 1938. Funeral from St. James Church. (From Guardian, Dec. 9, 1953)

B. “At the King’s County Hospital, Dec. 15 to Mr. & Mrs. Richard Curley, Georgetown Royalty, a daughter, weight 8 lbs 11 ozs. (Guardian, Dec. 16, 1953)

B. “At the King’s County Hospital, Dec. 15th to Mr. & Mrs. Robert MeGuigan (nee Myrtle Prosper), Montague, a son, Vincent Robert, weight, 8 lbs 4 1/2 025” (Guardian, Dec. 16, 1953)

D. In Ottawa, at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Hempstock, on Dec. 29, 1953, John A. MacKinnon in his 83rd year. He was born in Georgetown, the son of John MacKinnon and Jeanette Duff. He married Christine Skinner who died 4 years, 5 months ago. He was purser on the S.S. Electra and S.S. Enterprire, and then bookkeeper for Brstem Canncries before he became a grocer first at the comer of Grafton and Kent and later at the corner of Richmond and Kent, until he sold his business in 1937 to Ashley Allen. He was Presbyterian and a Conservative in politics. Burial was in Ottawa. (Guardian, Dec. 30, 1953)