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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
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The last time the cousins were together, at John and Lorna's home in Oxfordshire, July 2005.
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
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North Port Carling, June 2010.
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
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Carol with her toy pram in the summer of 1928 'In front of the flat where I was born, Regent St Montreal'.
Carol with her mum Christmas 1960, and Carol with her mum and dad January 1961, Beaconsfield Avenue, Montreal.
Carol and her dad at 19 Painswick Crescent, summer of 1979.
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
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Carol aged 21 in November 1945.
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Monday, November 23, 2020
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Outside their home in Hampton Avenue, Montreal, Carol poses with mum, dad and 'Rita or Patch' in the 1950s. We think the one of Carol wearing an RAF cap was taken earlier by Sara's granddad during WWII when he visited on furlough - on a generous travel pass from the USAF base in California were he was posted!
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Monday, November 23, 2020
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Trips to CNE in 1926 (by the fountain with her mother and great aunt and uncle from the UK), and 1927 (with this note on the back: 'Carol is not making faces at you it was the very strong sun'!)
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Monday, November 23, 2020
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David writes …
My earliest recollection of Carol was not the first time we met, but about 10 years later when Sara and I flew into Pearson to be met by a ‘little old lady’ who grabbed our biggest piece of luggage and started running for the bus, calling ‘C’mon, cousins! It’s a long wait for the next one’. The ‘little old lady’ was just 69, so not much more than I am now: I guess I was quick to judge.
Carol was born Kathleen Carol Hilda Christian in Montreal in 1924, to Thomas Fargher Christian and Jacqueta May Juanita Hopwood. Her dad Tom, with whom she was later to move to Painswick Crescent when that was a new development, was born in the Isle of Man. Carol loved her Manx roots, and was a long-time member of the North American Manx Association’s Ontario chapter. She loved her dad even more, being proud of his service in the Princess Patricia Light Infantry in WWI and on Canada’s railways. On one of her stays with us, we were able to take her to one of the hospitals her dad had spent time at when injured.
She shared with us a deep interest in family history. Sara and her sisters Alison and Marie are related to Carol (second cousins, twice removed) on Carol’s mother’s side, through their dad John Littlejohn. It was at John and Lorna’s home in Oxfordshire that I first met this feisty, direct but good-humoured dynamo we are remembering today. From that time until only a month ago we struck up a correspondence, though as to Carol’s letters we might sometimes struggle to understand her handwriting: “I got a telling-off for that at J Walter Thompson’s, but I never did get any better. What’re you gonna do, kiddo?”
Carol was quite the organiser, and our visits to her would always start with a handover of several weeks’ worth of TTC tokens. On one trip, we landed on a Saturday and asked Carol if we could pop into Agincourt Mall and buy some clothes for our son Robert, whose suitcase we’d left behind. Next morning at St John’s church, we were handed a bag of clothes that she’d asked friends to supply for us.
Her letters often came with a bundle of cuttings from the Star and copies of St John’s orders of service, all annotated with wry comments. From the highs (Christmas and birthdays with friends) to the lows (the sad loss of Ed Cotton hurt a lot) she kept us in touch with what was going on in her life, though some of her later medical issues were left somewhat opaque. Then we’d have to dig a little deeper in phone calls on a Sunday afternoon … we might get lucky.
I remember so many times with Carol in which we were welcomed into her various groups: a family corn-bake, lunch at the senior’s restaurant at Bonis Avenue, St John’s of course and others too numerous to mention. Most of all I remember the sly conspiratorial winks, the mock surprise (“Oh, ya think so?”) and the way her face could collapse into a chuckle.
Rest in peace cousin Carol: I expect Heaven will be flying the Manx flag before long, if it isn’t already …
These photos are from 2006, taken in her back yard at Painswick Crescent. This trip was the first time we got to see the condominium she was later to move to in Bonis Avenue. Naturally, Carol made it possible for Robert to swim in the pool.
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Manx Picnic, July 1994. One of several visits Carol made to the Isle of Man with the North American Manx Association, though on this occasion she was not impressed that the hotel in Douglas thought Canadians would like to celebrate 4th July!
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Carol with her mother and dad.
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Carol c1925
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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Carol with her mother, c1926.
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Sara (Sally) and David Hughes uploaded photo(s)
Sunday, November 22, 2020
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September 2017.
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The family of Miss Carol Christian uploaded a photo
Saturday, November 21, 2020
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