| Name |
Caroline Elizabeth McLaren |
| Birth |
16 Sep 1897 |
Drummond-North Elmsley Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada  [1] |
| Christening |
24 Feb 1898 |
Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
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Poole - McLaren bible info re baptisms
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| Gender |
Female |
| Census-Household Member |
1901 |
Drummond-North Elmsley Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada [2] |
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1901 Census North Elmsley, Lanark William Alexander McLaren Sr.
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| Census-Household Member |
1911 |
Drummond-North Elmsley Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada [3] |
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1901 Census North Elmsley, Lanark William Alexander McLaren Sr.
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| Occupation |
May to Sep 1918 |
Invermay, Rural Municipality of Invermay No. 305, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Returns from mission work in Saskatchewan |
- Returns from the Mission Field
Miss C. McLaren Returns from Saskatchewan to enter McGill
Miss Caroline McLaren, BA, daughter of Mr and Mrs William McLaren, Scotch Line, has returned from Saskatchewan where she has been in charge of a mission for five months. Miss McLaren was one of the pioneer lady volunteer missionaries selected last spring by the Presbyterian Board of Missions to fill the vacancies caused by the scarcity of male students, many of whom had answered their country's call and were overseas. Miss McLaren expressed herself as having enjoyed her work greatly and as an evidence that the people of her congregation's appreciated her efforts, they presented her with a purse of money and an address, on the ever of her departure for the east.
After a short visit with her parents, Miss McLaren went to Montreal where she will enter McGill to study medicine.
The address is as follows:
Invermay, Sask., Sept 20th, 1918.
Dear Miss McLaren:
We are gathered here this evening to bid farewell to you, and also to try ina little way, to show the esteem in which you are held by one and all in this district.
We are honored, indeed, with being one of the few missions in all of Canada having a lady minister.
We feel certain that no other person would have come into our district and entered into the work with such spirit and zeal, as you have shown ever since you took up the work among us.
We have enjoyed your company, and also your splendid addresses, and feel that your work has been an uplift to the whole community.
Words fail to express our sorrow at losing your service, but we know that our loss will be another's gain.
We wish you every success in the near future and ask you to kindly accept this little gift as a token of our appreciation.
Presented on behalf of the congregation of Invermay and Margo.
Perth Courier
4 Oct 1918
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| _UID |
B27AB32FD6E942578EE2A5CA0DBB0DE1FBEF |
| Death |
29 Jun 1997 |
St Catharines, Niagara Regional Municipality (Lincoln), Ontario, Canada |
- Caroline McLaren Holmes
McLaren, Caroline Holmes was born on the Scotch Line, Perth, on September 16, 1897, a daughter of William and Caroline McLaren. She was predeceased by sisters Beryl and Hilda, and brother John and William and her nephew Dr. Reginald Edwards.
She leaves surviving her: Russell A. Edwards, QC, nephew (he and his brother Reginald are sons of Beryl McLaren Bradley Edwards); Elizabeth Caroline Wonnacott, a grand niece; Peter Edwards, a grand nephew; Jennifer Wonnacott, a great-great-niece; Michael Wonnacott, a great-great-nephew; Eric Edwards, a grand-nephew; Valerie Edwards, a grandniece; Cameron Edwards, a great-great-nephew; and Annika Edwards, a great-great-niece.
Caroline graduated with a gold medal in Science from Queen's University and was the first female theological graduate from Knox College University of Toronto, where she received a divinity degree. She taught Science and Physical Education in several Ontario high schools. She married George Holmes in 1942 and together they travelled the world.
After her marriage she lived in Wellandport until confined to a nursing home in St. Catharines, where she passed away peacefully on June 29, 1997, in her 100th year. Caroline is buried beside her husband in the Wellandport cemetery.
If anyone has any memories or photos of Caroline or the McLaren family, it would be greatly appreciated if you would contact her nephew, Russell Edwards, at (519) 621-0222 or 50 Hillcrest Dr., Cambridge, Ontario, N1S 3M2.
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| Burial |
Wellandport (Riverside) Cemetery, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada |
| Notes |
- The story that follows came from Evelyn Eberhardt, a great granddaughter of Caroline's grandfather, William Alexander McLaren (1806-1894):
Caroline never weighed more than about 125 pounds and had black hair ? a lot of it when I saw her in 1985 at age 87 years.
The Presbyterian Church sent young girls to many foreign countries. We know that she was in Japan and China for sure. When she and her husband George decided to make a trip back to China they hired a small airplane to take them to a place where she had done missionary work. On the way there the pilot had a heart attack. She took over and flew the plane the rest of the way. They were both in their 70's at this time. She had learned to fly as a young woman.
When I visited her in 1985 the staff at the home where she lived thought all her talk about world travel was in her imagination.
When her husband died they lived in Wellandport, Ontario. When she died in 1907 at the age of 100 years, she left her million dollars to the Presbyterian Church.
posted bu david_j_mclaren on Ancestry
- (Research):E. Miller notes Sept 16 1897?
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| Person ID |
I3381 |
Lanark County Origins | My Paternal Grandmother's Branch, This is my paternal Lineage, My Great Grandmother's Lineage (paternal) |
| Last Modified |
11 Mar 2024 |
| Father |
William Alexander McLaren, Jr., b. 12 Mar 1846, Elmsley North Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 19 Jan 1929, Scotch Line, Burgess North Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada (Age 82 years) |
| Mother |
Caroline Matilda "Carrie" Poole, b. 14 Jan 1866, Elmsley North Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada d. 24 Sep 1958, Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada (Age 92 years) |
| Marriage |
9 Sep 1896 |
Drummond-North Elmsley Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada |
| Family ID |
F1006 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1897 - 1997 (99 years)
