| 1. | Hugh Bertram "Bert" Gibson was born on 17 Feb 1894 in Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 3 Jan 1966 in Puslinch Twp, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Crown Cemetery, Morriston, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Other Events and Attributes:
- FamilySearch ID: GS13-LTH
- FindaGrave Memorial ID: 244408185
- Name: Bertrim
- _UID: 22BB11B051BE425FB7EAC9D45E2F8362FE39
- Census-Household Member: 1906, Strathcona, Alberta, Canada; Canada
- Residence-Occupant: 1906, Strathcona, Alberta, Canada; 15-40-27-W4
- Census-Household Member: 1911, Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada; Canada
- Residence-Occupant: 1911, Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada
- Census-Household Member: 1916, Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada; Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
- Residence-Occupant: 1916, Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada; 40-27-W4-6
- Residence: 1936, Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada
- Residence: 1939, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada; move to Ontario
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Bert was eight years old when his family moved from Perth Ontario to Lacombe Alberta in 1901. He would have taken his schooling in Lacombe and probably worked on the family farm before enlisting in the army at age 21. He went overseas in July 1915 with the 12th Mounted Rifles to fight in WWI. Between front-line tours of duty, he met up with his older brother Murray in England and while on furlough the two visited Janet Gibson in Kirkbean, Scotland. Janet was the last of our line living in Scotland. Bert was exposed to gas on the front that left him with a rheumatic heart, a condition from which he never fully recovered. After his discharge in Feb. 1918 Bert worked several years in Alberta for the Soldiers Settlement Board and later with the CNR Land Settlement Dept. (see photo of business card). In 1939, after the death of his older sister "Maggie", Bert apparently arranged the sale of the Lacombe farm and moved his family to where his wife grew up near Guelph Ont. Bert visited his neice Marjory in Renfrew until the 1950's.
Died:
H.B. Gibson Dies Suddenly at His Puslinch Farm Home
H.B. (Bert) Gibson, returning officer for Wellington South for every feeral election since 1949, died Monday of a heart attack at his Puslinch farm. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Gibson served as returning officer for the Wellington South Riding in the past seven federal elections, and was one of the oldest returning officers in Canada in terms of service.
Born in Perth, Ontario, Mr. Gibson moved to Alberta with his parents when he was a youngster. The Gibsons settled on a farm near the site of the present experimental farm at Lacombe, Alta., and Mr Gibson received his education in that province.
After 3 1/2 years overseas during the First World War, he returned home in the spring of 1918, but due to the effects of the war was unable to farm.
He accepted a position with the Soldiers' Settlement Board as an appraiser in the Peace River District, later switched to a job with the Canadian National Railway as a settlements officer for two years, then returned to the Soldiers' Settlement Board and worked in Edmonton.
In 1927 he married Annie Richardson, a native of Guelph, in a ceremony at Edmonton.
The Gibsons moved to Guelph in 1938 and settled at their RR1, Puslinch farm. From 1946 until the early 1960s, Mr. Gibson was on the advisory committee of the Veterans Land Administration in Guelph.
Active in Legion work, he was a member of Branch 234 of the Canadian Legion.
He was also a member of the International Order of Oddfellows and Dufferin Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are his wife, Annie; one daugher, Mrs. Gerry Kruyf of Guelph, and two sons, George of Dryden and Alan of Puslinch. He was predeceased by one daughter, Barbara.
The body is at the George Wall Funeral Home, where service will be held at 2 pm Thursday.
Burial will be in Crown Cemetery, Puslinch.
Hugh married Annie McKay Gertrude "Ann" Richardson on 7 Sep 1927. Annie (daughter of Charles Richardson) was born in 1896 in Puslinch Twp, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1993; was buried in Crown Cemetery, Morriston, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Alan Gibson
- 3. Marion Jean Gibson was born on 17 Jan 1929; died on 9 Jan 1972 in Rocky Mountain House, Clear Water, Alberta, Canada.
- 4. George Bertram Gibson was born on 1 Apr 1933 in Red Deer, Red Deer Census Division, Alberta, Canada; died on 9 Dec 1993 in Guelph, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Crown Cemetery, Morriston, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
- 5. Barbara Ann Gibson was born on 21 Oct 1934 in Alberta, Canada; died in 1950; was buried in Crown Cemetery, Morriston, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
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1894 - 1966 (71 years)
