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Anne Elizabeth McLennan 1894-1985

Anne Elizabeth McLennan was born at Beaver Point on Salt Spring Island

March 16, 1894. She attended Beaver Point School and enjoyed working with her parents on the farm. All her life, her religion meant a great deal to her.

For several years, Anne trained as a nurse at St Joseph’s Hospital in Victoria. She did not finish her training because one day when she was about twenty-three, she went to Stewart’s Shoe Store to buy some shoes and was served by William Stewart, the son of the proprietor. This led to courtship and marriage. The Stewarts lived in Victoria for a few years and then moved to Vancouver. Anne lived on Morningside Drive on Salt Spring in her later years.

Anne was frail for a couple of years and died on Salt Spring May 19, 1985 at the age of ninety-one. She is buried in the Burgoyne United Churchyard with her son Bill, who was killed in a logging accident on Moresby Island in 1955, her parents and two brothers.