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The Canadian Census years were 1911, 1921 and 1931.
There is a Canadian Prairie census of 1916 for Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta.
Mona was in Ontario so no other document available online.

Did try and investigate the St Clair part of her name in relations to those families but sadly drew a blank. 

Sandra

Thank you. I saw the 1916 Prairie census too.
I think some time ago  I saw   that there was a church or cemetery named St Clair somewhere that had a connection to Mona .

 That's very vague but at the time I hadn't got into all of this parentage confusion with her so didn't take that much notice.

Thank you.

Unless there is a marriage record for Jack Mason to Eleanor Laing, someone probably wrote or heard the wrong name. Have you seen an actual marriage record showing those names ?
If you have can you give a link or post a copy please.

There is already a discrepancy over the fathers name on Alma's marriage document !!

The maiden name of the mother of Alma was wrong on her death certificate, should be Margaret and they put May Laing !!!
 
The mother in law details were put on the death certificate for Mona when it asks for the maiden name of her mother !!

I wonder if John and Alma ever got divorced. It was so expensive then, sometimes people didn't bother 
Someone else probably filled in the information on the 1940/50 census forms !!

Other petitions, declarations etc say John Mason was not married which seems correct.

The family of Harry William Springett don't even mention Alma as his wife in his obituary, they only mention the late Isabella !! Strange !!

So as I said before, "Never believe everything you read on census or other documents,  the information is only as good as the informants knowledge or who fills that information in"
 
 


Sandra

Thank you.
Yes, I noticed they didn't mention Alma.
I found a newspaper obituary for Bella Springett and it seems she died from self inflicted throat injuries😔

Ancestry brought up this in hints.
I can't find the record on FamilySearch even though it appears they have Ontario ,Canada
marriages indexed  for that period.

1918 US WW1 Draft for John Norman Mason - names sister Lucy - person who will always know him.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BR5-R4P?i=4715&cc=1968530&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AKZNG-545

On a petition in 1939 he mentions married alma in Shelborne NS 1906 (as per petition - see below)

1940 census  - Boston Suffolk Massachusetts

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4JR-ZBT

WW2 Draft -

John Norman Mason -Birth Date   1 Mar 1881   Lunenberg, Canada
Residence Place   Suffolk, Massachusetts
Military Draft Date   1942
Next of Kin   Mrs Francis Ryan


1950 census - Boston Suffolk Massachusetts

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F33-B9WQ

I found a birth registration on the Nova Scotia vital statistics link . John Norman Mason b 1881 but registering his own birth in 1924..He gives his address as Boston Massachusetts.
He actually has 2 birth registration records  as his sister Lilly L also  registered it in 1945.

So on the 1950  census he states he's a widow, however Alma Mason nee Laing married Charles W Stobbs in 1920.

Lewis Gordon Springett - Birth Date   8 Mar 1912 Halton, Ontario, Canada
Father    Harry William Springett Mother    Bella De Foust.

If that was the correct birth for Lewis/Louis, then there should be a female birth - it looks like they were the same age - twins ?

marriage of Harry and Bella was 2 April 1912

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS8H-3ML

Sandra

But Mona's parents were Jack Mason and Eleanor Laing, so she couldn't be a twin to Lewis. Am I not understanding what you're saying?

However...........on the death certificate, the details vary

Yes. I saw this.
Annie Jackson is Mona's  MIL ie the mother of Charles Stobbs. I assumed they'd put that because they couldn't remember her mother's name , but it would have made more sense to put Isabella de Forrest who was Harry Wm Springetts wife as that' s who they've documented as her father? Rather strange.