Obituary of a cousin in Toronto

[Lesleyann]

Thank you so much for that. The time it was sold would coincide with the probable date I have for Grant's death. His parents lived in Niantic Crescent which doesn't seem very far away.

Lesleyann

[RunKitty]

I tried again to find him in the Toronto papers.  He doesn't show up with a simple name search, so I have been using his wife's name, children's names, sister's name, parents' names - and thanks to Sandra, his address/street name.   No luck   That doesn't mean that the obituary isn't in the papers...it just means that the search engine isn't picking it up.  This sometimes happens.  If we had an actual date of death, I could read the obits on that date and for a few days afterwards (sometimes how I have to find obits...  ).  But, I see that you are trying to find the obit to get the date of death...

Sorry

RK

[*Sandra*]

Really strange that there are not many sightings.  Not even one of the son jnr. Wonder if he had other names ?  No idea what the daughters were called.

Sandra

[Lesleyann]

Thanks both.  It's really strange that he seems to have just vanished.  I do know the daughters' and son's names from Grant's mother's funeral but, as they are still living, I'm reluctant to put them here. The daughters may well have married so their names would have changed.
 I'm very grateful for your help.

Lesleyann

[*Sandra*]

Don't worry I have the daughters names - sometimes it helps to trace a family - although this family seem very elusive for some reason.
When did they move to Toronto ?

Sandra

[Lesleyann]

Maud and Alex emigrated when they were children and married in Toronto in 1924. Both children were born in Toronto.  My father used to visit them during the war when he was with the RAF in Canada. That would have been in the early 1940s and they were in the house in Niantic Crescent then. I seem to remember someone telling me there'd been a bit of a family feud when the house next door went up for sale and both Grant and Shirley-Joyce wanted to buy it. Grant lost the argument and was estranged from Shirley-Joyce after that.

Lesleyann

[DonM]

There must have been another Niantic in Toronto.  In 1940 the place you see today in Google Maps was all farmland.  And it was pretty much the same in 1950's.  Toronto never started to expand until the mid 1960's.  The places identified in your post didn't exist until the 1970's.

https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/datapub/digital/G_3525_T6G45_1950.htm

You would need to access an earlier City Directory.

Don

[Lesleyann]

Thanks, Don.  I have a photograph of my father with some RAF friends outside a house and he's written the date, 1942 and Niantic Crescent, Toronto, on the back. Obviously not the same one, then.  Back to the drawing board!


Lesleyann

[RunKitty]

Hi,

Right - Niantic didn't exist in the City of Toronto in 1942...you can look in the directory.  The first section is by names, the last bit of the directory is by street. 

Depends when your Dad got around to writing on the back of his photographs.....he may have done the writing many years after his 1942 visit...when the family was living on Niantic. 

Found an Alex B Fisher in 1942 and 1943- living at 26 Callendar, Toronto.  He was credit manager at Monarch Brass. 

https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1942/page/n685/mode/2up

1944 and 1945 at 128 Dowling Ave

https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1944/page/n633/mode/2up

1949 voters list has Alex, Maude, Grant and Shirlie all at 148 Dowling.

I see when they married in 1924, Alexander was a clerk. 

RK