Anne Jean (McKay) Hardy (1913 - 2006)

Born 29 Nov 1913 in Port Arthur, Ont

Ancestors

Wife of Russell Bernard Thrower — married 11 Apr 1942 in First Presbyterian Church

Wife of Norman Hardy — married 24 Mar 1984 in Thunder Bay, Ontario

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 2006 at age 93 in Thunder Bay, Ont

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Biography

Birth

Birth of Annie Jean McKay^[1]

Date: November 29, 1913

Place: Port Arthur, Ontario

Father: McKay Daniel Stewart, Engineer

Mother: Jerrett Minnie

Marriage Date: November 19, 1908

Physician: Dr. J. I. Pratt

Census Data

1921 Canadian Census - 876 Detroit Avenue, Port Arthur, Ontario^[2]

Daniel S. McKay - 38 (1883) b. Scotland; Parents b. Scotland; Immigrated 1890; o. Stationary Engineer; Earnings: $1450

Minnie McKay - 31 (1890) b. Newfoundland; Parents b. Newfoundland; Immigrated 1903

Stewart McKay - 12 (1909) b. Ontario

Donald McKay - 9 (1912) b. Ontario

Annie McKay - 7 (1914) b. Ontario

Patricia McKay - 5 (1916) b. Ontario

Douglas McKay - 3 (1918) b. Ontario

Marion McKay - 1 (1920) b. Ontario

1931 Canada Census - 876 Detroit Avenue, Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada (owned house value $3000, 7 rooms, has radio, Presbyterian)^[3]

Donald McKay (head) - 53 (1878) b. Scotland; parents b. Scotland; Immigration year: 1886; o. Stationary Engineer, Power House earning $2100/yr

Marian McKay (wife) - 42 (1889) b. Newfoundland; parents b. Newfoundland; Immigration year: 1903

Stewart McKay (son) - 22 (1909) b. Ontario; o. Grain sampler earning $700/yr (unemployed 32 weeks 32 weeks)

Donald McKay (son) - 19 (1912) b. Ontario; o. Construction labourer $600/yr (unemployed)

Annie McKay (daughter) - 17 (1914) b. Ontario

Patricia McKay (daughter) - 15 (1916) b. Ontario

Douglas McKay (son) - 13 (1918) b. Ontario

Marian McKay (daughter) - 11 (1920) b. Ontario19

Voters Lists

1949, Port Arthur^[4]

Russell Thrower, Sales Rep; Anne Thrower

Address: 518-2 Red River Road.

1957, Port Arthur^[5]

Russell Thrower, Sales Rep; Anne Thrower

Address: 305 Leslie Avenue.

1962, Port Arthur^[6]

Russell Thrower, Sales Rep; Anne Thrower

Address: 100 Rupert Street.

Obituary

Mrs. Anne Jean Hardy passed away peacefully on Monday, December 11, 2006, in the Palliative Care Unit of St. Joseph's Hospital. Anne was a lifetime resident of Thunder Bay, where she enjoyed life to it's fullest. Family and friends were her greatest joy. She loved, playing bridge, meeting friends for lunches or dinners, travelling to visit loved ones and to learn about new places, studying and practising the art of Tai Chi, taking endless college and university courses well into her "golden years ", and socializing in so many other ways. Anne was a hard working, dedicated lady who was loved and respected by all who knew her. Her passing leaves an emptiness among family and friends that will be difficult to fill, but her time with us taught us about love and compassion; persistence and determination; kindness and faith. She will be sadly missed. Anne was predeceased by her first husband Russell Thrower, in 1963, her second husband Dr. Norman Hardy in 1996, her loving son Jon Thrower in 1997, her parents Donald and Miriam McKay, and several brothers and sisters. She is survived by two grandchildren, Ashlyn and Cameron Thrower, one brother, Dan MacKay, nieces June Boland, Lois Piper and their families, and several other nephews, nieces and relatives. She will hold a special place in all of our hearts forever. Anne's family would like to thank Dr. Stewart Kennedy, the staff of St. Joseph‘s, and all of her many caregivers of the last several months, for their exceptional care and kindness during her illness. As per Anne's wishes, cremation has taken place and interment will happen at a later date. A celebration of Anne's life will be held on Monday, December 18th, 2006 at 11:00am at St. Paul's United Church, 349 Waverly Street. In lieu of flowers, friends who desire may make donations to St. Joseph's Hospital Palliative Care Unit or to the charity of your choice. Rest in peace.

Source: Wednesday, December 13, 2006, Chronicle Journal - Thunder Bay, Ontario

Burial

Final Resting Place of Anne Jean McKay Thrower/Hardy

Riverside Cemetery, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Stone Reference 34-85^[7]

Burial: FindaGrave.

Note

From a transcript of a recorded conversation from August 2005, between brother and sister, Anne Hardy, and Danford MacKay.

DANFORD M – Well in 1940 when the war was in full swing the phony war was over, Marion was in her 20’s and she’d have a lot of her friends around just like they do now and those friends one by one the boys wouldn’t be there anymore and they were overseas. They would just be 18, 19 year old boys. And I would say where’s so and so and she’d say oh, he’s with the armed forces. Then occasionally we’d get a report that so and so was killed. So it was a bad time. I was a little tiny kid. I didn’t have the same feelings as they would have.

GRAEME M – Do you remember that Auntie Anne?

ANNE H – Oh yes, I worked at the CN telegraph, or CP telegraph in the Prince Arthur Hotel and I’d see all the messages coming through. I was a clerk…. Another one the real one was overseas. I had to give up my job at the time – interesting to see all the wires coming in -- Have to go to the minister that looked after them. Somebody would take them over to them, on their bicycle for the minister to contact people.

DANFORD M – That’s how you got your telegrams, they’d deliver them to the house. That was reporting a death of a serviceman.

GRAEME M – So when you’d see the movies you’d always see the military guy showing up.

DANFORD M – No, that was America. You didn’t want to see the telegraph boy.

DANFORD M – Didn’t you and Pat go on a freighter?

ANNE H – Pat worked for a pulp and paper contractor and he knew the captain of this huge freighter and it had guest quarters. We went down as far as Detroit one year, and the other year we went to Buffalo.

DANFORD M – They were all dressed up, we have pictures of this. It was just like they were on a cruise ship.

ANNE H – You could play shuffleboard, and walk around that end of the deck.

GRAEME M – And then you’d eat with these guys.

ANNE H – No, you’d eat with the captain.

DANFORD M – Were there other passengers?

ANNE H – Yes, there was a bank manager and his wife and daughter.

DANFORD M – The Neuronic was also a regular cruise ship.

ANNE H – Yeah they had cruise ships.

DANFORD M – Yes the Neuronic Bern. In Toronto.

GRAEME M – I guess that was a way of getting around, of taking a trip.

ANNE H – Oh yeah, a lot of people did that. You didn’t have the nice highways in those days. How did we go down to Hamilton? We drove down through the States, and took the ferry across, I guess. But that was the best way to go at the time.

GRAEME M – So what other jobs did you have, Auntie Anne? After you were working at the hotel you moved on.

ANNE H – After I worked at the dairy, and it was a good job, and I worked at that CN or CP telegraph, I can’t even remember, it was only 6 months and then I got in with Marathon Corporation, a subsidiary of American Can, and I worked there 18 years. Then they moved to Marathon and I didn’t want to go down there so I worked for Canada Permanent which is Canada Trust now, for 15 years. -- Seven years in the dairy. I took 2 and a half years – when you had a child you had to quit your job and that was it. By the time Jon was 2 and a half, or 2 they had changed that. Then I moved on to Marathon, and they moved to the mill site, then I went to Canada Permanent and then Canada Trust and I worked for them for 15 years. I worked forty some odd years.

DANFORD M – I’ve worked 43 come to think of it.

ANNE H – It was mostly secretarial and accounting work. And I taught in for a number of years at Con College, at night school…

DANFORD M – Up there.

ANNE H – in typing and short hand. They wanted me to go on as a permanent teacher but I decided it wasn’t interesting enough, typing and short hand, I had interesting jobs.

GRAEME M – Typing and short hand have become completely obsolete.

ANNE H – Yeah, but at the time it was as important as computers.

DANFORD M – You could do short hand as fast as you could talk. I tried her out a couple of times.

GRAEME M – Are you still able to do it?

ANNE H – Oh yeah, but I can’t do it at the same speed.

DANFORD M – Can you type?

ANNE H – Oh yeah, I take the typewriter out once and a while when I want to make it special.

DANFORD M – When you want to make it legible.

GRAEME M – Well Auntie Anne you’re known for your writing, which is sometimes half writing and…

ANNE H -- …and you can’t read it.

GRAEME M – Exactly.

DANFORD M – Well she used to write letters and always add something at the side.

ANNE H – In the margins.

DANFORD M – Where ever she could fit it in.

ANNE H – I said to somebody since they remarked about that that I’ve got to stop that. Well, I wouldn’t go into another page because I didn’t think I was going to write that much. I said I have to stop, and they said, no don’t, I don’t know anyone else who does that. I got laughs for that.

DANFORD M – That’s your trademark.

GRAEME M – That is a trademark.

DANFORD M – But it’s not the most legible trademark.

Newspaper Clippings

Annie Jean McKay marriage to Russell Thrower, published on April 13, 1942 (with photo), pg. 5, Port Arthur Daily News and Port Arthur News-Chronicle^[8]

External Link

YouTube Video - The Thrower family between 1958 and 1960. Filmed by Stuart McKay in Port Arthur. Miriam McKay, Jon Thrower, Anne Thrower, Russ Thrower.

FindaGrave.com - Riverside Cemetery, Thunder Bay, Ontario

Sources

• WikiTree profile McKay-434 created through the import of Danford MacKay Family(2).ged on Feb 3, 2012 by Graeme MacKay. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Graeme and others.

1. ↑ Archives of Ontario. Registrations of Births and Stillbirths – 1869-1913. MS 929, reels 1-245 (244). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Archives of Ontario. Reg# 057643
2. ↑ 1921 Census, Enumeration district 26, Page 18, Digital number 19 of 21 of Sub-District 26 (Third Ward) http://interactive.ancestry.ca/8991/1921_082-e003029450?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.ca%2fsearch%2fdb.aspx%3fdbid%3d8991%26path%3d&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnBrowsing#?imageId=1921_082-e003029863
3. ↑ Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Seventh Census of Canada, 1931; Folder Number: T-27290; Census Place: Port Arthur (045), Ontario, Canada; Page Number: 29
4. ↑ Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Voters Lists, Federal Elections, 1935-1980; Reel: M-4841.
5. ↑ Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Voters Lists, Federal Elections, 1935-1980; Reel: M-4929.
6. ↑ Library and Archives Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Voters Lists, Federal Elections, 1935-1980; Reel: M-5040.
7. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 November 2018), memorial page for Anne Jean McKay Thrower/Hardy (29 Nov 1913–11 Dec 2006), Find A Grave Memorial no. 99709299, citing Riverside Cemetery, Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada ; Maintained by G. Patrick MacKay (contributor 47251135) .
8. ↑ Index of News, Photos and Social Notices as published in The Port Arthur Daily News and Port Arthur News-Chronicle 1915 - 1942