Mary (Heitmann) Card (1911 - 1994)

Born 28 Jan 1911 in Tofield, Alberta, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Arthur John Freeland Card — married 21 Feb 1931 in Tofield, Alberta, Canada

Descendants

Died 18 Jun 1994 at age 83 in Fort Frances, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

Mary was born in winter 1911, the second daughter and third and final child of Henry Heitmann and Anna Knechtel.^[1] The Heitmann family lived primarily on their homestead at NE-14-51-21-W4, south of Cooking Lake.^[2][3]

Heitmann Homesteads Early 1900s

In winter 1931, at age 20, Mary married 20-year old English immigrant farmer Jack Card, at Tofield.^[4] The pair's first child was born three months later, as revealed in the 1931 Canada census.^[5]

Mary had four children ... with her first husband Jack Card; and one son, Neil named for the second husband. Mary and Neil moved to Fort [Frances], Ontario in 1945 where Mary resided until she passed away. ^[6]

The foregoing quote may be augmented and corrected as follows. Mary and Jack Card appear to have had three children together during the 1930s, rather than four. Mary had son Neil by Minnesota serviceman Neil Dahlstrom, who was with the US Army Air Command stationed in Edmonton during WWII. Mary and Neil Dahlstrom were apparently never married. After the war when Neil Dahlstrom returned to his native Minnesota, Mary and Neil Jr lived in Fort Frances, across the border from International Falls, MN.

The details surrounding Mary's split with her husband are currently unclear. Jack Card was serving in Europe with the Canadian Military during WWII. Mary placed her children from her Card marriage with foster families in Alberta, while she and her youngest relocated to Fort Frances.

Mary Card passed away in spring 1994.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Fifth Census of Canada, 1911, Alberta, Strathcona No. 6, S. District Ministic, Enumeration District 26, Township 51, Range 21, West of 4th Meridian, page 2, lines 40-42, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1911&op=pdf&id=e001932818
2. ↑ Census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, 1916, Alberta, Strathcona, Cornhill, Enumeration District 14, 51-21-W4, page 7, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1916&op=pdf&id=31228_4363983-00917
3. ↑ Sixth Census of Canada, 1921, Alberta, District No. 11 Strathcona, Enumeration Sub-District No. 9, Corn Hill Municipality, page 3, lines 27-29, https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1921&op=pdf&id=e002864772
4. ↑ Province of Alberta, Marriage Record, Reg. No. 152/1931
5. ↑ Seventh Census of Canada, 1931, Alberta, Electoral District East Edmonton 218, Enumeration Sub-District No. 26, Edmonton City, page 18, lines 42-44, https://central2.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?id=e011750901&app=census1931&op=img
6. ↑ South Cooking Lake Heritage Committee, "A Fond Look Back From The New Millennium, South Cooking Lake", December 15, 2000, Sherwood Print & Copy, pp. 112-115 (Heitman)
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #83553746