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The Daily Review newspaper--April 07th 1909 Edition....-PORTAGE‘S OLDEST WHITE SETTLER :
Ann (Garrioch) Bird, was born April 6 1826 the daughter of William Garrioch and Nancy Cook. She married Frederick Adolphus Bird in 1843.
Ann came to Portage la Prairie fifty-five years ago with her husband, and they built the first house in Portage. Her husband was the first member of parliament for the constituency, as well as Portage's first postmaster. Bird had five children: two daughters, Mrs. George Bates and Miss Marie Bird; and three sons in Star City, Saskatchewan. She has twenty grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren.
Her father was William Garrioch, factor of the Hudson Bay Company, her mother Nancy Cook and her grandfather, William Cook, was chief factor. So she is linked strongly with the far distant past.. ing all these years she and her family have always been very faithful in the discharge of their duties to the local Anglican church.
Died 6 May 1919 of ‘bronchitis’ Portage La Prairie MB; buried 8 May 1919 St. Mary’s cemetery, Portage La Prairie MB.
Variety of newspaper articles on her 93rd birthday * https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/105477755/newspaper-write-ups-about-anne-garrioch-bird
Marriage Record: Canadiana Héritage; Parish registers: St Boniface, Manitoba, Reel H-1344, Image 1337,* http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_h1344/1401?r=1&s=1
Mothers of the Resistance 1869–1870 Red River Métis Genealogies https://resistancemothers.wordpress.com/about/bird/?msclkid=04d20aeda55711eca613a4ad3bc2e2d7
Listed in the 1870 and 1881 Canada Census https://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?app=Census1870&op=img&id=e010985655
Record of her burial in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada * https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51494464/anne-bird
Listed on page 3 of this docuiment with family details https://glenbow.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/m-8736-34.pdf?msclkid=5354ee75a55811ec92e278c3c15ee3d9
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