Olive (Harrison) Cashion (1898 - 1976)

Born 1898 in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 24 Mar 1976 at about age 78 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Biography

Olive Harrison, daughter of John George Harrison and Louise "Ellen" Hemingway, was born in 1898 in Yorkshire, England and the youngest Sibling of Gertrude Harrison and Ernest Harrison

Immigration Canada^[1], arrived in 1910 at age 12.

Olive married James Cashion and had children

1. George Allan Cashion (1921-1944)

Reader Gloria Parkinson helped The Suburban to track down relatives of James and Olive Cashion, parents of Flying Officer Allan Cashion, by recalling that his mother (right) was related to Montreal magnate Dent Harrison, who founded Harrison Bakeries. ^[2] throught Allan, 1950s, knew that his mother, ..Olive (Harrison) Cashion, was related to Harrison Bakeries magnate Dent Harrison, whose sons founded Montreal’s famous POM Bakeries. That permitted The Suburban to track down his great-grandson, Peter T. Harrison, who confirmed that Olive’s father was Dent Harrison’s brother, John George Harrison. “According to the census of England in 1871,” explained Mr. Harrison, “he was the older brother of Dent Harrison. There were three brothers and one sister, and her mother’s name was Louise Hemmingway.” He added that F/O Cashion wasn’t the only member of the family to serve as an RCAF aviator during World War II. (Peter T. Harrison comments) “My uncle, my father’s brother "Greg Harrison" also flew with the RCAF and was shot down over Germany, where he spent the rest of the conflict as a prisoner of war.”

Burial: Urgel Bourgie Memorial Gardens in Montreal, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H2Y-14Y : Olive Harrison, Jun 1910; citing Immigration, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, T-4768, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
2. ↑ newscoverage Harrison-Cashion families
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 13 February 2020), memorial page for Olive HarrisonCashion (1898–24 Mar 1976),  Find A Grave: Memorial #116534715, citing Urgel Bourgie Memorial Gardens, Montreal, Montreal Region, Quebec, Canada ; Maintained by Graceti (contributor 47177702) .