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Tarbox died at a hospital in Edmonton on May 18, 2003, at the age of 42 from brain cancer and lung cancer. On December 5, 2003, Barb Tarbox was posthumously awarded the Meritorious Service Medal [2] by Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, for devotion to the anti-smoking cause.
Amber Alyssa Tuccaro (3 January 1990 – disappeared 18 August 2010) was a Canadian First Nations woman from Fort McMurray, Alberta, who went missing in 2010. Tuccaro was last seen near Edmonton, hitchhiking with an unidentified man. Her remains were found in 2012. As of 2024, her case is still unsolved.
Nellie McClung (1873–1951), first woman appointed to the Board of Governors of the CBC (1936); one of The Famous Five [23] Emily Murphy (1868–1933), first female magistrate in British Empire and petitioned Supreme Court of Canada to allow women the vote; one of the Famous Five; [24] has received modern scrutiny for her support for eugenics
Jeannie Saffin was born in Edmonton, London [4] with birth defects that caused intellectual disabilities, limiting her cognitive function to the level of a child. She was 61 years old when she died. On the evening of September 15, 1982, she was in her family's home in Edmonton with her father, Jack Saffin, and her brother-in-law, Don Carroll.
Elnora bella Procter was born on june 27th, 1923, in Edmonton, Alberta. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Her parents were of Black and Creole heritage and were originally from the State of Oklahoma . They were drawn to the area by a 1906 advertisement to purchase a quarter section (160 acres (65 ha)) of land for $10, among more than 10,000 Black homesteaders who ...
Judi's parents, Effie Jones & Sohan Singh Bhullar, holding her sister Helen in 1928. Judi was one of seven children born to Sohan Singh Bhullar and Effie Jones. [1] Her father was a Punjabi Sikh who moved to Canada from India in 1907, becoming one of the first Indo-Canadians in Alberta; a park in Edmonton's Mill Woods neighbourhood is named in his honour. [2]
Pages in category "Women in Edmonton" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. T. Death of Amber Tuccaro
Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.