105 - Mary Green - Crossfield, Alberta
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N 51° 25.820 W 114° 00.180
11U E 708325 N 5701942
Mary Green gravesite is within the Crossfield Cemetery and is located approximately 1.3 km east of Crossfield on Township Road 285.
Waymark Code: WMPGMW
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 08/29/2015
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Mary Green was born in 1882 and passed away in 1987 at the age of 105. She married Roland Green, it is unknown how many children they had. Roland and two children, Event and Virgil, are also interred with Mary Green.
Some of the events that took place during Mary Green lifetime were World Wars I and II and the Boer and Korean Wars. Also events that took place, locally, were the Frank Slide and the Hillcrest Explosion.
Also occurred were in 1981 the West Edmonton Mall opened, becoming the world's largest shopping center at that time and in 1988 Winter Olympics were held in Calgary, Alberta.
A timeline of some of the events that took place in Canada is provided as follows:
1882 - Mary Green was born
1883 - Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada
1885 - Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
1885 - The last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway is driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia
1889 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast
1890 - Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable
1896 - Gold is discovered in the Klondike
1899 - First Canadian troops sent to participate in the Boer War in South Africa
1900 - Reginald Fessenden transmits the world's first wireless spoken message via radio
1902 - The first symphony orchestra in Canada
1903 - Evert Green, son of Mary and Roland, was born
1906 - Virgil Green, son of Mary and Roland, was born
1907 - Canada Dry Ginger Ale is first bottled
1907 - Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
1908 - Anne of Green Gables is published by author Lucy Maud Montgomery
1908 - Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa
1910 - Royal Canadian Navy formed
1914 - Hillcrest Explosion
1914 - The First World War begins Britain declares war on Germany on behalf of the British Empire, including Canada
1917 - Women won right to vote
1917 - 1921 Alcohol prohibition
1919 - Canadian National Railways established
1920 - New Canadian small cent coin is released
1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed
1927 - To celebrate Canada's Diamond jubilee the first coast-to-coast radio broadcast is made
1929 - Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
1934 - The birth of the Dionne quintuplets attracts international media attention
1938 - FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
1939 - Virgil Green, son of Mary and Roland, passed away at the age of 33
1939 - In WW II Canada declared war on Germany
1941 - Japanese interred in B C interior after bombing of Pearl Harbor
1942 - Over 22,000 Canadians of Japanese descent are stripped of non- portable possessions
1950 - Roland Green, son of Mary and Roland Green passed away at the age of 47
1958 - Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland - Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver - opened
1964 - Oil Sands development at Fort McMurray began
1965 - Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada
1967 - Roland Green, husband of Mary Green, passed away at the age of 87
1969 - Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada
1969 - Canada approves equality of French-English language
1979 - Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
1980 - O' Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada
1980 - Terry Fox began cross-country Marathon of Hope
1987 - Mary Green passed away at the age of 105
The Crossfield Cemetery is one of the larger cemeteries in the area with the exception of Calgary. There are approximately 1,325 interments and is still active with the most recent known burial in 2014. The cemetery is approximately 10 acres in size and was established in the early 1900s.
Crossfield is within Rocky View County. As a rail station on the Calgary to Edmonton (C&E) line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Crossfield was founded in 1892. Crossfield was named after an engineer with the Canadian Pacific Railway survey crew.
By 1904, the community had a post office, a general store, a hotel and a school. In 1906, the first grain elevator opened and Crossfield was incorporated as a village in 1907. In 1980, Crossfield incorporated as a town.
Location of Headstone: Crossfield Cemetery
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