1921 Census of Canada

The 1921 census of Canada has recently been released.  Here's what it has to say about our family:

In 1921, Arthur and Minnie Scott, St. Andrew's Ward, Montreal, were living with their very recently widowed 26-year-old daughter, Norton Fry, and her daughter (their granddaughter), the 2-year-old Mary Fry.  Arthur is listed as an import broker making $2,000 (I assume annually).  They are renting a brick home for $150.00/month, and they have two female live-in servants.  I am sooo jealous. 

William Rutherford, Jr (age 56) and his wife Ida (Bulmer) Rutherford (age 54) were living in Westmount, sub-district 62, with several adult children:  John Bulmer Rutherford, age 24, Ida Jean Rutherford, age 22,  Andrew Scott Rutherford, age 20, and E. Marjorie Rutherford, age 19.  Also part of the household is Jane Bulmer, age 50, Ida's younger sister.  They have one live-in servant.  William and his son William Jackson are listed as merchants, while John Bulmer is an accountant (probably of his father's lumber company) who makes $720 annually.  Andrew and Marjorie are students.  They own a brick home with ten rooms (I'm not sure which rooms are included in the count).   It's interesting how many adult children are still living at home, even the men.

John Galloway Scott (age 84) and his wife Mary (Elliot) Scott (age78)  are living in Toronto North, Ward 4, 29 Dunvegan Road.  For those of us in Toronto, 29 Dunvegan is in the St. Clair/Avenue Road region.  Very posh.  With them is their daughter Helen Scott, age 37, "Janey" C. Elliot, Mary's younger sister, age 67, and two female servants, one cook and one maid.  John is retired and none of the three ladies of the household have an occupation.  They own the home.  

Family Pictures

My mother-in-law very kindly let us borrow some family photos to copy.  Two of these women she could identify;  the third is a mystery.  The elegant woman in lace directly to the left is Mary (Minnie) Scott.  She is the daughter of William Elliot and Mary Oliphant, the wife of John Galloway Scott, and the mother of Arthur Scott.  She is one of my husband's great-great grandmothers.  I believe the lace cap indicates that she is a widow at the time this picture was taken, so that would date it to between 1928, when John Galloway Scott died, and 1937, when she died herself.  If this is correct she would have been in her 80s when this photograph was taken.  She was born in 1846. 

The picture below this is unidentified, although my mother-in-law thinks it is a woman in the Rutherford family (apparently she has the "Rutherford nose").  If anyone can identify her, please let me know.

       The third picture, very faded, is of Minnie Scott.  Born Minnie Davis, she is the daughter of          Adoniram and Louisa (Norton) Davis, the wife of Arthur Scott, and the mother of Edythe Rutherford, (nicknamed "Nort").  She is my mother-in-law's grandmother.  I think she looks very sweet and kind.   She was born in 1871 and I am currently unaware of her death date.  This photo looks like it might have been taken in middle age.  I'm going to see if I can get it restored--I'll repost it when I do.