B6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 27, 1996

93-years-old and going strong

STILL YOUNG at heart,
Charlie Oliver just
celebrated his 93rd birthday
on March 1] this year.

Charlie was born far from
‘Terrace, on his father’s
homestead located about 30
miles west of Winnipeg,
Maniloba. His birth certifi-
cate reads: SW 1/4, Sec, 23,
23, 3 — Woodlands
municipality.

Charlie’s parents Ruth and
Wiliam Oliver had six other
children —- five boys, Ed-
win, Albert, Charlie, Wil-
liam George and Joc and
one girl, Grace Margaret.
Ail were born on the
homestead.

And now there are only
two of the children still
living — Charlie and his

brother George, a  spry
youngster of 86,
The homestead where

Charlie grew up had been
first settled by Charlie's fa-
ther, William. He moved
there from just outside of
Toronto, travelling with a
team of horses, to set up a
farm on a quarter section.

Charlie’s mother Ruth
Hainswith moved to Canada
from England when she was
nine years old. Her family
settled in Manitoba at
Meadow Lea.

Ruth’s father ran a general
store there, and another at
Marguithe. Ruth worked at
the second store.

Charlie and his siblings
grew up in Marguithe and
attended the Meadow Lea
schoo], But Charlie said that
they never received much in
the way of an education
there.

In 1913, when Charlie was
only nine, his father died of
Typhoid fever.

A short time later their
mother rented the farm oui.
Since she was left alone to
raise seven children, she de-
cided she would take the
children and move to Cali-
fornia to be near her family.

So the family arrived in
California in late November,
but schools there wouldn't
let the children start in mid-
Stream,

In 1914 the war broke out
-and in May | Charlie’s
mother decided she should
take the children back to the
homestead in Manitoba.
When they returned she

HAPPY BIRTHDAY — Charlie Oliver just celebrated his 93rd birthday, He's pic-
tured here with his wife Gladys.

HERE 'N THERE
YVONNE MOEN

bough some horses and
some cattle.

The two oldest boys and
Charlie stayed home to
work on the farm, and life
carried on,

Charlie’s uncle Earnest,
his father’s brother, lived in
the next quarter section with
his wife and five children,
so the family had some
company.

But sadly in 1916 Earnest
died from injuries sustained
when he was kicked in the
head by a horse. Then his
family was also left alone.
So his wife decided to give

up the farm.
Charlie had just been

. given a team of horses to

start out on his own, so he
and his brothers took over
that half section of land and
started farming.

Charlie and his brothers
just barely made a living on
the farm. But they bought
more land as time went on,
daing most of the work with
horses.

In 1935 the brothers had
some bad luck with a crop
failure. So they decided to
split up their partnership. A
few left the homestead to
start a new life elsewhere.
But Charlie and his brother
Albert continued farming
for another nine years until
1944.

In the meantime Charlie
met a young woman from
Winnipeg, Olive Raymond.
The couple married and

lived at Marquette.
Here they had four boys
— Willlam, J ames,

Raymond and John.

Charlie and his wife lived
there until 1958 and then
moved to Stonewall where

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Charlie got a job working at
the medical service station
in Winnipeg. He worked
there until he retired at the
age of 70 in 1973.

They couple moved into a
senior’s complex in
Stonewall soon after. How-
ever in 1976 his wife Olive
sadly passed away.

And then in 1979 Charlie
came to Terrace to live with
his son Jim,

And now of course the
rest is history.

While living in Terrace
Charlie met a beautiful lady,
Gladys Clifford. They were
married on Dec. 11, 1981 in
Terrace,

And since 1992 Charlie
and Gladys Oliver have
been living at the Willows
Apartments.

Many more years of good
health and happiness to both
Charlie and Gladys.

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