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- . 1931 Jul 23. Miss Marie Felker, of Toronto, is holidaying with her grand-mother, Mrs Ella Walker.
. 1935 Aug 29, Thurs. Erin. Miss Irene Walker, Miss Marie Felker of Toronto & Mr E Brock of Erin, have returned home after spending a week at a summer resort near Bracebridge. While there they met Leslie Thomas, who wished to be remember to all this friends here.
Mr Mrs F Topping & 2 sons, of St. Joseph Mo., Mr Mrs J W Walker, Mr John Walker of Toronto, Mrs James Hamilton & Miss Bertha Hamilton of Toronto, spend the weekend with relatives here.
. 1936 Sep 10, Erin, Marie Felker of Toronto, spent her vacation with her grandmother, Mrs Ella Walker.
Ref: Erin Advocate newspaper.
Times & Guide newspaper, Weston, Ontario.
, 1925 May 6 Monday. Piano solos: Marie Felker.
. 1925 Feb 25 - Weston branch of the Toronto Conservatory of Music gave a racial in the Weston town hall. The youthful performers followed one another, without hesitancy, showing a careful training on platform etiquette. Piano solos, Marie Felker.
. 1942 Dec 23 - $147.80 Raise in Choir Quilt Draw. The draw for the quilt, on which the members of Central United Church Choir have recently been selling tickets, was held on Friday night, Dec. 11th, & Miss Marie Felker of Toronto, was the lucky winner. Edith Sainsbury, a member of the choir, made & donated the quilt to raise money for War charities: Ladies War Unit of Central United church, Cdn. Air to Russia Fund, & British War Victims Fund.
. 1960 Nov 11, Advertisement: Pay Roll Accounting Service. General bookkeeping including trail balance, Payrolls prepared, Invoicing, Bill, etc. A most efficient service formal & medium sized businesses. Over 25 years' experience. Work picked up & delivered. E M Felker, Phone CH 4-8230.
. 1943 Might's Greater Toronto Directory
Felker, Douglas, Shipper CCM, rooms 217 Chatham Ave. Tel 3943,
Felker, E Marie, Stenographer, CCM, r 324 West Rd S
Felker, Marie, principle secretary CCM, r 324 West Rd S.
Felker, Neil C, Felker Bros., h. 221 Every Av,Tel LY 3604
Felker, Fred, presser Felker Bros, h 117 Muock Ave. Tel JU 6739
Felker, Herbert, Felker Bros., house 7 Kingsmill Rd., Kingsway Park, Tel JU 8915
Felker, Jennie W, Widow John, house 324 Weston Rd S.
Felker, Violet E, hand folder, Eaton Crane & Pike, res. 117 Mulock Qve. Tel JU6739
Felker, Wm J, employs TTC, house 134 Soudan Ave., Tel: HU 7073.
Remberances of My Aunt Marie, by Pat Felker, 2013.
Marie was one of the founding members of Golf & Country Club/Gulf, Curling were she could always be found on Saturdays. For 25 years she had a pair of red front row seats, in the first row of the Maple Leaf Gardens. That was back when you could reach out a touch the hockey players. Later they put in glass walls near the goalie poles.
Marie owned a riding horse which was stabled on the Richview Sideroad. After her father deceased, she had to quit school to support mother & brothers.
Marie was one of the first women to have her own car & was a world traveler. One time she took a trip to Montreal with a couple of girlfriends in the backseat. When they came to a very high metal bridge, Marie grip the steering wheel tight & press on. On the other side of the Montreal bridge she turn round to see why her friends were so quiet & she found them cowering on the floor with the hands over their hands! She also visited Europe, Hawaii & many US cities.
Marie liked to drive a good car & sip on glass of premium Canadian Club whisky.
Spinster. She owned a riding horse, boarded him on Richview Side Rd. Original founding member of Weston Gulf & Country Club. One thing I recall Aunt Marie saying was, 'It's not how much money you earn. It's how much you save." I guess her spending was similar. She would have a few good quality things like, a few good dresses, weekly hair styles, a good car, & an occasional trip to Europe. (Ireland, Turkey, Switzerland). She also loved curling & after breaking her wrist twice, she cut down on the curling! For many years she served tea every week at the CNIB. During the War II support effort she & gramma knitted woolen socks for the 'boys'.
. Marie was a tall, stately lady, brown hair, & dark brown eyes. - One Thanksgiving weekend Aunt Ruby & Marie were at the Erin Fall Fair. On Main St. & the corner of Scotch St. they notice the two story red brick house was for sell. Marie knocked on the door & said her Aunt Ruby had been born in the house. Could they have a little look look inside? The lady with white hair asked Marie to remove her sunglasses. Yes you have the Walker's dark brown eyes, come in. Ruby said the sparse front parlor on the right looked just the same. Over there by the wood stove was were they put the chamber pot, which always froze overnight in the winter. There was kitchen plumbing in the back. - PJ Ahlberg 2010.
. 1947 Apr 30, Wed. Business Girls Plan May 11 Golf Opening. Marie Felker was elected captain of the business girls section of the West Golf club, with Mrs C Fun, Vice-captain & Gertrude Scott, secretary treasurer chat Bowen & Jeannette Reddick are chairman & vice chairman respectively. The girls open the season May 31 with a two ball foursome & a dinner.
. 1962 May 4, Fri. Soroptimist Convention elects Officers. May C Babcock, Toronto, was elected governor of Soroptimist EasternCdn. regional the Toronto convention recently, Marie Felker Secretary, Toronto.
Ref: Toronto Star newspaper.
Residences, Electors Polls:
. 419 Durie St., Felker Mrs Jennie John W, government, Chas H Felker, government, Ella M Felker, secretary.
. 1953 - 415 Durie St., Toronto, Felker Ella Marie, secretary, Felker Mrs Dennie W, housewife. [i.e. Jenne Walker]. John Felker, postal worker.
. 1963 - 6 Saskatoon, Felker John postman, Mrs. Carolien, Miss Marie Felker, accountant.
. 1965 - 6 Saskatoon Electors: E Marie Felker, secretary.
. 1974 - 6 Saskatoon, Etobicoke: JW Felker, Postman, Mrs. Caroline, clerk, Miss Marie Felker, Office manager.
. 1961 Sept 18. & the same on 1966 May 16: Soroptimist Club North Toronto & North York. At the home of E Marie Felker, 6 Saskatoon, Weston, 8:00 PM.
T oronto City Directory
. 1961 & 66, Marie Felker, Office manager, Harper Everlasting Fastenings Ltd, h. 6 Saskatoon Dr., Etobicoke.
. 1967 & 1969 Felker, E Marie, Office manger Gordon Bannerman Ltd, Res. 6 Saskatoon Dr., Weston
Felker, Chas H, auditor UIC,REs. 7 Saskatoon Dr.
Felker, John W, Postman, 1C Post Office, house 6 Saskatoon Dr.
Marie Felker was a long time volunteer at the CNIB. She would serve tea & cookies to the blind at their Institute on Bayview Avenue.
. 1962 July 9, Toronto Soroptimist Club, 17th Annual convention. Several flying to the meeting in Hawaii: Miss Marie Felker, Miss Grace Hutchings.
Ref: Globe & Mail Newspaper, Toronto.
Note: Both ladies were head secretaries to the president of the famous Canadian companies, CCM, Marie Felker & Grace Hutchings, at the Cdn. cookie & candy empire, McCormicks, London, Ontario. - PJA
. George S Veraden, CCM president from 1941 until 1962. Braden was said to be a "Strict, upright man" who ruled with an iron hand. Having been sales representative for the Maritime Provinces & Eastern Ontario, Braden had been named export manger in 1922 & general manger in 1933. Despite his extensive experience with the company, Braden failed to connect with the workers the way CCM founder, Tommy Russell had. Aristocratic & aloof, Braden was seldom seen on the factory floor. With Canada's wartime economy in full stride at the time of Braden's takeover at CCM, goods were once again pour from Canada's factories. CCM's production of bicycles for 1940 was as high as it had ever been & could have been higher. Braden cautioned Canadians waiting for bicycles not to get overly excited. With the shortage in steel, Braden warned, "Many of our bicycle employees have been transferred to munitions work." ... Geo. Braden retired on May 9, 1958. The new President , M P Jolly was named the new president of CCM & Tom Nase became, the VP.
Ref: Canada Cycle & Motor, The CCM Story, John A McKenty, 2011.
Notes: Geo. S. Braden has started as a stenography with CCM, so perhaps he was sympathetic to the efficient & hardworking Marie Felker, becoming his secretary. Marie had to forgo her yearning for university education, in order to provide for her widowed mother & younger brothers. Marie accompanied Braden to Montreal during the meetings with C. D. Howe concerning the CCM converting their bicycle mfg. into army boot making, machine guns & Lee Enfield refiles for the World War II effort.
Famous Cdn. photographer, Yousuf Karsh took portrait photos of Braden & his wife with their horses. (Richview Sideroad Riding Stables, Etobicoke?) After his death (c. 1958), his secretary Marie Felker was given the charge of looking after Mr s. Geo. Braden who was in a nursing home.
Employed before Marie employed at CCM was Marie's father, John Felker, painter; & also Aunt Irene Walker, bookkeeper & her sister-in-law, Caroline Felker, assembly line
In 1957 Aunt Marie bought her niece, Patsy the best & most beautiful CCM blue metallic three speed bicycle that a child could ever want.
Marie Felker retired from the CCM after the new president wanted his own person to be secretary. - P J Felker - Ahlberg.
. 2007 May, 23 "FELKER, Ella Marie - Peacefully at Central Park Log, Albion Road, on Tuesday, May 22, 2007. Marie Felker in her 92nd year, daughter of the late John Wesley Felker & Jennie (Walker) Felker. Beloved sister of Charlie Felker & the late John Felker (1203). Marie was a long time employee of Canada Cycle & Motor Limited, a member of Weston Golf Club & in 1986 she was presented with a life membership of the Soroptimist International Club of North Toronto & North York. Funeral service will be held at the Turner & Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. W., at Windermere, east of the Jane subway, on Friday, May 25, 2007 at 1 p.m. with visitation beginning at 12 noon. Interment to follow at Erin Union Cemetery." United Church Minister officiated. Cousin Bill Finn gave a touching remembrance of Marie's Life. Buried in a cement liner, as was her mother, beside her parents, Jennie & John Felker. [Descendant of Rebecca Lawrence].
Ref: Toronto Star.
. Soroptimist Foundation of Canada, Marie Felker Secretary-Treasurer 1965 - 1975
Ella Marie Felker left a legacy to the club. We have applied the money to various projects & we are having the city plant a tree in her memory. There will be plaque with her name & that she was a member of our club.
S.I. XX contacted the President last fall about the possibility of us assisting girls in Kisumu Kenya to go to school. XX is a development worker who travels widely & has made friends with some Soroptimist' s in Kisumu, Kenya. While visiting the re, she heard that a local family had had to sell their cow in order to pay school fees for their daughter. Toronto has donated $750 from the Felker legacy to keep this girl in school & to help a third girl with fees.
Ref: Soroptimist Int. Eastern Canada Region, May 2009.
In Memory of Ella Marie Felker who bequeath $10,000 to the Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto April 2008 to Mar 31, 2009 . - - - [1]
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