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Name | Colwell, Sadie | |
Born | 13 Feb 1901 | Kincardine, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
Gender | Female | |
Occupation | 1925 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Died | 30 Dec 1987 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Buried | Tiverton Cemetery, Tiverton, Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada | |
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Person ID | I49 | McFadyen and Parker |
Last Modified | 2 May 2010 |
Father | Colwell, Samuel George, b. 14 Jun 1864, Bervie, Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada , d. 18 Jul 1931, Tiverton, Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada (Age 67 years) | |
Mother | McArthur, Annie, b. 15 Jan 1863, (on farm Boundary of Bruce and) Kincardine Township, Ontario, Canada , d. 8 Aug 1951, Kincardine, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada (Age 88 years) | |
Married | 14 Mar 1888 | Kincardine, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada [6] |
Family ID | F46 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Photos | At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld. | |
Hazel and Sadie Colwell | ||
Molly Colwell (Sheldon) and Sadie Colwell Sister-in-laws Molley Sheldon (Neil Colwell's wife) and Sadie Colwell. | ||
Sadie Colwell - 1901 Sadie often spent Christmas Day or two with Eldon McFadyen's family. Here Sadie is openning her stocking on Christmas Day with all the rest of the family at Eldon's home in Mississauga, Ontario. | ||
John & Hazel McFadyen, Mary Bertrand, Sadie Colwell |
Documents | Canadian Census - 1901 - Colwell Family Bruce West (50) Kincardine c-2 s-1 pg-7 Samuel George & Annie with daughters: Maggie,Eliza, Sadie, sons: Thomas and Neil | |
Sadie Colwell - Obituary - Toronto Daily Star (Employee of Tridel Corporation). Peacefully at her residence on Wednesday, December 30, 1987, in her 87th year. Sadie is survived by her several nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at the Turner & Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. West at Windermere near the Jane subway from 7-9p.m. Thursday. Funeral service will be held at the Darvey-Linklater Funeral Home, Kincardine on Saturday at 2 o'clock. Internment Tiverton Cemetery, Tiverton. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of your choice. | ||
Sadie Colwell, Toronto Star Article - May 11, 1973 The Toronto Star, Friday, May 11, 1973 A Life of quiet dedication is fame enough for Sadie. SADIE COLWELL, 72, has worked for the same Toronto firm for 47 years and the last thing on her mind is retirement. She would rather work than sit at home. She dismisses women's liberation complaints about unequal work opportunities with the comment: "Some people are always complaining." There's no way Sadie Colwell would ever make the front page of The Star. She's done nothing that could be considered really spectacular at any stage in her long life; nor is she likely to before she dies. But when her small accomplishments are looked at in the light of what is considered the norm by today's society, they begin to loom larger and larger. I look at them, and all I can do is shake my head and come out with the cliche: "They surely don't make 'em like that any more. No sirree!" For starters, Sadie is 72 years old. Which means sh should be retired, right? No way. Sadie arrives at work every morning at 8:30 a.m. and is supposed to work until 4:30 p.m. Never late But her boss, Louis Bregman, president of Canadian Food Products Ltd., says she seldom leaves on time. He reports that she can be found behind her desk many an evening after the place has closed. As for arriving on time, that's a different matter. Sadie has worked for the same company for 47 years and not once has she ever arrived late. She is also able to report, in a shy and winsome way, that in all those years she has been away only nine days because of illness. "But don't write that, please" she begs me. Sadie is the kind of person who considers bragging unnvecessary and unladylike and is not about to indulge in it, even in answer to a direct question. In all, starting off as a young farm girl at the age of 16, Sadie has been working steadily for 56 years and has no intention of giving up now. She' been through about eight different changes in ownership of the huge food products company where she works and is so much a part of the office that the place might just fall apart is she ever does leave. Her new boss, Bregman, who took over the company 18 months ago - thus inheriting Sadie - speaks of her with awe. The sum of his comments in praise of her goes something like this: "Every company should be so lucky to have an employee like Sadie!" Bregman says it's up to her when she retires and indicates that he's perfectly willing to have her roll in in a wheelchair at 90 if she wishes to. "She's married to this place," he says. "It's her whole life. She still does a good job and it would kill her to leave." That good job Sadie still does isn't just any old job. She's involved in responsibilities of a very sensitive nature, handling much of the confidential financial work of her company, including the executive apyroll. Considering her impeccable work record and her lengevity at one job, you might feel that Sadie would have the right to criticize the attitude some young people have towards their jobs today. Not Sadie. No libber "You have to go along with the times," she chirps. "The girls in the office today are very nice. They just move around alot more, that's all." As for current women's lib feelings that women aren't given equal opportunities for advancement in offices, she dismisses the idea with a curt- "Some people are always complaining, I've always felt that the men in the office treated me with respect. I always liked the people I worked for." She also managed to liberate herself enough by hard work and loyalty from the position of book-keeper to assistant to the treasurer, and never felt she was held back because she was a woman. If there's any change in office attitudes over thte years, it's that "when I first started to work, people really enjoyed what they were doing and tried hard for the company. No one left unless they got married or died. Today, perhaps many young people don't realize how stimulating a job can be and how it can help improve you." She eats most of her meals out and enjoys going to the movies. And she is not intimidated by the heightened pace of the city or the glare of neon on the Strip. Nor is she intimidated by the increasing use of computers in the office, which, so far, haven't managed to make valuable employees like Sadie Colwell obsolete. "I haven't ever considered retirement," she says matter-of-factly. "Not yet, anyway, I can still do my job. "And I'd much rather be out enjoying everything that sitting at home doing nothing." | ||
Canadian Census - 1911 - Colwell Family Bruce North (50) Kincardine c-50 s-1 pg-5 Samuel George & Annie with daughters: Maggie,Eliza,Sadie,Irene, sons: Thomas and Neil, Hazel is on pg-6 of the census | ||
1915 Grade 5 Attendance - Sadie Colwell 1915-1916 Grade 5 S.S. No 12 Kincardine Attendance Merit Card for Sadie Colwell. | ||
Sadie Colwell - Tridel People This article appeared on the back of the Tridel People Brochure in December 1987. |
Headstones | Colwells Samuel Colwell (Jr), Samuel George Colwell (Sr) + Annie McArthur, Sadie Colwell (Note: the engraved birth year for Sadie is incorrect. Verified via John Eldon McFadyen - executor) |
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