Ann Haxton Grant

Douglas Grant Pearce wrote (by email, 17 March 2011):
"Ann, or Annie, was the daughter of Ann Downie (1859) and Kenneth Grant (1859), mason and stonecutter. She was a gentle, long-suffering woman who never lost the sound of Edinburgh. I called her Nana.
To my knowledge, Nana might have lost her temper once. When I was visiting them in one of the many two-roomers they lived in, mainly in the east end of Toronto, Pop, from his comfortable chair by the radio, cast a caustic personal remark into our conversation. Nana, from her station in front of the pot roast on the stove, reached over and grabbed a chair cushion and threw it at him backhand. He didn’t see it coming, of course. Nailed him right on the head and sent his pipe and its smouldering contents to the floor. She seemed neither angry nor contrite. Pot roasts like that one might well have contributed to her early senility.

***Uxbridge***St. John’s Ambulance***1911 arrival?***aye working***

The death of her daughter, Madeline, and the moving away of Madeline’s daughter, Ann, were often on Nana’s mind. She often called her son ‘Brother’