In Friday’s Chronicle Herald, columnist Gail Lethbridge pays tribute to her 105 year old grandmother – and points out that Nova Scotia has some fairly impressive numbers when it comes to centenarians. 

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Gladys Lethbridge, 105. [picture - Gail Lethbridge/Chronicle Herald

In considering her grandmother’s life experiences thus far, Lethbridge uses the lens of histroy to give us some perspective:

” When she was 13, women got the right to vote in Nova Scotia. My grandmother was 24 when women were recognized as “persons” in Canada. This means that in the eyes of the law, my grandmother spent almost a quarter of her life as a non-person. The right to vote and being declared legal “persons” paved the way for women to be represented in the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. After finishing school, my grandmother went to the old Provincial Normal College in Truro and then worked as a schoolteacher before marrying my grandfather, Charlie, in 1933 at age 29. During the Dirty ’30s, she was having babies. She was 34 when the Second Word War broke out and 40 when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

You can read the full article here.

From all of us at CAKEns, Happy Birthday Gladys,  and many more returns!