MacKay Champion Genealogy - Person Sheet
MacKay Champion Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameWalter Howard Blades 
Birth Date7 Dec 1920
Birth PlaceBarrington, NS
Death Date26 Mar 1958
Death PlaceCamp Hill Hospital, Halifax, NS
MemoRheumatic Fever - of the heart valves
Burial Date1958
Burial PlaceForest Hill Cemetery, Barrington, NS
FatherJohn “Lester” Blades (1888-1973)
MotherOlive “Ollie” Genevieve Hitchens (1894-1973)
Spouses
Birth Date17 Jan 1923
Birth PlaceAntwerp, Belgium
Death Date23 Nov 1997
Death PlaceBridgewater, NS
MemoObituary written by Joanne Cook
Burial PlaceKejimkujik Park, NS
MemoCremated
OccupationWorked at “Jack Stern’s” near the Cape Island Causeway in Barrington Passage - Jack and Goldie Stern
FatherAugustus Carolus “Guust” August Karel de Pauw (1895-?)
MotherHedwig Augusta “Greta” Hartog (1899-1960)
Marr Date18 Dec 1945
Marr PlaceAntwerp, Belgium
Marr MemoGot date from inside Heddy's ring
ChildrenGary Howard (1949-)
Michael (1951-)
Notes for Walter Howard Blades
Gary writes, 2020-12-30: Walter was an outdoors man.
He was interested in hunting and trapping.
He had eel traps and set them at the mouth of Downeys Brook.
I'm not sure but I think we had eel for dinner from time to time.
He trapped animals for their fur.
What kind of animals I don't recall.
I will guess muskrat, beaver, mink and such.
He skinned the animals and stretched and dried the pelts on thin wooden boards shaped for that purpose.
A fur buyer came to the Victoria Hotel periodically and Walter would take his pelts there to sell.
He was interested in hunting and trapping.
He had eel traps and set them at the mouth of Downeys Brook.
I'm not sure but I think we had eel for dinner from time to time.
He trapped animals for their fur.
What kind of animals I don't recall.
I will guess muskrat, beaver, mink and such.
He skinned the animals and stretched and dried the pelts on thin wooden boards shaped for that purpose.
A fur buyer came to the Victoria Hotel periodically and Walter would take his pelts there to sell.