The Porter sisters: Isobel, Dorothy, Winnifred and Hazel
Isobel contracted polio and wore a leg brace and special shoes all her life. She married Evan Robertson and had one daughter Betty Anne. Dorothy married ....Shaver and had two daughteers Dorothy and Pamela. Dorothy drowned in Lake Deschenes just outside Ottawa knocked off a sail boat by a swinging boom. She was pregnant. Winnie scandalized the community by divorcing her first husband and subsequently married an army man, dear sweet Uncle Buzz. They had one son Jimmie who was noit a favourite amond many in the family and is said to have taken Grandad's signet ring with the family crest. Hazel was wilful and a dare devil. which probably endeared her to her father. Stories include her refusing to leave the library where she was reading when the footman asked her to because there was a fire in the kitchen. She is reported to have said,"Well then, put it out." And the time she and her friends (including Eddie Echlin whom she married after a long and happy marriage to my father Joe Clark) went paddling in all their finery in the Rideau Canal after a party at Rideau Hall and all dumped and finally she did scandalize her family when she became the first woman in Ottawa to fly (with a beau Brian Devlin). It was reported in the local paper, the Ottawa Journal, so of course the family found out. The bad thing about it was that her family was in deep mourning after Dorothy's death. Perhaps that was how she mourned - to challenge life. She married Joseph William Greig Clark whom she met at a resort in Muskoka. He was a glamorour returned war her and cut a dashing figure. They had four children, Joe, Pat(Fryer), Cynthia(Steers) and Susan (Gordon). (Cynthia Steers)
The Porter sisters: Isobel, Dorothy, Winnifred and Hazel
Isobel contracted polio and wore a leg brace and special shoes all her life. She married Evan Robertson and had one daughter Betty Anne. Dorothy married ....Shaver and had two daughteers Dorothy and Pamela. Dorothy drowned in Lake Deschenes just outside Ottawa knocked off a sail boat by a swinging boom. She was pregnant. Winnie scandalized the community by divorcing her first husband and subsequently married an army man, dear sweet Uncle Buzz. They had one son Jimmie who was noit a favourite amond many in the family and is said to have taken Grandad's signet ring with the family crest. Hazel was wilful and a dare devil. which probably endeared her to her father. Stories include her refusing to leave the library where she was reading when the footman asked her to because there was a fire in the kitchen. She is reported to have said,"Well then, put it out." And the time she and her friends (including Eddie Echlin whom she married after a long and happy marriage to my father Joe Clark) went paddling in all their finery in the Rideau Canal after a party at Rideau Hall and all dumped and finally she did scandalize her family when she became the first woman in Ottawa to fly (with a beau Brian Devlin). It was reported in the local paper, the Ottawa Journal, so of course the family found out. The bad thing about it was that her family was in deep mourning after Dorothy's death. Perhaps that was how she mourned - to challenge life. She married Joseph William Greig Clark whom she met at a resort in Muskoka. He was a glamorour returned war her and cut a dashing figure. They had four children, Joe, Pat(Fryer), Cynthia(Steers) and Susan (Gordon). (Cynthia Steers)