Edwin Bruce MANSON

1911 - 1960  (49 years)

• Name	Edwin Bruce MANSON  [1]
  Birth	1911	Montreal. Mount Royal   [2]
  Gender	Male
  _AMTID	212743888908:1030:209309145
  _UID	A902A27C72B64995929A17206C81F5FA0E1E
  Death	1960	Ottawa
  Person ID	I271	Manson-Malli
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2026

  
  

  Father	Norman St. Clair MANSON,   b. 19 Jan 1880, Montreal. Mount Royal d. 28 Aug 1946, Montreal. Mount Royal (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Marie Antoinette SENEZ,   b. 10 Jun 1880, Montreal. Mount Royal d. 1954, Ottawa (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	5 Sep 1905	Montreal. Mount Royal   [3]
  Family ID	F161	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary BRERETON,   b. Ottawa d. 1960, Ottawa
  Marriage	1932	Ottawa
  Family ID	F97	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2026

  
  

• Documents

  1921_124-E003082604

  
  

• Notes

  Third of the sons in line, he was born in 1911, and, likehis paternal grandmother, had reddish hair, freckles, and thetemper that is often associated with red-heads. In his turn, ed up in McGill,where he had enrolled into the Commerce prog that time, hisparents were living in Ottawa, the Depression had hit, and he wasbrought back to Ottawa without having completed his degree requirements.Rather than sit idle, he attended a local business school in order to hone theskills he already had. He ended up working for Canada Packers as an accountant,and, while there, met the woman he was later to marry, Mary Brereton, anIrish-Catholic. They had no children, since it was clear that she was sterile.They consequently adopted a young boy, named Brucie. Bruce eventually went towork for the R.A. Beamish Co. Ltd., a firm of small-town general small waresmerchants, very similar to the Woolworth and Kresge chains. There, he roseto the post of Secretary-Treasurer. In 1960, while mowing the lawn, he wassuddenly taken ill, was rushed to the hospital with a heart attack, where hedied in hours. His body was then transferred to a funeral home, and, while his widowwas receiving friends and relatives, she died of a sudden heart-failure.They were buried in the same grave, and the child, now an orphan, was sent to one ofhis mother's relatives, a farming family somewhere in the midwestern partof the U.S. I have no knowledge of his subsequent whereabouts.

  
  

• Sources

  [S37] 1921 Census of Canada, Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 124; Census Place: Ville Outremont, Montreal (Laurier-Outremont), Quebec; Page Number: 14. 1921_124-E003082604 [S37] 1921 Census of Canada, Reference Number: RG 31; Folder Number: 124; Census Place: Ville Outremont, Montreal (Laurier-Outremont), Quebec; Page Number: 14. [S35] Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968, Institut Généalogique Drouin; Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Drouin Collection; Author: Gabriel Drouin, Comp. d13p_1189b0842