Evelyn Charlotte MANSON

1873 - 1955  (82 years)

• Name	Evelyn Charlotte MANSON  [1, 2]
  Birth	1873	Montreal. Mount Royal
  Gender	Female
  _AMTID	212743888912:1030:209309145
  _UID	4F01640B228B4FCCA46BC171B71C5608F985
  Death	1955	Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I275	Manson-Malli
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2026

  
  

  Father	Alexander MANSON,   b. 8 Jan 1832, Thurso, Scotland d. 21 Dec 1905, Montreal. Mount Royal (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Annie Isabella BOUCHER,   b. 2 Feb 1847, Portsmith, Southampton, UK d. 3 Jan 1899, Montreal. Mount Royal (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	1867	Halifax, NS, Canada
  Family ID	F157	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles TRUSCOTT,   b. Hamilton d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1904	Montreal. Mount Royal
  Family ID	F98	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2026

  
  

• Documents		30953_148197-00638
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• Notes

  The Manson Family Tree 1992 Winnifred: she was the first to leave home after the deathof her mother in 1859. She went with a man named McHale, as it turned out, ane'er-do-well, who left her after she had borne him three children -a girl, aboy(Douglas), and another girl, Lesley. Girl #I: The eldest (I've forgotten her name), married afarmer by the name outside of Melfo children but I don't know how many. Child #I?? Child #2?? Douglas: The only son, eventually went into the army wherehe served many years, rising to the rank of Captain. He married, andhad children, but how many is unknown to me. Child #I?? Child #2?? Lesley (Girl): Lesley: the youngest, unwanted by her motherwho was now left stranded with three children to bring up by thedeparture of her husband, she 'farmed out' this child to her younger sister, Carolyn,then living in Regina, and married a successful insurance company manager,named Mc Bride. More about this arrangement later. Lesley despisedher adoptive 'mother', her aunt, and couldn't stand her adoptive father.After having received training as a secretary in Regina, she volunteeredfor active service in the R.A.F. in the last war. She was eventually sent outto the far East to serve in a unit there, contracted one of thoselong-lingering tropical diseases, for which she was invalided back to Canada. Her AuntCarolyn, then living in Montreal welcomed her back to keep her. However, Lesley didnot last much longer, and was buried in the military section of Mt-RoyalCemetery. She had never married. Evelyn Charlotte: Second of the Manson daughters ofAlexander, when her mother died in 1899, she stayed at home to serve ashousekeeper to her brothers, and her father. However, when her father died in1905, she quickly married Charles Truscott, of Hamilton, an office employeefor the Grand Trunk Railway. Shortly after their marriage, they were moved outto the Divisional office in Winnipeg. There, they lived out his working years,moving to Ottawa when he reached retirement age. This they did in order to benear my parents, and especially to be with my mother, with whom she had beenvery close since her high school days in Westmount, an inner suburb ofMontreal. They never The Manson Family Tree 1992 had any children, and, on their deaths, the were interred inhis family plot in Hamilton. When we were children, she and her husband often used to gowith us down to the village of Kamouraska, in the lower reaches of the St.Lawrence River, below Quebec City. To do this, they had travel all the way fromWinnipeg, no real hardship, since he always had a pass on any Canadian railwayfor anywhere wanted to go. One more point. When Charles Truscott died, ingreat pain from cancer of the colon, Evelyn (she was always called 'Dot' toall who knew her), moved down to Montreal in order to be with her youngersister, Carolyn, adoptive mother of Lesley of whom I have already told you. \ par

  
  

• Sources

  [S33] 1901 Census of Canada, Year: 1901; Census Place: Quebec; Page: 6; Family No: 53. z000141417 [S34] 1891 Census of Canada, Year: 1891; Census Place: Côte St Antoine Village, Hochelaga, Quebec, Canada; Roll: T-6395; Family No: 205. 30953_148197-00638