Local celebrates 102 birthday
It was 1915. The First World War had entered its second year, the United States House of Representatives had rejected a proposal to grant women the right to vote and “In Flanders Field” was penned by John McCrae.
And in Derbyshire, England, Anne Case was born. But for the Prince Albert resident who turned 102 last week, the day was just another chapter in her life.
“Same thing as before, no different,” she said when asked about the milestone.
Anne and her family departed England for Canada in the mid-1920s aboard the SS Canopic. They landed in Halifax and ventured across the country to Fabian, Alta. where her family set up a homestead for a number of years.