Descendants of Thomas & Susan GILMORE
 Fourth Generation 
41. Gladys May BLUE (Hattie SKINNER3, Harriet "Hattie" GILMORE2, Thomas1) was born on December 1, 1899 in Elderslie Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada11,15 and died on November 14, 1976 in Goderich, Huron Co, Ontario, Canada11,16 aged 76.
Gladys married Elmer Anson GARLAND, son of James Anson GARLAND and Elizabeth Ann BODDY, on April 12, 1922 in , Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada. Elmer was born on March 11, 1896 in Brant Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada8,11 and died in 196711 aged 71.
Children from this marriage were:
46 M i. James GARLAND
James married Lorraine DOWNS ____________.11
47 M ii. Lloyd GARLAND was born on November 10, 1929 in St. Mary's, Perth Co, Ontario, Canada11 and died on December 26, 1999 in Listowel, Perth County, Ontario, Canada aged 70.
Lloyd married Evelyn May REDDAWAY in 1954.11 Evelyn was born on August 17, 1931 in Galt, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada and died on September 28, 1995 in Clinton, Huron Co, Ontario, Canada aged 64.
42. Anna Belle BLUE (Hattie SKINNER3, Harriet "Hattie" GILMORE2, Thomas1) was born on January 20, 1902 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada12,17 and died in 1982 in Timmins, Cochrane Dist, Ontario, Canada11 aged 80.
Anna married William STANLEY, son of Isaac STANLEY and Margaret McLEAN, on December 19, 1923 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.19 William was born on November 26, 1899 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.8,14
• Marriage witnessed by Elmer A. GARLAND of Paisley Ontario & Mabel McLEOD of Southampton Ontario.
Children from this marriage were:
48 M i. Murray STANLEY
49 M ii. Alan Herbert STANLEY was born on March 1, 1926 in Timmins, Cochrane Dist, Ontario, Canada and died on October 18, 2013 in Bobcaygeon, , Ontario, Canada aged 87.
Allan "Snowshoes" Stanley was born in Timmins, Ontario, in 1926. He wasn't convinced he wanted to pursue hockey as a career while showing a strong presence with minor teams in Timmins. In 1943 the Timmins juvenile club won the All-Ontario finals, a showcase for professional teams looking for young talent. Sixteen-year-old Stanley was one of several members of the team invited to NHL training camps and made a trip to Boston, though he had no strong interest in leaving home and school to devote himself to hockey as far away as Beantown. During the camp he received an invitation to play for the Oshawa Generals, but when he told Boston's general manager Art Ross and coach Dit Clapper of the plan, they strenuously objected to his playing in the back yard of the rival Toronto Maple Leafs. The Canadian Hockey Association became involved and young Stanley was convinced to stay with the Bruins for an extended training camp. He was assigned to the Boston Olympics, a senior team in the Quebec Senior Hockey League.
He spent the better part of three years in Boston and was slowly rounding into a solid defensive presence. In 1946, after an earlier trade, Ross owed the Providence Reds a player and the decision came down to Bill Shill or Stanley. Shill's career would turn out to be a short one, and Stanley's was just beginning.
He played two seasons in Providence and his steady play came to the attention of Frank Boucher, general manager of the New York Rangers. Boucher gave the Reds $70,000 for the rights to Stanley, a large amount for an untried player, and there was a great deal of hype surrounding the young defenseman when he arrived in New York.
In 1953-54, after five full seasons with the Rangers, he was sent to the minors. Boucher, who acknowledged it was the fans' ire that led to the demotion and not his play, paid Stanley a full NHL salary while he was with the Vancouver Canucks of the Western League. Stanley returned to the Rangers the next season and played 12 games before being traded to the Chicago Black Hawks with Nick Mickoski and Richard Lamoureaux for Pete Conacher and Bill Gadsby, who would later please the Ranger faithful when he developed into one of the game's tougher stars.
Stanley played one full season with Chicago before he was sold to a familiar organization, the Boston Bruins. Lynn Patrick, Boston's manager, had coached the Rangers in 1950 to a Stanley Cup final and knew Stanley's value to a team. Stanley was one of the best defensemen on the team in his first year, 1956-57. With six games left in the season, however, he landed awkwardly after a check from the Toronto Maple Leafs' Gerry James and damaged his knee, ending his season and forcing him to miss Boston's run to the finals. Bruins coach Milt Schmidt said losing Stanley was the main reason his team fell to the Montreal Canadiens in the finals. The next season Stanley was voted the team's most valuable player when Boston returned to the championship series against the Canadiens, though once again the Montreal squad took the Stanley Cup. Before the 1958-59 season began, Stanley was once again on the move, this time to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Jim Morrison. The Bruins felt Stanley's legs were gone and his time in the league was limited.
Stanley would prove yet another franchise wrong when he became a fixture on the Leafs' championship teams in the 1960s. He was often teamed with Tim Horton, another big veteran who knew a lot about positional play, and was a large part of the league's, and perhaps history's, best defensive unit with Carl Brewer, Bobby Baun and Marcel Provonost. Stanley also used his veteran savvy in the offensive zone and was placed on the Leafs' powerplay because of his accurate passes. Beginning in 1960, rumours began to circulate about his retirement. That season Stanley was voted to the league's Second All-Star Team. The next season there were more rumours and once again Stanley was an alternate All-Star. He ended up playing 10 seasons in Toronto, finally living up to his last name when the Maple Leafs won the Cup in 1962, the first of his four Cup wins with the team. His final title came in 1967, and after one more season with Toronto, he moved to the Philadelphia Flyers in 1968. He finally retired in 1969 at the age of 43.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981 along with John Bucyk, another survivor of many NHL campaigns, and Stanley's former teammate in Toronto, Frank Mahovlich.
Alan married Barbara (__?__).
43. Howard Livingston BLUE (Hattie SKINNER3, Harriet "Hattie" GILMORE2, Thomas1) was born on February 18, 1905 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada11,12 and died in 1964 in London, Middlesex Co, Ontario, Canada11 aged 59.
Howard married Elsie ROBINSON on November 9, 1929.11 Elsie was born Aug14, 190711 and died on January 18, 1995 in West Vancouver, , British Columbia, Canada.11
Children from this marriage were:
+ 50 M i. Howard Douglas BLUE
51 M ii. Wallace Gordon BLUE was born on March 20, 193311 and died on October 4, 194211 aged 9.
52 M iii. John Russell BLUE was born on November 22, 193611 and died on August 29, 198111 aged 44.
53 F iv. Mary-Jean BLUE
Mary-Jean married James Arthur COYLE.
45. Alvin Milton BLUE (Hattie SKINNER3, Harriet "Hattie" GILMORE2, Thomas1) was born in October 1908 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada, died in 1962 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada18 aged 54, and was buried in Paisley Cemetery, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
Paisley Advocate December 10, 1962 Alvin M. Blue , 54 Of Paisley Dies
PAISLEY- Alvin M. Blue , a well-known resident of Paisley and for a number of years the Shell Oil dealer in the area, died Saturday, in the Bruce County Hospital, Walkerton.
Mr. Blue was hospitalized Wednesday after he suffered a heart seizure at home. He was 54 years of age.
Surviving are his wife the former Lillian mcKessock, who he married 25 years ago, his mother, Mrs. Malcolm Blue, and three sons, John, Alan and Blair all at home and attending school.
Other survivors are two sisters, Gladys, Mrs. Elmer Garland of Goderich, Annabella, Mrs. William Stanley of Timmins, and a brother, Howard, of Goderich. Mr. Blue Sr. died some time ago.
In his youth, Mr. Blue was a member of the Paisley champion junior hockey team. In recent years he was a member of the recreational council and assisted in coaching minor hockey teams.
Mr. Blue was a member of the IOOF and an elder in the Paisley Baptist Church.
Alvin married Lillian Louise MacKESSOCK, daughter of William Joseph MacKESSOCK and Amelia Louise "Minnie" MUNN, in 1937. Lillian was born in 1908 in Starleigh, , Saskatchewan, Canada, died on February 24, 1992 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada20 aged 84, and was buried in Paisley Cemetery, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 54 F i. Sheila Marie MacKESSOCK
+ 55 M ii. John Livingston BLUE
+ 56 M iii. Alan Richard BLUE
+ 57 M iv. Blair BLUE
|
