Suffered permanent loss of hearing in her late teens, due to illness. She went to Winnipeg for medical attention and continued there for some time to work. When she returned, she kept house for her brothers Gordon and “Shorty” (George). Later she moved to town and worked for Mrs. Goulding cleaning in the hotel.

There is an Edna Boyle listed in the 1910 Winnipeg Henderson Directory. She is listed as “emp North West Laundry lvs 109 Aikins”. (“lvs” means “lives”, “emp” means “employee”). She was not listed in Winnipeg as of the 1908 directory (I don’t have access to the 1909 one).

There is an Edna Boyle listed in the 1911 Winnipeg Hendersion Directory, as “Ivs Dufferin cor Robertson” (or, “lives on the corner of Dufferin and Robertson”). These streets do not cross currently; and they didn’t in a 1913 map I found.

There is no Edna Boyle listed by the 1912 directory.

When she retired in 1958 she moved to Oliver Lodge in Saskatoon, and in 1963 to Lion’s Hostel Lodge in Preeceville. She was known by some of the Boyle nephews and nieces as “Little Auntie”, because of her shortness in height. She was also able to read lips.

Birth place and date verified by Manitoba Vital Statistics records.