Olive Wimbush

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=120 BGCOLOR="#660000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="03d3f781dvldxa.png"> <div>  <FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#66CC66" FACE="Brush Script MT" >Henry  Wimbush</FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFF33" FACE="Arial" >  </FONT><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home"><B>Home</B></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Raphael Tuck"><B>Raphael Tuck</B></A><B>   </B><A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="List of Series"><B>List of Series</B></A><B> </B><B>  </B><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Acknowledgments"><B>Acknowledgments</B></A><B> </B><B>   </B><A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact"><B>Contact</B></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=360 style=" border-left: 15px solid #660000;border-right: 15px solid #660000;" BGCOLOR="#CCFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>Olive (Wimbush) Keane</B></div> <div> <B>      </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Olive Keane: daughter of Henry B. Wimbush; Born: May 9, 1901 Died: Dec.5, 1985</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>             Married: John C. B. Keane in 1930, a childhood sweetheart and moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada.</B></div> <div> <B>                       </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#990000" FACE="Arial" ><B>They had two children:     Jassamine M.C. B. Keane, (Barron), 1934</B></FONT></div> <div> <B>                                                                                       Annabelle M. Keane (Schuring), 1935</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Family Tree"><B> <img src="HTMLobj-862/aniGif.gif" border="0" align="bottom" width="50" height="50">  </B></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>                            </B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="847" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 307 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="364a4270.jpg" border=0 width="420" height="295" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="3639e260.jpg" border=0 width="414" height="294" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 26 WIDTH="427"><div> Olive Painting</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="420"><div> Painted in 1980</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Recollections of My Mother - O.K.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now, mother's life before I was born, of what I can remember, was that she supported the Suffragettes Movement. She taught ballet dancing, and got the young ladies that worked in the factories to do exercises on the roofs of the buildings on their lunch breaks for the betterment of their health. She had a little Flat in London that she shared with a sister.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When my father went overseas to the Second World War in 1939, mother joined the war effort in Montreal by volunteering for the 'Canada Packers'. They formed a group known as the 'Kings Knitters' and feverishly made 100's of wool socks, gloves, balaclavas and scarves. She had many talents, one being a very good seamstress, as were many of her sisters. She made little baby clothes stitching the seams by hand. With her Singer Sewing Machine she made most of mine and my sister's summer clothes while we were growing up and all the dance costumes over the many years. I remember the layers and layers of crinolines for the tutus and the pretty butterfly winged costume that she made for me while we lived in Montreal. She encouraged us both to study music, piano, ballet and art.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Being in a painter's family, all the children learned to paint. She would watch her older sisters help their father doing the large washes on the water colours paintings. She loved to paint flowers and landscapes and sold many of her paintings over the course of her life. She painted in water colours right up to the end of her life. She was a member of the Victoria Art Gallery, and Victoria Society of Artists.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>When Dad returned from England at the end of W.W.II in 1945 they bought a chicken farm outside of Montreal and called the place 'Backacrers', they had 2000 chickens and 11 sheep. The venture was unsuccessful and lived up to its name.</B></div> <div> <B>They sold the farm and moved the family to Victoria, B.C. in the summer of 1947, they bought a large trailer and towed it behind a new Ford car, with two children, two dogs and a cat, driving across the US to the west coast. It was a long one month journey with many stops, doing about 20 miles a day. This is where they were to spend the rest of their days together.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Mother and father were both members of The Little Theatre, now known as the Langham Court Theatre. They have many photos and memorabilia of mother's work and acting accomplishments from 1947 to 1960 in Victoria, B.C.</B></div> <div> <B>She loved playing golf and played for most of her life, she won many trophies in Montreal and Victoria's Uplands Golf Course.</B></div> <div> <B>The Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C. is indebted to her voluntary work and during her Presidency in the 1960's a new wing was added. Organizing and raising funds was one of her many talents.          </B></div> <div> <B>She remained a member of the Women's Auxiliary until the end of her life.                </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Annabelle Schuring June 20, 2004</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>