Mary Constance FAIRBURN (née BONNELL) [1900-1996]

Mary Constance Bonnell born Fernie British Columbia 6 May 1900

1911 census Kootenay British Columbia Canada

Saul Bonnel Physician/Surgeon born Nova Scotia Canada

Maude Eva Bonnell born 1873 New Brunswick Canada

Mary Constance Bonnell 10 born 1900 British Columbia

Franklin Richardson Bonnell 8 born British Columbia

Edith Bonnell 3  born British Columbia

30 July 1939 Passenger List arriving Liverpool from Montreal

Thomas C Fairburn  46 marine engineer UK address Wyke House Cloughton Scarborough

Mrs C Fairburn 39 place of last residence China

October 1943 Passenger List arriving New York from Mormugao Portuguese India Gripsholm

Mary C Fairburn age 43 nurse married  born Fernie Canada

1948 Passenger List  Hong Kong via San Francisco to Canada

Mary Constance Fairburn  47 married In transit to Canada born Fernie B.C.

UK Allied Prisoners of War

Thomas Campbell Fairburn Lieutenant R N R dob 19 March 1893 Yorkshire

1962 Canada Voters Lists Vancouver South BC Canada

Thomas Campbell Fairburn retired and Mrs Constance Fairburn HD

Canada Death Index Thomas Campbell Fairburn died 24 December 1977 aged 84

Samual Bonnell had a distinguished career. He was a politician and physician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1917 as a Member of the Unionist Party to represent the riding of Kootenay East. He was defeated in the 1921 election. Prior to his federal political experience, he was a captain of the Canadian Army Medical Corps between 1915 and 1917. He was mayor of Fernie, British Columbia in 1907. He died in 1973, at the age of 101.
 

Mary died in 1996. This comes from a December 2011 article in the Vancouver Sun found by hkcds, that has a lot of information about the Fairburn family:

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20111224/283682591484406