====== Reid, Marian ====== (1 June 1895-2 June 1981), political wife. Parents: Kenneth (Kenny) Stuart (1865-1940) and his wife Flora McDonald (1872-1904), who were married in 1891 and had six children. Kenny Stuart farmed near the GC villages of Green Valley, Lancaster and Williamstown, and was assistant to the cheesemaker at Williamstown. Mrs Stuart was fluent in Gaelic. In 1908, four years after his wife’s death from Bright’s disease, Kenny Stuart took his family to Vancouver. “They had a trunk full of sandwiches which lasted them the six days and nights on the train.” (//Trails to Mannville//) The Stuart family then moved to Mannville, Alberta, where Kenny Stuart took out land and resumed his life as a farmer. It was remembered that he never returned to Ontario for a visit. Marian Stuart was born near Green Valley, GC, when the family was living on her grandfather Stuart’s farm. As a teenager, Marian helped her aunt operate a boarding house in Calgary. Afterwards she worked as a housemaid in the Mannville area. She was married on 19 Sept. 1919 to R.G. (Dick) Reid. (five children) Mr and Mrs Reid farmed in the Mannville area. They moved to Edmonton when he was elected to the Alberta Legislature. Dick Reid was premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935. Marian Reid died in Edmonton, the year after her husband. ---- //Trails to Mannville// (1975-1977), II, 6-7 * Robin Stuart, //The Kenneth (Kenny) Stuart Family//, 16-page mimeographed typescript * pp. 726-733 from unidentified local or family history [<6>]