Gertrude Partridge with great grand-daughter, Holly Partridge in Murray River, P.E.|. October I994

After the war, she worked as a lab technician at the Childrens Memorial Hospital in Montreal, with Hilda Smith, in the Allergy department, until 1957. Then she worked as a microscopist in the optical laboratory of the International Canadian Research division of the International Paper Com— pany in Hawkesbury, Ontario. Canadian International Paper Company (C.I.P.) was the main company in town. Her son Roderick worked for the C.I.P., becoming later the manager of communications in Montreal until 1990.

Moving to Ottawa in 1965 Gertrude became a member of the Voice of Women, worked with the Ottawa Committee to End The War in Vietnam and sold real estate for six months.

Gertrude’s first book, Glen Partridge Remembrances, was written as a loving tribute to her late husband, who died in Prince Edward Island on May 10, 1981, from a heart attack.