Mary M McIver

1915 - 1959  (44 years)

• Name	Mary M McIver
  Nickname	Sister Clara Eugene
  Birth	4 Feb 1915	Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
  Gender	Female
  Death	27 Nov 1959	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Burial	Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Person ID	I3181	The McIver Family Tree
  Last Modified	4 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Eugene Lionel McIver,   b. 20 Oct 1888, Hampton, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 19 Nov 1962, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Clara Jane Clarkin,   b. 12 Dec 1889, Emyvale, Prince Edward Island, Canada d. 23 Mar 1918, Butte, Montana, USA (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	8 Nov 1910	St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church, Lot 65, Queen's County, Prince Edward Island, Canada
  Family ID	F338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Census - 1921 Census of Canada, Newton, Prince Edward Island (previously Lot 26)
  		Document - Clara McIver US Border Crossing - 1916 Immigration document for Clara, and her three oldest children, Leo, Raymond, and Mary, with destination of Butte, Montana.
  		Document - Clara McIver US Border Crossing - 1916 Passenger list including Clara, and her three oldest children, Leo, Raymond, and Mary, with destination of Butte, Montana. It appears that another family member, Peter Clarkin, was also travelling with them.

  
  

  Headstones

  Headstone - Sister Clara Eugene McIver Located at Holy Cross Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

  
  

• Notes

  Sister Clara Eugene was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1915, the middle child of five children to Eugene McIver and Clara Clarkin McIver. She was three years old when her mother died in 1918. The two younger children – Irene and Joseph were placed in the care of Eugene’s sister, Margaret Gertrude Slavin. The Slavin family lived in California and contact seems to be lost with this branch of the family. Eugene, with the help of his second wife, Beatrice Duffy, raised Sister Clara Eugene and her two brothers, Leo and Ray, in Kinkora while working as a painter. At the age of twenty years (1935) she joined the Sisters of Charity in Halifax. Over the years she worked in Halifax, North Sydney, Quebec City and at the Halifax Infirmary in Halifax, N.S in various household departments. It is in Halifax where she was diagnosed with cancer and died on November 27, 1959 at the early age of forty-four years. She is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Halifax.