Fanny Martland

Fanny Martland (née Barlow) (19 November 1888 – 1 December 2001) was a British-Canadian supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She may have been the oldest known person in Canada when she died.

Biography
Fanny Martland was born Fanny Barlow on 19 November 1888 in Lancashire, England, UK, as one of 13 children born to parents John and Sarah Barlow. In June 1913, aged 24, she emigrated to Quebec, Canada.

A few years later, Fanny married Charles Martland in Quebec, but the couple never had children. Fanny and Charles moved to Montreal, Quebec and lived there together until Charles died in 1946. When Fanny was 85, she moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. By the time she was a supercentenarian, she was living in Burnaby, directly east of Vancouver.

On 6 August 2001, Fanny may have become the oldest living person in Canada following the death of 113-year-old Zelda McCague, although 111-year-old Marie-Laure Nadon (1889-2001) was believed to be the oldest Canadian at the time.

Fanny Martland passed away on 1 December 2001 in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 113 years, 12 days. She was succeeded as Canada’s oldest person by 111-year-old Evangeline Saulnier.