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In March 2021, Ridgway celebrated her 114th birthday, becoming the first British-born person to do so since [[Ethel Lang]] in 2014, and the first Canada resident to do so since [[Ellen Gibb]] in 2019. Three days after her 114th birthday, she received her first dose of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-19_vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine]. |
In March 2021, Ridgway celebrated her 114th birthday, becoming the first British-born person to do so since [[Ethel Lang]] in 2014, and the first Canada resident to do so since [[Ellen Gibb]] in 2019. Three days after her 114th birthday, she received her first dose of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-19_vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine]. |
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PRidgway2.png|Ridgway with her husband Ernie in an undated photo |
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PRidgway107.png|Ridgway at the age of 107 |
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*[https://globalnews.ca/news/6658280/phyllis-ridgway-turns-113/ Canada’s oldest recorded person turns 113] Global News, 10 March 2020 |
*[https://globalnews.ca/news/6658280/phyllis-ridgway-turns-113/ Canada’s oldest recorded person turns 113] Global News, 10 March 2020 |
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Phyllis E. Ridgway (born 10 March 1907) is a British-born Canadian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group. She is the oldest known living person in Canada.
Biography
Ridgway was born in Lincolnshire, England on 10 March 1907. She was married to her husband, Ernest Joseph "Ernie" Ridgway, for 54 years until his death in 1987. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ridgway became the oldest known living person in Canada following the death of 112 year-old Sarah Patenaude-Bruyere on 17 February 2020. At the time of her 113th birthday in March 2020, she had four grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson.
In March 2021, Ridgway celebrated her 114th birthday, becoming the first British-born person to do so since Ethel Lang in 2014, and the first Canada resident to do so since Ellen Gibb in 2019. Three days after her 114th birthday, she received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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References
- Canada’s oldest recorded person turns 113 Global News, 10 March 2020
- Happy 114th birthday Aunt Phyllis... Loren Brown Joachim on Facebook, 10 March 2021
- Happy 114th birthday to my grandmother, Phyllis... Barb Ridgway on Twitter, 10 March 2021
- Phyllis Ridgway, Canada's oldest person, received her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine... Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre on Twitter, 13 March 2021
- Ernest J Ridgway Find A Grave
| Canada's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Flore Beland • Emma Bingham • Herman Smith-Johannsen • Agnes Munce • Nellie Thompson • Alice Sjoquist • Lillian Ross • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Marie-Louise Meunier • Maria Mallozzi • Zelda McCague • Fanny Martland • Evangeline Saulnier • Anne Samson • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Jennie Fitzgerald • Margaret Fitzgerald • Pearl Lutzko • Cora Hansen • Yvonne Lamoureux • Merle Barwis • Colombe Benoit-Leclerc • Orma Slack • Marguerite Wabano • Lilian Cornell • Ellen Gibb • Sarah Patenaude-Bruyere • Phyllis Ridgway • Cecile Klein • Shige Mineshiba • Mabel Mah • Helen Doan |