Fonds 106 - Tremain family fonds

Lottie Summers was born in Cubbington, England on July 30, 1886. Her husband, Walter Spencer Tremain was born on September 16, 1884 at Blything, Suffolk, England. In 1910, Lottie accepted a proposal of marriage from Walter Spencer Tremain who then left England and moved to Canada. In 1912, Lottie sailed to Canada to join her fiancé and they were married on May 24, 1912 in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. Later that year, W.S. Tremain completed his religious studies and assumed charge of his first parish, that of St. Patrick's in Streamtown, Saskatchewan. Their first child, Spencer Lancelot "Lance" was born on July 5, 1913. In the spring of 1914, the Reverend W.S. Tremain and his family were sent to the Diocese of Mackenzie where they were to remain until the summer of 1919. Reverend Tremain and his family lived in three communities: Fort Norman, Fort Simpson, and Hay River. Lottie Tremain gave birth to a daughter, Winnie, in 1915 but the infant died the following year. In 1919, the Tremain family left the Northwest Territories and returned to England. After working in Chivers Colton for one year, the Tremain family moved to New Zealand, arriving there on December 24, 1920. Lottie Tremain's third child, Gwendoline Tremain-Runyard was born in New Zealand in the 1920s and passed away in California on January 14, 2013.