Educator, journalist.
Born on the famiy farm in the RM of Argyle on 21 April 1917, daughter of Hannah Isabella Clark (1883-1945) and William James Tisdale (1879-1955), niece of Walter Felix Tisdale and John Ephram Tisdale, she taught at Crystal City School (1939-1940) before working as a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. She spent some years in England where she married fellow journalist Samuel Charles “Sam” Street (1915-1972). They had no children. After her husband's death, she returned to Canada and the Free Press, working there until retirement in April 1981. She died at Victoria, British Columbia on 17 April 1990.
Birth registration [Isabel Clare Tisdale], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Hannah Isabella Tisdale], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Samuel Charles Street], Winnipeg Free Press, 25 November 1972, page 37.
“William and Elizabeth Tisdale family” in Come Into Our Heritage: R.M. of Argyle, 1882-1982 by Rural Municipality of Argyle, 1981, page 678.
Death registration [Claire Isabel Street], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Claire Tisdale Street], Victoria Times Colonist, 19 April 1990, page 41.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 April 2024
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