Aileen Aletha Meagher

1910 - 1987  (76 years)

• Name	Aileen Aletha Meagher  [1]
  Birth	26 Nov 1910	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Departure	Liverpool, England   [1]
  Death	2 Aug 1987	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Person ID	P-1240897525	Weedmark Family Tree
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2011

  
  

  Father	Arthur Thomas Meagher,   b. 22 Dec 1879, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 1968, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Mary Francis Mulcahy,   b. 1886   d. 1962, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 76 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 26 Nov 1910 - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Departure - - Liverpool, England Death - 2 Aug 1987 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos » Slide Show		Aileen Meagher
  		1936 Olympic Games - Berlin, Germany Aileen Meagher and Canadian team, U.S. team, and British team prior to presentation with medals in Berlin. (Meagher is at the front of the group.) Hugh Townsend, Sports Editor, interviewed Aileen Meagher for his article "Memories of Berlin", The Chronicle-Herald, 21 June 1976. Aileen Meagher, Dorothy Brookshaw, Hila Cameron and Mildred Dolson were Canada's bronze medal winning relay team. Halifax sprinter Aileen Meagher nervously, but proudly, ascended the victory podium at the Berlin Olympics. The world looked on, Adolf Hitler was in the crowd, and the place was lined with black-shirt soldiers. Meagher recalled, "A lot of things were different 40 years ago. . . . I just went out and ran around the track as fast as I could go. I didn't have a diet, no special conditioning, I didn't know much about training. I just prepared myself to run as fast as I could." [MG 1, vol. 2999, no. 1, between pp. 232-233] Date: August 1936 Reference no.: Aileen Meagher NSARM MG 1 vol. 2997 no. 2 p. 275 / microfilm no.: 9488
  		''New hat, suit & shoes bo[ugh]t in London: Tho[ugh]t I was very posh!'' Aileen holding a bouquet of flowers. Forty years later, Meagher told Hugh Townsend, Sports Editor, that despite the team's bronze medal, the team received little fanfare upon its return to Canada. Meagher recalled, ''There wasn't much of a welcoming. I was met at the station by my friends. The Herald and Mail gave me a bouquet of flowers . . . but that was about it. No fanfare.'' Townsend's story ''Memories of Berlin'' appeared in The Chronicle-Herald, 21 June 1976.[MG 1, vol. 2999, no. 1, between pp. 232-233] Date: 1936 Reference no.: Aileen Meagher NSARM MG 1 vol. 2997 no. 2 p. 156 / microfilm no.: 9488

  
  

  Headstones

  Arthur Thomas Meagher and Mary Francis Mulcahy daughter Aileen Meagher

  
  

  Histories		Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame Aileen Meagher
  		Aileen Meagher article appeared in The Bluenose, Christmas Edition, 1936 Date: 1936 Reference no.: Aileen Meagher NSARM MG 1 vol. 2997 no. 2 p. 275 / microfilm no.: 9488

  
  

• Sources

  [S432478687] Ancestry.com, Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2008.Original data - Library and Archives Canada. Passenger Lists, 1865-1935. Ottawa, Canada: Library and Archives Canada. RG76, T-479 to T-520, T-4689 to T-4874, T-14700 to T-14939, C-451). Birth date: abt 1911Birth place: CanadaArrival date: 24 Aug 1934Arrival place: QuebecDeparture date: Departure place: Liverpool, England