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Herryflliietiiey Garland Whitton wu bomrod, Friday when uhiatoriul plaque was unveiled in thaCouncilOiambonin Ottawa City Hall. The insulation on the Ontario Heritage Foundational-quorum: CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH Wl-m'mN, 0.0.. GEE“ mum. The first woman prayer of Canada’s capital. 1951-56 and mm. Charlotte Whitton was born in ,Rentrw. Qdilclled there and at Queen‘s University. In lmahobecamesecretary Last ride to Renfrew Charlotte Whilton, one of Renfrew's most famous daughters and a former Ottawa mayor. will be officially buried Saturday in ‘i‘homsonville Metery. Miss Whitton died January 25 in an Ottawa hospital and en tombment was in an Ottawa vault for the winter. is requested in her will. the driver of the hearse taking her body from Ottawa to Renfrew for burial will be her former chauffeur â€" Donal Lsfond. The official welcoming party - consisting of town council and president Helen Roach of the Renfrew Business and Professional Women's Group â€" will meet at the fairgrounds at 10.30 am Saturday. The party will then more by motorcade to the cemetery. The general public is invited to join the motorcade at the fairgrounds or at the cemetery. says Mrs Frank Ryan. a sister of Miss Whitton. The funeral parade will me». e down Coumbes Street. proceed left at the Raglan-Hail in- tersection and down Raglan Street South to the cemetery. Canon Serson Clarke will conductthe May 17 serum. Interment is sdieduled for 11 o'clock. Following the burial. a private reception will be hold for personal friends of Mrs Ryan at the home of Lillian Handlord on Raglan Street South. of the Canadian Council on Child Welfare (later the Canadian Welfare Council) and the first executive director. 1925-1941, worked energetically to improve the condition of indigent motheis. Fiery and controversial, Charlotte Whitton represented Canada on the League of Nation Social Questions Committee and investigated Alberta welfare practices for the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, of which she was a lifelong member. She wrote prolificaily on a variety of subjects including lumbering on the Ottawa. and Canadian women in war. Her many distinctions included honorary degrees from Smith College. Queens and Acadia Universities. Charlotte (ionic) Whitton was well known In Renfrew where she grew up and had many friends. At the some time she ranks as one of our great Canadians. Twin, in successive years. 1951 and 1952. she was chosen by writers of the Canadian Press as Canadian Woman of the Year. Seven times she repraented Canada at Geneva, Switzeer as delegate to Social Questions Section of the [origin of Nations. in 1953. she wentto England to represent Ottawa at the Coronation of Qieen Elizabeth. In 1911 when she was given the honorary degree of Doctor of laws by means University she was cited as the University's most distinguished graduate. Charlotte Whitton was born in Renfrew on March 8. 1596 and she was educated in local schools. After wlmi'ing several scholarships at Renfrew Collegiate she went on to Queen's University. Here she had a brilliant career as a student, jour- nahst, administrator, dcbater and athlete which were fields in which she later was to distmguish herself. She graduated in 19l7 with the degree of MA. Charlotte \l'hitton's funeral Saturday morning brought many friends After leaving University she became Assistant Secretary of the Canadian Council of Child Welfare (which later became the Canadian Welfare Council). For many years she followed welfare work and she made valuable contributions to the work of this organization. She wrote many articles and pamphlets on welfare and was one of the founders and for many years editor of the publication Canadian Welfare. She travelled extensively on Council work and she addressed many meetings and conferences on social welfare both in Canada and in the United States. Of her services it was said that "she put the Social Welfare of Canada on the basis of a science." In i922, she became Secretary to the Hon Thomas A Low who was federal member for South Renfrew and Minister of Trade and Commerce in the Mackenzie King cabinet. In this position she received As Ottawa resudenis celebrated the ored by O valuable political training which was useful when she entered city.pol.itica ill Ottawa. In 1960 she or elected the first woman controller of the city of Ottawa. In 1961 on the death of Mayor Goodwin aha beanie acting mayor in August andin Octoborahe was voted by Council to the office of Mayor. ln l851 she ran for Mayor of Ottawa and was elected for a two-year term by the highest vote ever recorded in the city. in 1934 Charlotte Whitton was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire. in 1935 she was awarded the Jubilee Medal and in 1937 the Coronation Medal. She received countless other awards and honors and her abilities were recognized not only in all parts of Canada but in the United Sates as well. Yet never throughout her distinguished career did she forget Renfrew and the Friends fulfill ‘ Charlotte's~ wish 7 1 Ottawa Mayor Lorry Greenberg. Senator '5. I v u. Ottawa Valley. She wrote monylarii for The Mercury and other periodicals various phases of life in her old town. 1 wrote the book “A HundrodYuruh v which was the story of lumbartni in - Ottawa Valley as carriod out by Gilli Brothers of Broolide. she often «it - meetings in Renfrew and the often Ipolr of humorous events in he days in Ben‘- trew. She willed many of her possessionato the McDougall Mill Museum in Rmfrow on they now form an extensive displayih her honor. in this display, among v souvenirs and citations, In I faded little- document in a simple frame which 1mg. hung on the wall of Charlotte WhthI' , private office. ' . It is an old certificate from Rents; u Public School to cerdfy that Lottie Whitfo had been awarded Honor Promotion When being passed from Grade [to Grade It. Festival of Spring. Miss CharlotleWhitlon. former mayor and long time politician, was quietly buried in Renfrew. The motorcade from Ottawa arrived at the Renfrew fair grounds at 10.45 am. Saturday. The hearse bearing Miss Whilton's body was driven by her former chauffeur Donal Lafond The long line of cars made its way slowly along (Thumbes Street, then south on Raglan Street to Thomsonville Cemetery. The shorl funeral service wasconducled by Canon Serson Clarke A Renfrew piper played at the end of the service. Many well known citizens and politicians gathered at the grave side. These included and relatives to Renfrew. Shown here are Renfrew Mayor Norm Wilson. Reeve Audrey Green. Ottawa Mayor Lorry Greenberg. a nephew. Stephen Whitton and his two sons. George Mcflrailh. Renfrew Mayor Norm Wilson and Renfrew Town Councillors. as well as Miss Whitton’s nieces and nephews. Bart Whitton, Stephen Whitton and Mrs Margret Mills. numerous granA dnieces and grandnephe'ws. Two Renfrew girls in army cadet uniforms stood at attention as the casket was being lowered. Bouquets of violets were dropped onto the casket by the cadets. Miss Whitton's favorite flowers hfidldbeen gathered where she played as a C l i In the August 7, 1958 issue of the Mer- cury Miss Whitton wrote about Renfrew to commemorate one hundred years of *#__._‘ municipal government here. The story began with: The Bonnechere flowing through thee, The Laurentian Hills around. 0 hnnnic wee Scots clachan' Where is thy equal found? With sharp narrative detail she . describes the early life of people in the Second Chute. their deeds. legacia and their cemeteries. ‘ Appropriately enough she ends the story win a (uni wish; one recorded in her will and carried out last Saturday morning. And when i come to die May l rest in the hills of Renfrew ' Beneath a cloud free sky