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Island story
Christena G. Whiteway Rankin is recorded in the 1931 Pictou Island census as the wife of George Rankin in a large west-end household that included Mae, Robert, Bertha, Ernest, Anna and Ida. Her Pioneer Cemetery monument with George at R2-013 records Christena G. Whiteway Rankin, 1886–1952. The household later connects directly to the biography of their son Ernest “Ellwood” Rankin, farmer and ferry operator. Current evidence establishes Christena’s family position strongly, while her own earlier life and Whiteway ancestry remain subjects for further research. Ida Doris Rankin’s delayed-birth registration names George Rankin and Christena Whiteway as her parents, independently confirming the family connection.
Family connections
- Spouse of: George D. Rankin
- Parent of: Ellwood Rankin
- Parent of: Bertha A. MacLean
- Parent of: Robert D. Rankin
Places & memorials
- West-end Rankin farm
- Pictou Island
Pioneer Cemetery memorial
The memorial establishes a family or commemorative relationship. It does not by itself prove burial or interment at this location.
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R2-013 · NovaStory 3405
Record reference: R2-013 · NovaStory 3405
Related PIHS history
Sources and photo credits
- 1931 census Unit 5
- NovaStory R2-013
- Rankin family reconciliation
- Nova Scotia Archives delayed birth ID 417247 · Ida Doris Rankin
Image: Pictou–Antigonish Regional Library, NovaStory · Public domain.