Canada’s oldest citizen — and the country’s last living link to the Victorian era — celebrated her 113th birthday just before Christmas at a B.C. residential hospital.
And after a year in which Merle Barwis’s extreme longevity placed her among the 13 oldest people on the planet and among the 10 longest-lived Canadians of all time, the Vancouver Island resident Monday also becomes the oldest British Columbian ever at 113 years and 14 days.
‘From early flight to people on the moon’: Canada’s oldest ‘super-centenarian’ celebrates 113th birthday in B.C. | National Post