Annie Babbitt Bulyea (17 September 1863 – 27 August 1934) was a Canadian temperance leader. She was the honorary president of the Dominion

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(W. C. T. U.), and president of the Baptist Women's Missionary society of

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Biography

Annie Blanche Babbitt was born at Gagetown,

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, Canada, 17 September 1863. She was the second daughter of Robert Thorne Babbit, Registrar of Queens County, New Brunswick. She was educated in the public schools of Gagetown. Bulyea became a member of the W. C. T. U. in

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; and on taking up her residence in

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, she at once affiliated with the local union at Qu'Appelle, of which body she became president. In 1899, she removed to Regina, in the same province, where her ability found early recognition and she was elected president. Later, she was chosen superintendent of W. C. T. U. work in the

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. Removing to

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in 1905, she was made honorary president of Edmonton Union. Since that time, Bulyea was chosen honorary president of the Alberta Provincial W. C. T. U., and also of the Dominion W. C. T. U. She also served as president of the Baptist Women's Missionary society of western Canada.

Personal life

She married George H. V. Bulyea in 1885, and removed with him to western Canada. He was a

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and the first

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. They had one son, in 1885, Percy McFarlane Bulyea, who died at the age of fifteen on February 5, 1901, of a paralytic affliction. The Bulyeas were active members of the

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. After her husband's retirement, the Bulyeas moved, and settled in

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, where they had previously resided during summers, at their four-hectare fruit orchard and summer home. Annie Blanche Babbitt Bulyea died at Edmonton, 27 August 1934. Burial was in the Qu'Appelle cemetery.

References

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