Alice Christina Milroy (1871 - 1949)

Alice's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Milroy family tree.

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Alice's Family

Norbury Joshua Milroy

Jane Peasley Milroy

Alice Christina Milroy

Parents:

Norbury Joshua Milroy

Unknown - Unknown

Jane Peasley Milroy

Unknown - Unknown

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Jane (Milroy) Bowman

Added: Oct 17, 2019

Mary (Carmichael) Milroy 5 generation photo

Added: Oct 02, 2014

Robert Milroy

Added: Oct 02, 2014

Lafayette J. Milroy

Added: Oct 02, 2014

John Cornelius Milroy

Added: Oct 02, 2014

John Cornelius Milroy

Added: Oct 02, 2014

Grave of John and Jane Bowman

Added: Oct 02, 2014

Grave of Mary Carmichael Milroy

Added: Oct 02, 2014

Grave of Robert Milroy gravesite

Added: Oct 02, 2014

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In 1871, in the year that Alice Christina Milroy was born, on July 20th, British Columbia became the 6th province of Canada. While Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia, Victoria was chosen as the capital..

In 1883, at the age of just 12 years old, Alice was alive when on June 16th, children at a children's variety show in Victoria Hall began rushing the stage area and lobby for promised prizes. In the stampede, 183 children of the 1100 present - most of them 3 to 4 years old - were crushed and asphyxiated.

In 1905, Alice was 34 years old when the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.

In 1939, Alice was 68 years old when in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed "Disney's Folly" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White.

In 1949, in the year of Alice Christina Milroy's passing, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."