The Dey family originates from what we have been led to believe , in Manchester England, where Joseph Dey was born in 1830. Joseph married in 1852 young Annie Buckely of Dublin. We are still searching here to determine how this couple would have met. Joseph and Annie emigrated to Canada, bringing their first born Annie Elizabeth , who was baptized in Goldington, Bedfordshire, England (1854) along with them and settled in Hull Quebec. ( Jessie Smith has often mentioned that the Deys first arrived in the USA, then came to Quebec.... this has yet to be confirmed). Joseph's first two sons were born in Hull, more than likley at the home on the corner of Bridge and Main, that was called Bellevue Garden.
In 1863 we find Joseph Dey, listed in the Ottawa Citizen Directory as a boat builder, located on Duke St, LBF (we have assumed this to be left bank front) . Joseph Dey got into the boat building business and established a Boat Works on the Rideau Canal system in Ottawa. He built a small craft called the "Naphtha launch" which was used to control the flow of the logs that were being floated down the Ottawa River ( we are searching to see if we can find more about this boat works).
In 1868, Sutherland`s City of Ottawa Directory, has Joseph Dey listed as proprietor of the Bellevue Gardens, in Hull Quebec. (As well as in the 1869-1870 Sutherland directory ). The Hunter , Rose & Co`s City of Ottawa Directory for the year 1870-1871, as well as the Lovell Directory shows that the Bellevue Gardens were still under the ownership of Joseph Dey who appears to be living at 105 Nicholas St. in Ottawa.
By 1873 , Joseph Dey was proprietor of a hotel at the corner of George and Sussex Streets, which appears listed in several Ottawa directories into the 1875s as the Shakespeare House. The location in 1870 was listed as the property of one Alfred Laurin ( saloon keeper). It was named then the Shakespeare Hotel ( Alfred Laurin appears as the head cook at the Russell House in 1873-1874) . Joseph Dey in addition to owning the hotel, continued his venture of boat building and by 1875 has moved his operation to 201 Canal east . This appears to be at the intersection of Wibord St. or Sussex St (depending on the directory listing) and is co existing with Russell`s Boat House or in fact has taken over this entity as Russells does not appear in any of the Ottawa directories during the life time of Dey`s Boat Works.
By 1881 Joseph Dey has moved his family to larger accommodations at 10 Currier St and we find his son Edwin now has taken an active part in the boat building business. There are a few competing firms in this industry, one being owned by Andrew W. Jones, who is also located at the canal basin, Jones was constant companion to the Dey Bros, where as W T Cleave , L E Samson , J B Boucher , P N Mason and Antoine Ratte appeared on the scene in later years.
Edgar Frank Dey who was living at 125 Arthur street in that area called Ashburnham Hill, appears in the directory listing as a boat builder about 1883 , providing Joseph with two sons active in his business. The name Dey Bros. , Dey Brothers, and or Dey`s Boat Works does not appear in the various city directories until 1885, up until that time the Deys themselves are listed individually as boat builders. As the directory listings became more and more evident, Dey Bros. was listed as of Edgar F and Edwin P Dey, while Joseph Dey was still listed as a boat builder.
Joseph and his sons Edgar , Edwin and a bit later on William got themselves involved in a favorite Canadian pastime that was fast becoming the rage of the day. They built the first indoor skating rink along side their boat works on the canal. The first directory listing for the skating rink was found in 1885 , The Ottawa Directory shows Dey`s Bros. boat works and skating rink at 201-203 Canal Street East, where Rideau Street intersects.
From this period on to the early 1920`s Dey Bros., Dey Brothers Boat Works and the Dey`s Skating Rink ( later Arena) can be found listed in most every Directory published for the city of Ottawa. The third surviving son William Ernest taking his place in the Dey Bros enterprise in 1889 when the family was residing at 13 Theodore St
It is here in 1880's that we find John Cockburn stating that he designed his first Ottawa River Pointer (a small water craft used by the lumber men to sort the logs coming down river) while spending time in the Dey's Arena.
Unfortunately the lumber barons and railway barons of the day were the ruling class of this time and the Dey's were convinced to sell their boat works site to accommodate the Canada Atlantic Railway's desire to run their tracks along the east side of the Rideau Canal, past the canal basin to a site that is now known as the old Union Station, just below south of Rideau St.
Unfazed, the Dey's continued to pursue the skating rink situation and built a large indoor rink at the corner of Gladstone and Bay in Ottawa, which was close to their residential homes on Florence St.
( Isabel Laing, granddaughter of Joseph Dey, and her two grandsons, Shawn and Michael Loucks posing at memorial to Dey's Glandstone arena)
They had to expand once again and they built a much larger rink just insight of the Parliament building of the Nation's capital. It was however in the rink on Gladstone and Bay that the Senators of Ottawa won their first Stanley Cup in 1903. The players on the team of that time had grown up in and around the area and were known as neighbours to the both the Dey and Laing families.
Inside Photos of the Laurier Street Arena
The Dey family made its fortune from the events that were housed in these arenas and the family cut its losses by leaving the field of operations as other more powerful syndicates began to built bigger and better arenas. Joseph had died in 1904, his sons continued on until 1921 and 1943 when each in his time passed away. Annie Elizabeth married William Scoular and passed also in 1943. The youngest daughter Beatrice Joanna Dey married Robert Scott Laing in 1900 and lived to be 89, dying in Canada's centennial year 1967.
Culled from a pamphlet put out be the Beechwood cemetery -
" Edwin Peter Day born in Hull , Quebec on April 21 1864 . E P Day followed in his father's footsteps operating one of the country's leading boat works. His plant at the Canal Basin, specialized in racing canoes which competed in many championship regattas. But Dey was best known as an arena and hockey team owner. After managing the first Dey's Skating Rink on the premises of their boat business, E P and his brother William in 1896 built the city's first rink meant specifically for hockey, at the corner of Bay St. and Gladstone Ave. It was the site of Ottawa's first Stanley Cup victory in 1903. In 1907 the brothers built their third and final arena on Laurier Ave. where the Ottawa Senators played for 15 years. Dey held a financial interest in the Senators for several years and was the team's president from 1918 until 1923 when he got out of the rink and hockey business. He and his wife moved to New York City and later relocated to British Columbia. Ottawa's first hockey magnate died in Port Coquitlam on April 15 1943."
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The name Beatrice was given to their daughter and the name Beatrice was given to a daughter of Annie Elisabeth's daughter leading me to believe Beatrice might be the name of either Joseph's or Annie's mother more verification will have to be done on this .
Elizabeth Dey and William Scoular
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
1855-1936 |
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1894-1897 |
1894-1983 |
William Scoular was a Master Stone Manson he arrived in Canada from Scotland in 1880
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William is shown here at the laying of the cornerstone of the Canadain Parliment Buildings, Ottawa, Ont
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Scoular -- At her daughter's residence, Longueuil , P Q , on August 29, 1943, Annie Elizabeth Dey, beloved wife of the late William Greig Scoular, in her 89th year. Funeral from the Chapel of Jos C Wray Y Bros 1234 Mountain St at 3 p.m. on Wednesday September 1st to Mount Royal Cemetery
William, Elizabeth and Lillian are buried in the MountRoyal cemetery in Cote des Neiges Montreal|
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23 Apr 1921 Ottawa , Canada |
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The Urquhart family lived in Montreal South ( Longueuil), during the same 10 years that her cousin Ella Isabel (Laing) Macfie lived in St Lambert . Isabel Laing had been named after this cousin ( The St Lambert residence a short tramway ride away)
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1860-1943 |
March 6th,1882 Ottawa , Ont. |
1863-1950 |
Edgar Ernest Dey 1883-1912 |
Lillian Dey 1884-1943 |
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Edgar Dey, who played for the NHA Haileybury team of 1911 with which he was featured on some of the earliest trading cards, died as the result of an altercation in a game in Halifax. Seems he took a good hit to the head, and after a couple of days decided to check into hospital. It was too late. He was the son of Edgar Dey Sr., one of the brothers who co-owned Dey's Arena in Ottawa where the Senators played. |
Carleton Co) Edgar Frank Dey, 21, boat builder, Canada , Ottawa, s/o Joseph & Annie Dey, married Mary Jane Brown, 19, Canada, Ottawa, d/o James & Ann Brown. Wit: Ann McEwen and Edwin R Dey, both of Ottawa, March 6, 1882, at Ottawa
Frank Edgar Dey
Dies at Age of 83 (Ottawa paper 1943)
Ottawa lost one of its outstanding citizens yesterday in the death of Frank Edgar Dey, 83, at his residence 387 Riverdale avenue. Mr. Dey is well remembered in connection with Dey's Arena, which served as a sports center of Ottawa until it was torn down to fit in with the Federal District Commission's parkway plan.
A well known builder of boats, he once had a boat building factory on the shores of Patterson's creek. He was noted for his skill in building racing canoes and shells. A former professional paddler in his younger days, he won many races and was well known in the aquatic clubs around Ottawa. He built the canoe which saw Frank Amyot bring home the Olympic row in 1936.
During the last war Mr. Dey was superintendent of the great shipbuilding program at Vancouver. He retired from active business life in 1918.
The son of the late Joseph Dey and the former Annie Buckley, he was educated in Ottawa and married the former Mary J Brown in 1882. She survives.
Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs William Scoular of Montreal and Mrs. Robert Laing of Westboro, and one granddaughter Miss Shirley Armstrong of Toronto. A son Edgar Ernest Dey, died in 1912 and a daughter Mrs. Allan Armstrong, died on March 7 last.
Rev Charles Donald of Southminister United Church will conduct the funeral service in the chapel of Hulse and Playfair, 315 McLeod St., on Saturday afternoon at three o'clock. Internment will be in Beechwood cemetery.
Mayor Lewis - Present at Frank Dey Funeral (Ottawa Paper 1943 )
Last of the Dey Brothers - (Ottawa paper 1943)
Lillian Dey 1884-1943 |
Married Ottawa , Ont |
Allan Haskett Armstrong xxxx-1969 |
Lillian Dorothy Shirley Armstrong |
According to Jessie Smith's notes Lillian was a music teacher and Alan was lawyer
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Lillian Dorothy Shirley Armstrong 1916-1943 |
Married Ont |
Donald Haldane Carkner 1915-1993 |
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Ronald Earl Carkner |
Additional information courtesy of Ronald Carkner ( 2009)
Lillian about 5 |
Lillian about 16 |
Lillian 1973 |
Ronald Earl Carkner 1947-xxxx |
Married Ont |
Margaret Louise 1948-xxxx |
Robert Lee Carkner |
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Late Edwin Peter "Ted" Dey
Once Owned Famous Senators
Edwin Peter "Ted" Dey , former owner and operator of Dey's Arena on Laurier Ave. West, near the ridge, died suddenly yesterday in New Westminster BC. He Was 78
The Arena has since disappeared , but followers of hockey recall that under its roof the old Ottawa Senators teams rose to prominence in the early 20's and under the guidance of Mr. Ted Dey and Tommy Gorman they won the Stanley Cup on several occasions.
In addition to the main rink, Mr. Dey operated two others, one on Laurier Ave.on the east side of the canal and the other on Gladstone Ave. His brother William Dey, associated with him in the rink business, died in 1921.
Born in Hull, on April 21 1864, Mr. Dey spent the early part of his life in the Ottawa area, developing a keen interest in sports during his youth. He was part owner and manager of the Ottawa hockey teams for years, finally severing his connections with sports here about 1923 when his interest was bought out by T F Ahearn.
He made three trips to the coast with Ottawa professional hockey teams. He went west in the spring of 1919 when the Senators played an exhibition series in Vancouver and Victoria.
His second trip was in 1921 when he was president of the local club. That year the Ottawa team beat Vancouver to win the Stanley Cup. On the team were : Clint Benedict, Sprague Cleghorn, George "Buck" Boucher, the late Eddie Gerard, the late Jack Darragh, Frank Nighbor, Harry "Punch" Broadbent, who is now a RCAF officer, "CY" Denneny, Jack MacKell and Morley Bruce. Horace Merrill was also on the team but did not make the trip to the coast.
In the spring of 1923, Mr. Dey again accompanied the team to the coast. The Senators trimmed Vancouver and then defeated Edmonton to take the Stanley Cup. On the team were Benedict, Boucher, Nighbor, Denneny, Broadbent, Frank "King" Clancy, Lionel Hitchman and Harry Helman.
After he left Ottawa Mr. Dey lived in New York for several years, then went to the West coast in 1932.
In the early part of the century and down to the glamorous '20's when Ottawa teams dominated the professional hockey stage, the name of Ted Dey was a byword in every Ottawa home where there were hockey followers.
As owner of the famous arena on Laurier Ave where the famous Senators played, he was a well known figure in the winter months as the chief executive of the company which controlled Dey's Arena and also as part owner of the Ottawa Hockey Club.
But it was not only in hockey that Dey's name was well known to sports fans, particularly those who took part in aquatics. He was one of the best known boat builders in Canada and his racing canoes competed in all the leading championship regattas staged by the Canadian and American Canoe Associations for many years.
He took particular pride in small boats such as singles and fours and was an expert judge of all types of racing canoes, while his war canoes were known for their sturdiness and local paddlers always insisted on boats fashioned by the veteran Ted whenever they entered into major competition.
He was a regular attendant at all championship meets of the Northern Division and the C.C.A. and his passing will cause keen regret among old time paddling enthusiasts.
Surviving are is wife, the former Edith Fairbanks Hunt, in the United States; two sisters, Mrs. Robert S Laing of Westboro and Mrs. William Scoular in Montreal ; and one brother Frank Dey of Ottawa, a retired boat builder.
One of the first cars in Ottawa - owned by Ted Dey
Walked the Dressing Room Floor by Jack Koffman
TED DEY , Founder of Old Arena , Dies at New Westminster
DEY - On Thursday April 15 1943 at new Westminister B.C. , Edwin Peter ( Ted) Dey in his 79th year, formerly of Ottawa, husband of Edith Fairbanks Hunt.
Body of E P 'TED' Dey is Cremated
The body of Edwin P ( Ted) Dey, one of the best known figures in the hockey world for two generations was creamated following his death recently in New Westminster, and the ashes sent to Ottawa where they were interred in the family plot with Mrs. Dey's parents the late Mr and Mrs E E Hunt . Due to ill health and war conditions , Mrs Dey , formerly Edith Fairbanks Hunt of Ottawa and now of Pasadena California was unable to be present at the ceremony in Beechwood Chapel on Saturday morning. Ven Archdeacon Turley officiated at the service which was strictly private with only the immediate family and a few intimate freinds attending.
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Mary (Churchill) 1877-1938
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Percival Dey |
Victor Vernon Dey |
Hazel Gladys Dey |
Pearl Alexandria Dey |
Ruby Edwina Dey |
Doris Iliene Dey |
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Percival Dey |
Married Ottawa , Ont |
Ellen May Unknown 1898-1987
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William Ernest Dey |
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William Ernest Dey |
Married Ottawa , Ont |
Miss Unknown
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Gordon Dey xxxx-xxxx |
Married Ottawa , Ont |
Miss Unknown xxxx-xxxx |
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Hazel Gladys Dey |
Married September 27 , 1924 Ottawa , Ont |
George Edward Crawford 1897-1980 |
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Norma Crawford xxxx-xxxx |
Frances Charlotte Crawford 1930-1977 |
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Crawford-Dey
On Saturday September 27, 1924 at the Church of the Ascension, by Rev J E Lindsay , Hazel Gladys daughter of Mrs W E Dey and the late Mr Dey to George Edward, son of the late A B Crawford and Mrs Frances Crawford, of Ottawa
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Norma Crawford xxxx-xxxx |
Married Ottawa , Ont |
Trevor Kew xxxx-xxxx |
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Dois Iliene Dey |
Married Ottawa , Ont |
Samuel Spence 1904-1997 |
V June Spence
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Wincell Ernest Spence
1949-xxxx
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According to Jessie Smith's notes Vernon, or perhaps his son in or was a school teacher in a more advance position in the school system. In 2007 it has been determined that Wincell , Vernon's brother was the school teacher to whom Jessie was referring. Wincell began his teaching profession in the Ottawa area. He was with the Carleton Board of education, retiring from his long carrer as Vice Principal of the Sir Guy Carleton Secondary School.font>
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Beatrice Dey | Robert Laing |
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1900 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
1878-1955 |
1903-1985 |
1911-2008 |
1915-1991 |
1917-2011 |
The 1901 Canada census shows Beatrice and her husband Robert S Laing, living with her parents Joseph and Annie Dey and her brother Edwin who was at the time 32 years old.
May Maud Beatrice Katherine Laing was born at 539 Lyon St., Ottawa Ont
Jessie Marion Laing was born at 204 Florence St., Ottawa, Ont.
James Hugh Laing was born at 3 River St , Westboro , Ont.
Ella Isabel Laing was born at 3 River St, Westboro, Ont
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Isabel Laing Macfie posing at the memorial site of her Uncle's the Dey brother's, Gladstone Arena accompanied by her two grandsons Shawn and Mike Loucks,both well known hockey players of the Nepean Ottawa area
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