Community activist.
Born at Winnipeg on 9 June 1929, daughter of Charlotte Blanche Dutton (1906-2001) and Philip Pierce Halls (1906-1988), granddaughter of Frank Ernest Halls, she graduated from the Riverbend School in 1946 and the Faculty of Interior Design at the University of Manitoba in 1950. On 16 September 1950, she married architect Douglas John Cannell and they subsequently had two daughters and a son.
Their work at excavating the forgotten city of Rio Azul, Guatemala was featured in the National Geographic. She was a fashion editor for the Winnipeg Tribune, fashion model, tarot card reader, and active member of the Junior League of Winnipeg. She served as Chair of the Manitoba Film Classification Board, President of the Progressive Conservative Winnipeg South Constituency Association, and a member of the Manitoba Arts Council (c1960).
She died at Winnipeg on 3 September 2015.
Obituary [Philip Pierce Halls], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 June 1988, page 30.
Obituary [Charlotte Blanche Halls], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 February 2001.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 September 2015.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 February 2024
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