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Flore Beland

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Flore Beland
Flore Beland
Birth: 6 September 1872
Notre-Dame-De-Levis, Quebec, Canada
Death: 18 February 1983
Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Age: 110 years, 165 days
Country: CanadaCAN
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Florida "Flore" Beland [French: Béland] (née Bellerive dit Couture; 6 September 1872 – 18 February 1983) was a Canadian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Flore Beland was born as Florida "Flore" Bellerive (Couture-Bellerive) in Notre-Dame-De-Levis, Quebec, Canada on 6 September 1872. Her parents were Narcisse (Dit Bellerive) Couture and Louise (Marie Louise) (Denys Dit Lapierre) Denys. She married François Beland on 1 September 1891.

Her daughter-in-law, Aurore Lefebvre (Paul Beland), died on 22 September 1978 at the age of 71.

Beland died in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada on 18 February 1983 at the age of 110 years 165 days. At the time of her death she was oldest living woman in Canada. After her death, Emma Bingham became oldest living woman in Canada.

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Canada's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Hannah Bradford • Flore Beland • Ellen Delaney • Emma Bingham • Herman Smith-Johannsen • Agnes Munce • Nellie Thompson • Alice Sjoquist • Lillian Ross • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Marie-Louise Meunier • Maria Mallozzi • Zelda McCague • Fanny Martland • Evangeline Saulnier • Anne Samson • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Jennie Fitzgerald • Margaret Fitzgerald • Pearl Lutzko • Cora Hansen • Yvonne Lamoureux • Merle Barwis • Colombe Benoit-Leclerc • Orma Slack • Marguerite Wabano • Lilian Cornell • Ellen Gibb • Sarah Patenaude-Bruyere • Phyllis Ridgway • Cecile Klein • Shige Mineshiba • Mabel Mah • Helen Doan • Gertruda Gorecka • Hazel Skuce • Margaret Romans • Burdett Sisler

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