| Sam Baker | |
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| Birth: | 19 December 1903 Russian Empire (now Poland) |
| Death: | 5 August 2013 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Age: | 109 years, 229 days |
| Country: |  POL CAN
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| Centenarian | |
Sam Baker (19 December 1903 – 5 August 2013) was a Polish-Canadian centenarian who was the oldest living man in Canada at the time of his death.
Biography[]
Samuel Baker was born on 19 December 1903. He is the oldest person in history known to have been born aboard a ship. He lived to 109. He was born aboard a ship which sailed from Poland to Canada on 19 December 1903. He started using a walker since he was 108 and had hearing problems.
Baker married Joan in 1940, and had three children (a son named Steven and two daughters). His son credits his longevity to him walking a lot. He used to walk one mile per day until he developed back problems in his 90s.
Sam Baker died on 5 August 2013, and his successor for the title of the oldest living man in Canada was thought to be an anonymous man from Saskatchewan born on 12 April 1904, but there are no known sources for this claim, so the title may have instead gone to 108-year-old Joseph Ernest Poupart. At the time of his death, Baker was also the oldest Jewish person in Winnipeg.
References[]
- Manitoba's oldest person dies at 109 CBC News, 7 Aug 2013 ("came to Winnipeg from Poland in 1905")
- Oldest Manitoban dies at 109 Winnipeg Free Press, 7 Aug 2013
- Winnipeg’s oldest Jewish resident, 109, still gets out The Canadian Jewish News (CJN), 23 Nov 2012
- Canada Census, 1916 ("Birthplace Russia")
| Canada's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E) |
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Joseph Saint-Amour • Unknown • Eli Lindsay • Stuart Bott • Unknown • Adam McDonald • Arthur Critchfield • Adalbert Marchand • Herman Smith-Johannsen • William Hargest • Philo McCandless • George Ives • Chester Pushie • Arthur Nash • Tokusuke Oyakawa • Gustav Wikberg • Theodore Remfert • James Grant • Romeo Tremblay • Raphael Cree • John Gard • Montague Little • Lazare Gionet • Nicholas Salamis • Harold Dunichand • Ernest MacPherson • William Thomas • Leon Robitaille • Johannes Markusson • David Wiener • Sam Baker • Joseph Ernest Poupart • Zoltan Sarosy • Robert Wiener • Ja Hyung Lee • Reuben Sinclair • Albert Middleton |