| Sarah Patenaude-Bruyere | |
 Sarah Patenaude Bruyere on her 105th birthday in 2012 | |
| Birth: | 20 February 1907 Russell, Ontario, Canada |
| Death: | 17 February 2020 Gatineau, Quebec, Canada |
| Age: | 112 years, 362 days |
| Country: |  CAN
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| Validated | |
Sarah Patenaude Bruyere (20 February 1907 – 17 February 2020) was a Canadian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Canada.
Biography
Sarah Patenaude was born in Russell, Ontario, Canada on 20 February 1907 to parents Joseph and Marie-Louise (née Gebault) Patenaude. She moved to Embrun, Ontario and began teaching in the village's one-room school.
In 1929, Bruyere married Prosper Bruyere in Embrun, Ontario, and had seven children with him: Raymond, Roger, Marcel, Jean-Guy, Bernard, Eleonore and Marie. Raymond died on 24 April 2017, aged 80.
At some point in her life, Bruyere moved to Gatineau, Quebec. At her 105th birthday celebration in 2012, when asked what her secret to a long life was, she replied that she didn't know, but both of her parents lived long lives. Her father lived to be 88, her mother to 81. Sarah also drank a glass of prune juice every two days.
Bruyere became the oldest known living person in Canada following the death of 114-year old Ellen Gibb on 5 June 2019. Bruyere died at the Monastere d’Aylmer retirement home in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on 17 February 2020 at the age of 112 years, 362 days. The cause of death was pneumonia. After her death, Phyllis Ridgway became the oldest living person in Canada.
References
- Gatineau woman celebrates 105th birthday CBC News
- Grandniece confirms Ms. Bruyere is alive at 110 Facebook
- Joyeux 112e anniversaire de naissance Mme Sarah Patenaude Bruyère Le Droit, February 2019 (Press Reader)
- Adieu Mme Patenaude-Bruyère Le Droit, February 2020 (Press Reader)
| Canada's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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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 |