| Shige Mineshiba | |
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| Birth: | 18 May 1909 Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
| Death: | 6 January 2023 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Age: | 113 years, 233 days |
| Country: |  JPN CAN
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| Unvalidated | |
Shige Mineshiba (Japanese: 峯柴志げ; 18 May 1909 – 6 January 2023) was a Japanese-born Canadian supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Canada.
Biography[]
Mineshiba was born in Toda, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on 18 May 1909. After graduating from the Sakuraka High School in Nagoya, she met and married Ichiro Mineshiba in February 1931. Her two sisters lived to be 109 and 104 respectively. At the time of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, Mineshiba went to Nagoya Station to cook for the victims who fled from Tokyo. In 1941, she and her husband adopted a 6-month-old daughter Kyoko Mineshiba. Before World War II, her husband ran a senbei shop in Kyoto, but after the war he worked at welfare facilities, insurance companies, banks and flower shops. In 1968 or 1969, she moved to Toronto, Canada with her husband Ichiro at the age of 60. Her only daughter, Kyoko, already lived in Toronto at that time.
Mineshiba worked as a babysitter until 1979, when she moved to Vancouver. Her husband died in 1985 at the age of 85. At the age of 87, she had a myocardial infarction and had surgery. She has suffered from dementia since the age of 100. As of 2013, Mineshiba lived with her daughter, Kyoko (72 years old at that time). Mineshiba celebrated her 110th birthday in May 2019 and received a birthday card from the Governor General of Canada, Julie Payette. She also received a birthday card from Queen Elizabeth II.
Following the death of Cecile Klein on 13 January 2022, Mineshiba became the oldest known living person in Canada. She became the last known person living in Canada born in the 1900's decade, following the death of Yvonne Delorme-Martel on 7 April 2022.
Mineshiba died in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 6 January 2023 at the age of 113 years, 233 days.
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References[]
- 峯柴志げさん Vancouver Shinpo, May 2013
- 峯柴しげさん 108歳に Vancouver Shinpo, 1 June 2017
- 新報インタビュー 明治、大正、昭和、平成、令和へ 五つの時代を歩み110歳の誕生日を迎えた峯柴志げ（みねしばしげ）さん Vancouver Shinpo, 30 May 2019
- もうすぐ111歳 バンクーバーの峯柴志げさん Vancouver Shinpo, 30 April 2020
- カナダで3番目の高齢者、112歳の誕生日を迎えた峯柴志げさん Vancouver Shinpo, 20 May 2021
- カナダ最高齢の峯柴志げさん、113歳に Vancouver Shinpo, 18 May 2022
- Death notice Vancouver Shinpo, Twitter, 8 January 2023
- At 113, one of Canada's oldest people has died in her Vancouver home CBC News, 12 January 2023
| Canada's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Flore Beland • 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 |