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July 13, 2009

Air Canada offers flight for remains of woman left in London

Isn't it amazing what people will do to help? When this story first came out I thought poor Gladys would never come home. I was wrong! Read the story from

THE CANADIAN PRESS

FREDERICTON – The incredible tale of the unclaimed remains of a Canadian woman at a London cemetery, and efforts to send her home after almost a century, has caught the interest of a major airline.

Barry Smith of The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery says Air Canada has offered a free flight to ship the coffin from London to Halifax.

Gladys Winifred Fowler was 18 when she died in April 1917.

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