Aida Maud Boyer McAnn Flemming, CM (7 March 1896 – 25 January 1994) was a Canadian teacher, writer and animal welfare advocate.
[1] After practising law in Moncton, New Brunswick, he moved to Kaslo, British Columbia, with his wife, the former Ada Boyer.
She died three months after their daughter Aida was born at the Boyer family home in Victoria Corner, New Brunswick, on 7 March 1896.
Charles Whitfield McAnn was a successful lawyer who became a Queen's Counsel and was the mayor of Kaslo when he died in 1907 at the age of 42.
She organized a local branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society in order to secure the services of a visiting nurse for the isolated community, and established a public library in the school.
By the late 1960s she regularly received up to 50 letters a day from club members, which she answered on her own until the organization hired a secretary to help with the correspondence in 1973.
She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 1978 for "her many services to the community of Fredericton and the founding of the Kindness Club, an organization dedicated to the protection of animals, which now has branches in twenty-two countries".
[13] Alden Nowlan's "A poem for Aida Flemming", which was published in 1982, begins: May God have mercy on the porcupine broken free but with the snare still around his neck the end of it still trailing behind him and bound to catch on something.
[13] In the 1960s she had purchased a large rural property near Woodstock, New Brunswick, formerly owned by Tappan Adney with the intention of establishing a wildlife sanctuary.