Claire Yale

[9] In 1924, she was aboard the RMS Andania of the Cunard Line for a sailing trip from Halifax to Quebec City, and then to France and Italy.

[10][11][12] Notable guests included Sir Francis Alexander Macnaghten, General Frank S. Meighen of the 87th Battalion, cofounder of the Opera de Montreal, Col. Ogilvie of Ogilvy & Sons, Lt. Col. K. C. Laurie, son of General John W. Laurie, and a few members of the Henry Morgan & Company, seated at the Henry Morgan Building.

[10][13] Yale became a member of the Circle of Epicurans along with the Marquise de Ruzé d'Effiat, Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau and actress Nicole Germain.

[19][20] Among the 55 members were Senator Thomas Vien, Secretary Hector Perrier, Rector Mgr Olivier Maurault and number of doctors.

[20] In 1960, she was among the guests invited by the Women Chamber of Commerce of Montreal for a dinner with the past First Lady of the United States, Eleanor D. Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D.

[2] She also cofounded a real estate investment company with her cousins, lawyer Alfred Cinq-mars of Outremont and entrepreneur Wilfrid Yale of Mount-Royal, named the Compagnie des Terrains Champlain Lté.

[25] She is the namesake of the Claire-Yale award, given by the Société d’Histoire Régionale of Deux-Montagnes, a society she also founded, and which was presided by politician Pierre de Bellefeuille.

[29] Yale died on December 16, 1997, at Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, and was buried at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.

Portrait of Claire Yale, from the Sentier Ecologique Claire Yale, named in her honor in St-Eustache
Mrs. Yale's home on the Yale Islands , the past mansion of her father was burned down in the 1950s
Windsor Hotel , Montreal, Canada, around 1891, was Canada's first grand hotel at the time
The historical building saved by Claire Yale, used now as St-Eustache's City Hall
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery , Montreal, where Claire Yale was buried along with her father, Arthur Yale