Boutiliers Point, NS October 25, 2024
We are sad to announce that Anne died on October 25, 2025, the day after she and her family celebrated her 82 birthday.
Anne was born in Dartmouth, NS and raised in Tangier, NS until moving to Halifax in1956.
She was pre deceased by her young son Stephen John and her husband John Archie, brother Peter and sister Ruth. She is survived by her sister Mary (Tanton) Stone, brother-in-law John, sister-in-law Lesley Tanton and many nieces and nephews, and grand nieces and nephews.
After graduating from MacDonald College (McGill University) with a BSc in Home Economics, she and Arch spent their working lives in and around London, Ontario where she kept connected with her many good friends from ‘Mac’. Anne thrived in the business world, first as a home economist with Union Gas, then as a restaurant owner and then as the owner/operator of the very successful Little Red Roaster coffee shop in Wortley Village, London.
After retiring from the coffee business in 2003 Anne and Arch moved back to Nova Scotia to be near their families. Within a year they had built a house in Boutiliers Point on St. Margaret’s Bay.
Anne and Arch continued in their entrepreneurial ways, buying the Bay Hammock Company and setting up a catering business with Anne’s sister-in-law Lesley.
Anne was an independent, intelligent, creative, community-minded person. Throughout her life she had an eye for supporting and enhancing events in the communities in which she lived. One of her major achievements was helping to establish the Peggys Cove and Area Festival of the Arts, which began as a plein air event and has grown to be a major summer destination in the St Margarets Bay Area.
Anne and Arch loved to travel. In 2012, they bought an RV, pulled up stakes, and spent 3 years travelling around North America. Returning to live in Halifax, Anne quickly joined a community book club, a coffee shop group, a community garden project, volunteered at Prescott Group and took up water colour painting, forming long-lasting friendships along the way. Always adventurous and despite knee and hip issues, one summer Anne undertook to successfully walk the Nova Scotia Camino Trail.
A lifelong learner, Anne’s last major volunteer effort was to work with SCANS, Seniors College Association of Nova Scotia, where in time she assumed the leadership role of President. After Arch’s death in 2017, Anne moved back to Boutiliers Point, where she beautifully enhanced her little cottage and continued her water colour painting. Anne was a creative cook and she enriched many a family supper and dinner party with her delicious and often unique recipes. To this end, her last accomplishment was a treasured hand crafted book of her favourite recipes for her family and friends, with each page illustrated with her own watercolours.
True to her nature, Anne dealt realistically and purposefully with a cancer diagnosis and never lost her sense of humour. Throughout her stay in the Palliative Unit at the VGH, Anne had excellent care for which we are all very thankful.
A reception in Anne’s memory will be held at St James’ Anglican Church, Boutiliers Point, Sunday, Dec 8, 2:00-4:00 pm.
If you wish to acknowledge Anne’s life, please make a donation to the St Margaret’s Bay Food Bank, https://smbfoodbank.wordpress.com/thrift-store/ , The Marguerite Centre, https://themargueritecentre.com/ or the Anglican Parish of French Village Outreach Projects, treasurer@parishoffrenchvillage.ca
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