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- The name of Doris M Rogers is given in the index to their marriage record on FindMyPast.com
newspaper - Ottawa Journal (ON) - 12 Jul 1946, p 22
An English war bride, six weeks in Canada, was saved from drowning in Dow's Lake at 9.30 last night, by 18-year-old v Donald Brownrigg, 167 Arthur street. Mother of two small children, Mrs. Margaret Felteau, 26, 811 Gladstone avenue, was pulled from the water by young Brownrigg when she sank for the third time 25 yards from a log boom extending from the CPR railway bridge at the west end of the lake and some 75 yards from shore. ...
Mrs. Felteau had been swimming with her husband, young Brownrigg and some friends off the boom running into the lake from the west shore, when she complained of not feeling well.
She told Brownrigg she had a headache and was feeling dizzy. She thought she had-better swim to shore - a distance of 100 yards.
"I told her if she was not feeling well not to try it," Brownrigg told The Journal last night.
He said Mr. Felteau was some distance down the boom and other members of the party had gone to shore.
Brownrigg called to a man passing in s a canoe ' asked him to take Mrs. Felteau to shore. "He thought I was just kidding. He laughed and kept on going. When I turned around, she was already in the water and swimming for shore."
Some 29 yards from the log boom, Mrs. Felteau suddenly sank.
Still some yards down the boom, there was no time to attract Mr. Felteau's attention. Brownrigg immediately dived and swam for the spot where the woman, obviously in difficulty, was floundering.
A "fair" swimmer, he thought Mrs. Felteau might be able to stay up until he reached her.
"She had gone down twice before I got there. When I get to her, I could see her going down for the third time. I reached out and managed to get held of her arm.".
It was then, as Mrs. Felteau began to struggle, endangering the life of both herself and her rescurer, that young Brownrigg struck her sharply on the jaw. Immediately her struggles ceased.
With his hand under the woman's chin and swimming on his back, the youth managed to cover the 29 yards back to the boom with the woman.
"It was a long pull. I was already tired when I reached her, as I was swimming about as fast as I could. For a while I thought I might nor make it."
Reaching the boom, Brownrigg was assisted by Mr. Felteau, who had now become aware of what was going on.
Two. unidentified youths approached In a canoe, and Mrs. Felteau, who appeared to be unconscious' was taken to shore, where artificial respiration was applied by one of the youths and onlookers in the, crowd who had seen the .dramatic rescue.
Regaining consciousness, Mrs. Felteau was taken to Ottawa Civic Hospital by her husband and Brownrigg, where she was treated for shock and a bruise on her chin where the youth had been forced to strike her. She was then allowed to go home.
Speaking to The Journal at their home last night when 10-months-old Virginia, and Dawn, two-and-a-half .years, had been put to bed, Mr. and Mrs. Felteau had high appreciation for the quick action of the rescuer. "If It hadn't been for him, I mightn't be here right now", Mrs. Felteau said.
Owing to quick action by the youth, Mrs. Felteau was already on her way to hospital when the Fire Department emergency car and Constables John McCulloch and E. Pollex arrived at the scene.
newspaper article - The Ottawa Citizen (ON) - 14 Apr 1951, p 3
"Here In one English war bride proud and very proud to be living in Canada among Canadians."
This Is the glowing tribute paid us by Mrs. Margaret Felteau, who, with her Canadian soldier husband, has had more than her share of adverse times. Writing from Quarries Post Office, which Is on the Montreal Road just beyond Eastview, Mrs. Felteau's letter Is a document of faith and hope in Canada, against a background of Job-like troubles.
"I would like to tell you," she writes, "a story ...
"Five years ago I arrived in Canada, full of hope for the future. The first year nothing happened but in 1947 Mrs. Susan Landry, an old friend of mine, found me a place to live at the Quarries. By this time I was ready to turn around and take the ftrst boat home but It was a good thing we remained. It is now four years that we have lived in this locality, and how much we have learned. During this time I have been a patient in the Civic Hospital 13 times. Three of our children were patients there and then last July my husband collapsed and was admitted with tuberculosis.
People Are Wonderful
"It was then that we realized how wonderful people really are. At this same time we discovered that a new arrival would be here In January. Believe me, with four children already, and an Income almost nil, I thought the end of the earth had arrived.
"Then things happened. A neighbor gave a a house, rent free. People that I had never seen before, arrived with warm winter clothes for the new baby and other children. When things were really bad something always turned up. Mr. Cross, these people at the Quarries and I mean every one of them are the finest in the world. I mention especially Mrs. Alfred Barbe. Both she and her husband have treated me like a daughter and my children as their own.
"When the new baby arrived in January the neighbors gave rne a shower and when it was tlme for me to go to the hospital they looked after by children well.
"I want to say: Thank You! these people. I want to say Thank You, Canada for having such wonderful citizens. And a Special Thank You to you wonderful people at the Quarries, for it Is you who make life worth while and people like you who will continue to make it a finer place to live.''
Mrs. Felteau also thanked the civic Hospital doctors and staff.
"They are a credit to this country" she said. She said that she felt "the only fitting way" to thank those who have befriended her was in a letter, and she felt It would reach the people she wanted to reach, through Cross Town.
Concluding, she said: "Believe me, we are going to remain here in Canada and hope that some day we can repay these kindnesses. Somehow, when my husband comes home we are going to try to raise and hope to own, a chicken farm, although it will mean starting from scratch, with all the faith we have, to make it. Anyway we will write and let you know, maybe, when fortune shines on us and we are made.
"Here's one English war bride proud, and very proud, to be living in Canada among Canadians. Your faithfully, Margaret Felteau."
Personal Biography [https://pier21.ca/walls/Honour/Margaret-Felteau]
[Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21]
I spent the whole voyage from Liverpool to Halifax in the ship's hospital with pneumonia, while my two daughters were looked after by the wonderful staff. Arriving in Ottawa as a war bride, it didn't take long for me to realise that I had married an alcoholic. However, with no alternative but to keep going, I managed to raise six wonderful children, three girls and three boys, and survived twenty seven difficult years before my husband eventually died.
I now have eighteen grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. I remarried and my husband and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary on January 4, 2003. I love this country dearly (don't always like the politicians!) and have few regrets. Somehow, I have always believed that if one works hard, (I was a nurse), and lives the way our parents taught us, the Good Lord guides and takes care of us. It certainly worked for me.
My husband took this picture of me, with daughters Dawn and Virginia on Mothers Day, May 12, 2002.
Margaret Mew (Felteau)
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Burial Registry Summary «for this Margaret?»
https://www.deceasedonline.com/servlet/GSDOSearch?DetsView=Summary&src=ext&fileid=10602807
Rogers, Doris Margaret; burial date 26 Jun 1978 at Southwark
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Doris M - Margaret Rogers[1]
1919 - Yes, date unknown
Has no ancestors but 18 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
Bernard Trevor Felteau, b. 7 Mar 1920, Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 
David Felteau
![Felteau, Bernard + [Margaret] Rogers - Marriage, Brighton, England - Oct, Nov, Dec 1943](documents/9m.png)