Gertie Feuz

Biography

Gertie Feuz Marrs was born in Switzerland in 1910 and came with her family to Canada in 1912. Gertie’s father was Edward Feuz, one of the original Swiss Guides brought to Canada by the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The family occupied the house that, in the most recent years, is known as Walter Feuz’s house for two or three years, but when Gertie started school, the family moved off Edelweiss Hill to take residence in their own place, where the Brookside Motel is today.

Gertie and other children in that area had to walk to school during a time when plows were nearly unheard of. Gertie attended Lady Grey School, and when she had completed high school, she went to Vancouver to Business College....