Hi, I was researching my great-grandfather Philip Ilsley and came across this post. His eldest daughter (my grandmother) Elizabeth, passed away in November of 2014 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She was 94. I love hearing mom's stories about our pool-building great-grandfather, it sounds like he lived quite a life. Mom has a lot of old articles about him.
I guess that makes you my great aunt! I live in Vancouver, BC, now.