Gladys Mary Mable Laverty (née Irwin) (June 29, 1919 — Feb 25, 2021)

Gladys Irwin was born on June 29, 1919, and grew up on the family farm near Kleinburg, Ontario. Gladys’s love affair with Kahshe Lake started when she was six years old and came to Kahshe to visit John and Berta Wilkie, her uncle and aunt, on the east side of the channel going into Houseys Rapid Bay. 

On June 20, 1942, she married Allan Laverty and they spent their honeymoon at the Wilkie cottage. They lived on a potato farm near Honeywwod, Ontario. In 1956, Allan and Gladys and their five children bought and built a cottage in Houseys Rapids Bay which they named “The 7Ls.”  Their oldest child, Glenn, and his family still cottage there. Gladys started journaling every day she spent at her beloved lake, referring to Kahshe as she would refer to a very close friend.  Gladys and Allan loved entertaining their many friends and nieces and nephews at the lake. 

Some of the cottagers across the lake thought that they ran a children’s camp; but no, just friends and family. In 1972, along with three other couples, they purchased a place across the bay which they named “Point 4 Estates.” They renovated and winterized their place and moved up from Nobleton in 1975. Allan and Gladys were avid snowmobilers. Even after Allan passed away, Gladys was often found taking her grandchildren “out for a run.”  She snowmobiled with her friends, Elaine Duncan and Flo and Jo Hrabi, until she was in her 84th year. Gladys’s love for Kahshe was inherited by all her children four of whom still have places on the lake. Gladys passed away on February 25, 2021, in her 102nd year.