Author: Joyce Beaton

Date of birth: September 22, 1932
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Born in Mimico, Ontario to Marjorie Slack and Clarence (Pete) Dadson, the first child of six.
Raised in Port Credit, attended Forest Avenue Public School and Port Credit High School, graduating 1951.
Trained in radio acting and working for Stovin and Company, radio reps, until marriage in 1952.
Married James Leslie Beaton, childhood sweetheart 1953, birthed six children, two of whom died in childhood of Sandhoff Disease, a derivitive of Tay Saks. Raised four sons, Peter, Douglas, James, Lorne to adulthood. Divorced in 1980.
Managed STOP (Society to Overcome Pollution) office in Montreal 1969-1973
Wrote for the Canadian Champion, Milton, Ont. 1973-1975
Co-owned publishing company Goldenglow Publications. Published Early Canadian Life, a social history magazine 1976-1980
Taught Women's Studies at Sheridan College, Oakville and Brampton campuses
Director of Public Relations, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, 1980-1984; Queensway General Hospital, 1984-1986; Toronto East General Hospital 1986-1988; Director of Huntsville Hospital Foundation, and Public Relation 1988-1994. President of HCPRA (Health Care Public Relations Association, Canada) Life Member of HCPRA. Retired 1994 to Lake of Bays, Muskoka, Ontario. Continues to write family history and maintains the family tree.
Married in 2000 in Hungary to John Bihari, who immigrated to Canada in 1957. Became mother to his sons Andrew, Paul, James and Steven. Together they have 13 grandchildren.
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