Downstream

from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m., so
maybe a bit late for a
mother?’ suggests Jill.
But she continued her
swimming career, and in the
mid-1920s, now the mother
of five children, she entered
the annual Canadian National
Exhibition swims in Lake
Ontario which Jill describes
as ‘quite a gruelling swim.
Granny did continue to have
an amazing life. She taught
swimming, ran a dance studio