Raising a Family on Glenlake Avenue
Freda Johnston Dreany raised her family on Glenlake Avenue. Lois Broad remembers how her sister managed on her own in the mid-1940s, while working full-time as chief fashion artist for Eaton's.
In the mid-1940s, Freda Johnston Dreany had to cope on her own in a rented house at 38 Glenlake Ave. with two young children, a full-time job and no help. Her husband, Joe Dreany, had gone to the United States to further his career as an illustrator. Freda worked at home as chief artist for the T. Eaton Co., sketching the fashions that appeared in the company’s ads. Lois Broad, Freda’s youngest sister, describes how her sister managed to cope.
38 Glenlake Avenue, the home of Freda Johnston Dreany and her two children
Freda Johnston Dreany on her wedding day