Obituary for Mrs William Pooley printed in the Pictou Advocate, 19 July 1940 page 1. 

Mrs. William Pooley

Word has been received in Pictou of the death in Vancouver on August 20 of Mrs. William Pooley, the last member of a family formerly prominent in the town.  Mrs. Pooley, who previous to her marriage to William Pooley, Nicola, B. C., was Jane Douglas, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Douglas of Pictou.  In her younger days she taught school in Pictou County and removed to Nicola on her marriage to Mr. Pooley, who was a rancher in the Nicola Valley.  He died about 30 years ago.

Three sisters and a brother, all well known in Pictou, predeceased her:  Minty, Ms. T A. Singleton; Grace, Mrs. Tuttill; and Mrs. Catherine MacArthur, who conducted a millinery business for many years in Pictou; and Daniel Douglas, merchant tailor, Pictou; Henry Douglas, Pictou and J. Douglas, Vair, Halifax, are nephews.

Mrs. Pooley alternated her residence between British Columbia and Pictou for the past number of years.  She spent the summer of 1937 in Pictou, and friends noticed with regret that her health was perceptibly failing at that time.  She was a woman of high principles, and kind and charitable in character, and will be remembered with respect by all classes in the community.  She was interred beside her husband at Nicola, B. C. 

Mrs. Pooley lived at 119 Prince Street, when in Pictou.