Adelaide Mae Hamm was born and raised on her family's farm in Bunbury, Prince Edward Island. As a young woman she trained as a seamstress in Charlottetown. Adelaide had two brothers who fought in World War I at Vimy Ridge She lived most of her long life as a single woman on the family farm, never marrying, before dying at the age of 101 at the Atlantic Baptist Nursing Home on February 6th, 2004.