Doctors once said a heart condition would kill Annette Vardy by age 21, but she has defied the odds, celebrating her 100th birthday on Thursday. Annette Vardy blows out her birthday candles, with help from her family. ''When a young person is not expected to live until they're 21, and they live to be 100, that's something to be thankful for, isn't it?' Annette Vardy and her fiance Arthur Stanfield, who died returning home from the Second World War. Annette Vardy with her adopted daughter, Leela.

Source: CBC News January 27, 2018 12:22 UTC