Grain merchant.
Born in Ontario on 11 December 1880, son of David Wesley Bole and Isabella Lennox (1861-1931), he worked in his father’s Winnipeg drug company until the 1920s when he headed the Bole Grain Company and Electric Elevator and Grain Company. On 7 September 1904, he married Edith Mary Richards (1882-1950, eldest daughter of Albert Elswood Richards) at Winnipeg. They had two children: Elswood Frederick Bole and Edith Isobel Bole (1908-1971, wife of Leslie Carrington Radcliffe). He died at his Winnipeg home, 203 Kingston Row, on 16 July 1950 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.
Birth registration [Elswood Frederick Bole], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Frederick Hartington Bole, Edith May Richards], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Edith Isabel Bole, Leslie Carrington Radcliffe], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Mrs. F. H. Bole dies at coast,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 February 1950, page 25.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 18 July 1950, page 11.
Winnipeg Free Press necrology files. [University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, Winnipeg Elite Study, G. Friesen Fonds, Mss 154, Box 15, File 16]
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Michael Radcliffe for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 September 2023
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