Educator.
Born at Lynden, Ontario on 5 December 1892, son of Cyrus Knox and Elizabeth McInty, he received a BA degree from Queen’s University (Kingston). During the First World War, he served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Europe from 1916 to 1919. Following his military discharge, he moved to Winnipeg where he worked as a teacher (1923-1948) and Vice-Principal (1948-1957) at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate. He taught at a military base in Germany from 1957 to 1959. On 25 December 1924, he married fellow teacher Olive Elsie Robinson in the RM of Franklin. They had one daughter, Joy Eileen Knox (?-1993, wife of James Corder Davis). He served as Secretary of the Manitoba Historical Society. He died at Winnipeg on 19 June 1987.
His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
Alexander Kennedy Isbister
MHS Transactions, Series 3, 1955-1956 SeasonThe Founder of the Isbister Scholarships
Manitoba Pageant, Volume 3, Number 1, September 1957
Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
Marriage registration [Harold Cyrus Knox, Elsie Olive Robinson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 24 June 1987.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 February 2023
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