Engineer.
Born at Bilston, England on 11 April 1836, he apprenticed at the Shelton Iron Works where he assisted in making battery plates for ironclad ships. He also helped to lay the first trans-oceanic telegraph cable to Canada. He emigrated to the United States after the American Civil War and settled at New York. He worked in several states, moving in 1870 to Canada where he settled at Brantford, Ontario. He worked in the bridge-building department of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In 1882 he came to Winnipeg to work as a stationery engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Among his 13 children was building contractor Daniel David Wood. He died at Winnipeg on 22 May 1915 and was buried in Brantford, Ontario.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Daniel Wood, old timer in west, dead,” Winnipeg Telegram, 24 May 1915 [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B6]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 May 2020
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