Firefighter.
He farmed near Ste. Rose du Lac until moving to Brandon in 1929 where he joined the Brandon Fire Department. On 7 September 1920, he married Agnes Gray (?-?) at Dauphin and they had six children: Winnifred Agnes “Win” Brown (1922-2013, wife of Gilbert James “Gib” Bell), Ena Brown (wife of Arnold Dafoe), Eunice Brown (wife of Michael Harris and ? McLean), Glen Brown, Robert “Bob” Brown, and Stanley “Stan” Brown. The family lived at 119 Twenty-first Street in Brandon at the time of his death. He died at Brandon on 6 April 1953, as a result of smoke inhalation while fighting a fire, and was buried in the Rosewood Memorial Gardens. As the only Brandon firefighter to have lost his life in the line of duty, he is commemorated by Fred Brown Way.
Birth registration [Winnifred Agnes Brown], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Frederick Joseph Brown, Agnes Gray], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Winnifred Agnes Brown, Gilbert James Bell], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Fireman lost life as block burned,” Brandon Sun, 7 April 1953, page 1.
Obituary [Winnifred Agness Bell], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 May 2013.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 April 2025
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