Educator, cleric.
Born at Waterford, Ontario on 23 October 1877, son of William C. Kern and Mariamme Shaver, his early education was at Ancaster then at the Dundas High School. After attending the Hamilton Model School, he taught at a local school.
In 1896, he came to western Canada as a student minister and served at Methodist churches in Elm Creek, Stoughton (Saskatchewan), and Broadview (Saskatchewan). After attending the Regina Normal School, he taught school during summer months and Wesley College in winter, receiving a BA degree in 1908. Intending to become a lawyer, he articled with a law firm but changed his mind and instead went to West China as a missionary in 1909, along with his new wife, Ada Margueretta Harris (1880-1962, daughter of Rev. Alexander G. Harris and sister of Percy Dewart Harris) who he married on 28 July 1909. He was ordained in Manitoba in 1916 and returned to China in 1917 where he managed a school and did accounting work at the Canadian Press. On returning to Canada in 1924, he took a Bachelor of Pedagogy degree at the University of Toronto.
He served successively as the pastor at Tilston Methodist Church (c1924), Moore Park Methodist Church (?), and Knox United Church at Roblin (?-1933).
He died at Roblin on 29 January 1933 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Death registration [Daniel Shaver Kern], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Rev. D. S. Kern, of Roblin, Man., passes away,” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 January 1933, page 16.
“Many pay last respects to Rev. D. S. Kern,” Winnipeg Tribune, 1 February 1933, page 7.
Obituary [Ada Margueretta Kern], Winnipeg Free Press, 16 March 1962, page 29.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Evelyn Ward and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 February 2026
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