Police officer.
Born at Castle Gray, Limerick, Ireland in 1866, son of John Pyne Pennefather, he came to Canada with his family in 1880 and joined the Royal North West Mounted Police in 1885 and over the next 30 years was stationed at various posts throughout western Canada. He was at Morden when he married Edith MacDermott of Goderich, Ontario. They had three children. From 1899 to 1906 he was stationed in the Yukon then spent some years at Prince Albert and Lethbridge. When he retired from the force in 1922 he returned to Prince Albert where he served as a magistrate for several years. He died at the Winnipeg home of his daughter on 11 November 1942 and was buried in the St. John's Cathedral Cemetery.
Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Lt.-Col. P. W. Pennyfather dies, aged 76,” Manitoba Free Press, 12 November 1942. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 120]
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 July 2022
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