Businessman.
Born at Manitouwaning, Ontario on 19 December 1883, he came to Winnipeg in 1903 and joined the wholesale grocery firm of G. F. and J. Galt Limited, which later became Blue Ribbon Limited. At one time manager of the company’s branches in Calgary and Vancouver, in October 1917 he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force who served overseas in the First World War. After his military discharge and further work for the company, he returned to Winnipeg in 1928 to become General its Manager and was later named President.
He and wife Helen Muriel Ball (1891-1981) had two children: Betty Jo Ball (wife of ? Johnston) and Robert Bruce Ball. He was an elder and superintendent at St. Stephens-Broadway United Church where he was also active in Sunday School work. He was a member of the Gideon Society and a life member of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
He died at his Winnipeg home, 146 Montrose Street, on 7 November 1950 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
“Joseph Ball, city executive dies at 66,” Winnipeg Tribune, 8 November 1950. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 156]
Obituary [Helen Muriel Ball], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 April 1981, page 62.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Sarah Ramsden and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 September 2025
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