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Memorable Manitobans: John Alexander “Alex” Snyder (1861-1937)
Brickmaker.
Born in Ontario in June 1861, he lived in Washington state from the 1890s until a return to Canada in 1907, when he established a brickyard at Portage la Prairie. He and wife Rebecca Griffin (1869-1949) had seven children: ? Snyder, ? Snyder, Ethel Grace Snyder (1892-1992, wife of Frank Mills Baker), Eva May Snyder (1896-?), Orrin Griffin Snyder (1899-?), Helen Ruth Snyder (1908-?, wife of LeRoy Babcock), and Dorothy Mabel Snyder (1910-?, wife of Ed Bothwell). He served as a Portage city alderman (1918). He died at Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario on 11 June 1937 and was buried in the Hillside Cemetery at Portage la Prairie.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Snyder Brickyard (Portage la Prairie)
MHS Resources: Manitoba Bricks and Blocks: Snyder Brick Yards
Sources:
Birth registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
The Tread of the Pioneers by Joseph H. Metcalfe, 1932.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 12 June 1937, page 36.
Obituary [Ethel Grace Baker], Winnipeg Free Press, 7 April 1992, page 32.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 May 2020
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