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William Thomson Storey
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Lumber merchant.
Born in Ontario on 18 August 1848, brother of John James Story, he established a lumberyard at Wawanesa in August 1889, eventually selling the business to the Imperial Lumber Company in 1920. He and wife Mary Anne McDonald (1847-1925) had two children: Gilbert Calder Storey (1891-1963) and Frances Macdonald “Fannie” Storey (1893-1988, wife of Colin Hamlin Burnell). He died in 1926 and was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery at Toronto, Ontario.
Birth registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Obituary [Mary Ann Storey], Toronto Star, 19 February 1925, page 26.
“Father of Ford City Man dies at Toronto,” The Border Cities Star, 4 February 1926, page 5.
Obituary [Gilbert Caler Storey], Windsor Star, 3 August 1963, page 5.
Sipiweske, Light Through the Trees: 100 Years of Wawanesa and District, Wawanesa & District History Book Committee, 1988.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 April 2024
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