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John Joseph Brown

Birth	:	22 Aug 1875 Caledon, Peel Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada
Death	:	2 Oct 1961 Grand Valley, Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada
Burial	:	Union Cemetery, Grand Valley, Dufferin County, Canada
Coordinate	:	43.8922070, -80.3121550
Plot	:	Lot 12N, Grave 1N, Section/Row 10 – there is no headstone
Description	:	1881 Canada census: East Luther Township, Wellington North County, Ontario, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. 1891 Canada census: East Luther Township, Wellington North County, Ontario, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. 1901 Canada census: East Luther Township, Wellington North County, Ontario, Canada. Religion: Methodist. Occupation: Farmer's Son. 1911 Canada census: Battleford, Battleford Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. Occupation: Farmer. 1916 Canada census: Township 32, Range 12, Meridian 3, Municipality Harris. Kindersley, Kindersley Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. Occupation: Farmer. 1921 Canada census: ... Read More	1881 Canada census: East Luther Township, Wellington North County, Ontario, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. 1891 Canada census: East Luther Township, Wellington North County, Ontario, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. 1901 Canada census: East Luther Township, Wellington North County, Ontario, Canada. Religion: Methodist. Occupation: Farmer's Son. 1911 Canada census: Battleford, Battleford Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. Occupation: Farmer. 1916 Canada census: Township 32, Range 12, Meridian 3, Municipality Harris. Kindersley, Kindersley Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. Occupation: Farmer. 1921 Canada census: 223 Avenue E Nth, Ward 5, Saskatoon, Saskatoon Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada. Religion: Presbyterian. Occupation: Carpenter, Jobbier. DEATH INFORMATION: Burial site: Lot 12N, Grave 1N, Section/Row 10 – there is no headstone. Obituary from the Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatoon Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada) on Friday, October 13, 1961, page 2, column 8: J. J. Brown, 87, Dies in Ontario John Joseph Brown, 87, a former resident of Saskatoon, died October 2, in Perth County, Ont., near where he was born. Surviving are his widow and one son, Wesley, Collingwood, Ont. Mr. Brown came west from Ontario in 1904 and was employed in this city as foreman of Saskatoon Forwarding Company. He had a reputation as a horseman in those days. In 1908 he filed on a homestead near Harris alongside his brother, Samuel. OTHER INFORMATION: Harris History Book Committee. Harris and Districts: Heritage and Homage, Harris, Saskatchewan: Harris History Book Committee, 1982, pages 226 and 227: Brown, John Joseph by Mabel Johnson John Joseph Brown was a brother of Sam Brown, he was born in Ontario near Grand Valley. Came to Harris in 1908 and took a homestead 2 miles West of Harris. John married Annie Fielding, sister of Russell Fielding. Annie taught at Silver Cloud school having had teacher training in Ontario. There oldest son, Wesley was born about 1910 and Arnold several years later, Annie died soon after this. John had previously worked in Saskatoon and had become a foreman of the Saskatoon Forwarding Co. He was a skilled horseman and was given several jobs of moving buildings that required the use of several teams. One of the jobs he undertook was to raise the engine of a riversteamer called the "Medicine Hat" which had crashed when trying to maneuver under the old "Traffic Bridge" in Saskatoon. The boiler had filled up with river silt and several attempts to raise it had been unsuccessful. This time he used 17 teams strung out and waited until the river ice was solid enough to support them. In order to protect the horses in case the ice broke he stationed I man at the back and gave him orders to cut the cable attached to the engine if and when he (John) gave the order. The engine lifted okay and they got it moving and kept it moving down 2nd Ave. until some fool photographer wanting to get a good picture yelled "whoa" at the lead team, that put my uncle in a quandary. How to get the whole thing moving again without getting a side-wise pull to free it from the ice on the street. He got it moving but the lead team broke a big plate glass window in Caswell's store. The steam boiler was taken to a dairy and my uncle had a fascinating story about installing it on the base provided in a below ground level room. It was all done with horses. We have an interesting picture of another move he supervised, it was a building that had been used as a railway station in Warman. A part of the engine was taken to C. P. R. station to be shipped East. He had a very difficult time after his wife died. He remarried and settled in Saskatoon where he drove a delivery team for G. H. Wentz Co. for many years. The youngest son, Arnold was never very robust and when he was 22 years he passed away with cancer. Wesley did not have real good health either but is still living in Ontario. He is a well known collector of memorabilia and has contributed some items for this history. Wesley returned to work for a few years during the thirties for Lou Trapp in the Glen Eagle-Muirland district. He had spent several interesting years in Prince Albert. During the thirties Uncle John was unemployed and while working for the city in return for relief vouchers he froze his hands quite badly. This was a long time healing. Then he was crossing Ave. H one day and a car turned unexpectedly and knocked him down, and then the panicked driver put his car in reverse and went tight over him. He spent his later years in Fort Erie, Ontario with his son Wesley. John died in 1961 in Grand Valley, Ontario.

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John Joseph Brown death on 2 Oct 1961 in Grand Valley, Dufferin County, Ontario, Canada
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Latitude: 43.8922070
Longitude: -80.3121550

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Coordinate: 43.8922070, -80.3121550

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