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- Joseph son of Alida McCready & Martin Snider, both born New Brunswick.
. 1906 Broomhill, Manitoba is the small railroad town where the Sniders would pickup their mail.
. Snider Family Tilston. The Snider family moved to Tilston from Ontario in about 1908 & settled on the N half of16-5-28. The family consisted of Mr. & Mrs. Snider, sons
Arthur Edgerton,
Harvey & daughter Ina.
About 1908, Edgerton & his wife settled on the S half of section 30-5-28. His wife was Elsie Rutherford. Mr. & Mrs. Snider Sr. passed away in about 1920 & their remains were shipped back to Ontario for burial.
Harvey, Art & & Ina continued to farm the land until 1923. Art & Ina returned to Ontario & turned the & over to their brother Harvey. After that he hired a lady from Saskatchewan, Mrs. Logan, to be his housekeeper. Mrs. Logan had 2 daughters, Mary & Dorothy. Dorothy attended school in Tilston for 2 years.
. 1896 Dec 11 - York General Sessions at noon on Tuesday the County Court appointed the grand jury, the first 6 having been chose from the city & the balance from the country: Joseph Snider. Mr. John Irwin was chose as foreman. This afternoon C R Fitch, barrister, is being tried on the charge of perjury by swearing in an examination that there as no judgements out against him, when it is alleged, there were.
. 1897 Dec 10, Town Council regular meeting, following bills passed: Joseph Snider fire & Electric bills, $3.07
. 1901 May 17 - Aurora, Sunday's windstorm took off the roofs of 2 barns near here, one belong to Joseph Snider the other to Eli Bruand.
Ref: Newmarket Ear Newspaper.
. 1926 July 31- Harvey, who held a druggist certificate, was killed by the east bound train at the crossing just west of the elevator at Tilston. His remains were sent back to Ontario for burial.
Edgerton Snider continued to farm his land on N. section 30-5-28 until 1924. In 1911-12he taught school at Tilston. In 1924, he rented his farm to Harry Clark & moved to Strathclair where he was principal of the school. He later moved to Selkirk, where he also taught school. He passed away at Grosse Isle in about 1940 from cancer of the throat'
Ref: Reflections of Time, A History of the R.M. of Albert, RM of Albert History Book 1984.
Verify which Joseph Snider which this was: Summary version:
. 1912 Apr 5 - Tragedy in Newmarket, Young Man Instantly Killed
About 5:36 Thursday afternoon last week a sad accident occurred: All day several man had been erecting a crone in the yard at Luesby's Marble Works to handling larger blocks of stone. Work was all compelled & a test was made by proprietary Geo W Luesby, who was located at the foot of the crane behind the boom for the purpose of swinging it around. Joseph Snider Watson Miller were turning the cranks that wind the steel cables. Go. McTavish, foreman, who had been working on the press about 10, held 2 large iron hogs in his hands to place under the stone as soon as the crane was in position, when all at once there was an electric shock.
Mr. Luesby let our a yell as he was knocked over,
Millard had one hand on the iron hands, was all knocked over,
but Snider could not let go his hand,
- the other young man McTavish was electrocuted instantly.
The hooks of the crane arm came into contact with the high tension transmission wire of theMetro Railway Co., transmitting up to 16,500 volts of Niagara power to transmitting station on Queen St., 300 yards to the east of the marble Works.
McTavish fell lifeless to the ground & snider was released from is grip. His hands were badly burned & the other 2 men were insensible for a few moments, Mr. Millards's features turned black.
To prevent any further possibility of future accident, the pole carrying the electric wires should be moved 20 feet to these & raised 10 to 15 feet higher.
The victim of the accident was industrious & popular young man, a member of Woodmen of the Word & the Chosen Friends Society. He was 3rds on of James McTavish. Interred at Newmarket Cemetery.
Ref: Newmarket Era Newspaper. - - -
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