17428 - McKinstry, Ernest

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Event Type : Death
Municipality : Other - Bradford
Community : Port Arthur, Ont.
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Description : Veteran printer and outstanding athlete of the early 1900's, Ernest McKinstry, 79, died recently at Port Arthur. Born in Bradford, Mr. McKinstry learned his trade with the Bradford Witness. Keen about lacross, Mr. McKinstry came to Port Arthur on an invitation to play the game with a team there in 1896. He took employment in the same year as a printer on the Herald and Algoma Miner. As superintendent of the jo-department, he was there until the business was sold in 1913.Mr.McKinstry was also a keen curler and a life member of the Port Arthur Curling Club. He was married in 1907 to the former Louise Cooper, daughter of an early Port Arthur settler, Captain John Cooper.A resident of Port Arthur since leaving his native town, with the exception of a few years spent in the west, Mr. McKinstry was a partner with Mrs. Denny Bacon in The Thunder Bay Printers from 1937 to 1942 when he bought out Mrs. Bacon. He operated the business until 1951. He then worked for the Art Craft Printing Co.He was a member of Shuniah Lodge, A.F. & A.M.Surviving are his wife, Louise; three sons, Robert, Port Arthur; William, Nobel, Ont.; and Ernest, R.R. 2, Fort William; two daughters, Dorothy, Mrs. Peter Slobidian and Marion, Mrs. George Stubbings both of Port Arthur; 15 grandchildren and one great grandchild.The funeral was held under the asupices of Shuniah Masonic Lodge and interment was in Riverside Cemetery, Port Arthur.