1st Born of
Arthur & Susannah
Harry is the first of this generation that was born in Canada. Following
is about Harry Edwin including the times in which he grew up in, his marriage
and his family. This is the start of the tree that expands with his five
children that would carry on his lineage.
Harry Edwin Griffiths was [b]
in Dec. 24, 1851 in Ontario as a Catholic. In 1874 at the age of 23, Harry began his
novice training as a Mounted Constable for the North West Mounted Police. After
completing four years training he was discharged on May 31st, 1879. On the back of discharge paper it states Harry
was 5’8” with a 34” chest, blue eyes, and fair hair.
1874 was also the year Alexander
Graham Bell would display his new invention, the telephone, to his own family on the outskirts of Brantford,
Ontario on July 26.
In 1879 after leaving the
Mounties at the age of 27 Harry
became a Harness maker as stated on the 1891 census. It is recorded he lived in Yorkville area in
the late 1880s. Toronto's horse-drawn streetcar
operations ended in 1891 as the electrical was the new era. Milk and bread
deliveries by horse ended about 1915 in Toronto which started bringing the
trade for harness makers limited. During the First World War horses helped move
artillery but that came to an end with the war.
Harry Edwin at 28 [m] Jun 9th,
1880 to a 24 year old Belinda Smith at the Cathedral Church of St. James Anglican
in Toronto. The ceremony was performed by Richard W. E. Greene, Assistant St. James, in 1880
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