WILLIAM R. SMYTH

REMEMBERING OUR DEAR GREAT GRANDFATHER WILLIAM
R. SMYTH ON JUNE 5 2022 CANADIAN ARMED FORCES DAY
HE WAS A WORLD WAR 1 VETERAN WHO SERVED FOR CANADA (1914 - 1918) 1914 ENLISTED IN THE 119TH
BATTALION SAILED TO ENGLAND AND COMMANDED THE
238TH CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES OBTAINING THE RANK OF COLONEL WHILE SERVING HE MET SOME
VERY IMPORTANT MEN CANADIAN COLONEL SYDNEY
PENHORWOOD CANADIAN FLYING ACE BILLY BISHOP &
KING GEORGE V IN 1919 WAS APPOINTED A COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE BORN IN
SCOTLAND IMMIGRATED TO CANADA AT THE AGE OF 19
SETTLING IN RYDAL BANK ONTARIO WAS MARRIED FOR
53 YEARS AND WAS THE FATHER OF 11 CHILDREN HE WAS
A FARMER POSTMASTER & MERCHANT (OWNER SYMTH
GENERAL STORE) HE HAD A POLITICAL CAREER PC CONSERVATIVE FOR ALGOMA ELECTED 1902 - 1905 - 1908
ELECTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS (1910 -1913)
PRESIDENT OF THE NANCY HELEN MINE 1917 -1919 -1924
COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS 1924 -1932 SUPERVISOR OF COLONIZATION FOR THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT
PASSED AWAY IN OTTAWA IN 1932 AT AGE 75
OUR GRANDMOTHER WOULD TALK ABOUT HIM WOULD LIKED TO HAVE MET HIM TO HEAR HIM SPEAK THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE NOW HIS MANY STORIES GO UNHEARD
THANKS GRAMPS " WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU"
💓LOVE YOU 💓GRANDDAUGHTERS JANET & PAM