joseph errington dies in toronto

 

 

The Montreal Gazette ran a story on the death of Joseph Errington on February 10, 1942.

Headline -

Joseph Errington Dies in Toronto

Little Long Lac Mines President Succumbs to Heart Attack at age 70

The story went that the Canadian coal fields pioneering mine developer, now living in Toronto, was at Union Station in Toronto awaiting a train to New York where he was to speak to the American Mining Association. He suffered a fatal heart attack at the station.

His funeral service was in Toronto but his body was put to rest in Beaverton, Ontario.

Joseph Errington was born in Simcoe County.
He was educated in Ontario.
He worked in the Sudbury district until 1909 then went west where he discovered coal with his partner R J McKenzie north of the Athabasca river.
The article does not name his widow or his two daughters living in Toronto or his five sisters that survived him.

Joseph Errington, according to the article was:

• member of the Ontario Mining Association
• member of the Canadian and American Associations of Mining and Metallurgy
• president of the Little Longlac Mines
• manager of the Treadwell Yukon Company
• president of the Sudbury Basin Mines Ltd.
• director of Sheritt Gordon Mines Ltd
• director of Osisko Lake Mines
• director of Sudbury Diamond Drilling Company Ltd
• director of Dominion Explorers Ltd
• director of Kenora Prospectors and Miners Ltd
• director of Bankfield Gold Mines Ltd
• director of Hardrock Gold Mines Ltd
• director of Ventures Ltd
• director of Oklend Gold Mines Ltd
• director of Paymaster Consolidated Mines Ltd

In 1928 Joseph Errington donated a large black diamond found in the Wesselton mines of Kimberley, South Africa in 1927 to the Royal Ontario Museum.

The black diamond was named the Errington Diamond and was supposedly as big as a silver dollar and 63.65 carots.