- ?b?E. WINSLOW-SFRAGGE
'Mayflower' Descendant Rites Today
?/b?Funeral for Edward Winslcw. Spragee, OBE, former vice-president and general manager of Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Co. Ltd. who died at his home in Almonte, Ont., Sunday night, will be held at 2:30 p.m. today from St Paul's Anglican Church in Almonte. He was 66.
Born in Montreal, the son of Edward Pelham Winslow, prominent in banking circles, and S. M. Alice Spragge, he was a direct descendant of Edward Winslow of the "Mayflower" company, and later governor of Massachusetts Bay colony, whose letters were published as the "Winslow Papers."
Educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, he was also a graduate in mechanical engineering from McGill University. He began his career with Robert W. Hunt and Co. but was associated with Canadian Ingersoll-Rand since 1909 in Toronto and Cobalt, Ont., and Sherbrooke and Montreal, Que.
During the First World War he played an important part in munitions manufacture. Ill health during the Second World War forced his retirement from executive duties but he carried on as a director. He was called to Ottawa in 1943 as special negotiator for the financial advisor to the Munitions and Supply Department.
For years he was an active member of Christ Church Cathedral here, a life governor of the Montreal General Hospital and a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Prominent in the Canadian
Manufacturers' Association, he accompanied the group on its tour of England in 1939.
On his retirement to Almonte, he became prominent in comrrmnity and church affairs there.
He is survived by his wile, the former Lois Sybil Harrington, Almonte; a son, John (Edward), Montreal; four daughters. Mrs. Gustave Simons, Connecticut, , and Mrs. Donald Byers. Mrs. Frank Cobbett, and Mrs. Duncan Duclos, all Montreal; and three brothers, Kenelm, Montreal Terence, Perth, Ont., and Hugh, in Florida.
Burial will be in Almonte.
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1886 - 1953 (66 years)
