Hello,
Obit for Dudley Gerald Snape is in the Globe and Mail newspaper, on Dec 28, 1950, page 23. It says he died at his home, 286 Warden Ave, Birch Cliff, on Tuesday.. from a heart attack. He was 64. He had been with the Hudsons Bay company for "some years".
He had been a resident of Toronto since 1932 and had worked for the Ontario Liquor Control Board for a while. He was born in England, father was Bertram Snape, who had been involved with the management of the Hudsons Bay Company. As a young many, Dudley had gone to South Africa and was a manager of a plantation. He came back to England at the beginning of WW1 and served in France with the Imperial Army. After the war, he came to Canada and was the manager of several Hudsons Bay posts in Manitoba, Northern Quebec, and Northern Ontario. He travelled extensively in Europe and the Orient.
He was a member of the Legion of Frontiersmen, Beaches Post, Canadian Legion, Beaches Liberal Association and St. Nicholas Anglican Church, Birch Cliff.
Leaves his wife, Agnes C Gilles, daughter Mrs John Sweetman, son Dudley Barrington Snape, all of Toronto. 3 sisters and 2 brothers.
RK
Shorter obit in the Toronto Star on Dec 28, 1950, page 20. Has essentially the same information.
