(17 Sept. 1868-17 June 1961), businessman. (Daniel A. Roach, Dan Roach) Born at Summerstown, GC. Parents: Donald Roach and his wife Bridget Lamasney. He attended separate school and and high school in Cornwall, which was the town where he grew up, and Bourget College in Quebec. He worked for the Swift meat company in the United States till 1898, then was transferred by Swift to England. All the rest of his career was in England and on the European continent. He was married in Dublin, Ireland, on 2 Feb. 1902, to Katherine Curtis, Dublin. (two children) Before WWI, he was prominent in the meat trade of England and the European continent. For three years during WWI, he worked on the European continent, representing meat buyers. In the later stages of the war, he was transferred to the United Kingdom’s ministry of food as a member of the meat distribution committee, the organization which regulated meat rationing. After the war, he had charge of Swift’s fresh meat business on the continent. He retired in 1933 from his long career as a Swift company executive. In retirement, he and his wife took up residence in Jersey in the Channel Islands. When he was revisiting Cornwall in the summer of 1938, the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder described his career in a long article in its Down the Lane column (25 July 1938). The Channel Islands were occupied by Germany in WWII, and it is likely that Roach was among the approximately one-half of the population which was evacuated to the British mainland to avoid coming under German rule, but he was again a resident of Jersey by 1948, as two references to him that year in the Cornwall newspaper show. He died at the General Hospital, Jersey. His brother Guy Raymond Roach (1885-1948), who became a “well known Toronto barrister,” studied law under “Justice Leitch” (presumably James Leitch).
DTL as cited * registration of his death: information from Registrar, Parish of St. Helier, Jersey * sends card to a Cornwall resident, Standard Freeholder 16 March 1948 * Guy Raymond Roach: [Can.] Who’s Who and Why 1921 p. 1382 (portrait) & obituary SFH 19 July 1948