Birch Hall, Kirby-le-Soken
Horace in Ontario at a picnic, lying on the ground
Alice Breckon
Horace and Alice Wrinch in traveling clothes
The newly-built Wrinch home in Hazelton
Skeena River sternwheeler
Hazelton Hospital
Hospital Staff about 1912
Horace with his son Arthur, on his right, and Harold in about 1920. Arthur became a Major-General in the Canadian Army and, later, and head of the Canadian Red Cross.
Horace and Alice Wrinch and their family
Timeline
1866 January 6 Horace Wrinch born on a farm at Kirby-le-Soken in Essex, England.
1880 May 18 Arrives in Quebec, attends St. Francis Agricultural College, Richmond.
1884 Horace moves to Halton County in Ontario to farm with his brother Leonard.
1890 Horace is active in Methodism in Palermo, Halton County.
1894 - 1895 Attends Albert College in Belleville, and matriculates.
1896 (7) - 1899 Attends Trinity Medical College in Toronto and graduates as a doctor and surgeon.
1899-1900 House surgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto.
1900 June 16 Horace marries Alice Beckon.
1900 September Horace and Alice arrive in Kispiox on the Skeena River.
1902 Horace and Alice move to Hazelton.
1903 August Builds family home in Hazelton, and takes in hospital patients.
1904 October The Hazelton Hospital opens.
1905-1906 Horace spend seven months in Ontario and New York.
1906 June 19 The Gunanoot Affair. One of the murdered men is found on Horace’s own land.
1907 Horace sets up the ticket scheme at the Hazelton Hospital.
1911 The first car to drive overland from the south arrives. Or did it?
1912 October First Grand Trunk Pacific railway car reaches in New Hazelton.
1914 April 17 New Hazelton Bank robbery.
1914-1918 World War.
1918 October Spanish Flu hits Hazelton.
1923 March 11 Alice dies.
1921-1923 Horace is President BC Hospital Association for two terms.
1924 June Elected an MLA for the Omineca Riding.
1927 February Horace moves public health insurance in the Legislature.
1927 September 15 Horace re-marries.
1928 July Re-elected MLA.
1930 December 29 New Hazelton Hospital built and opened.
1933 Horace does not stand for relection.
1934-1936 Horace serves on Premier Patullo’s Economic Council.
1936 October Horace retires and leaves Hazelton.
1939 October 19 Horace dies in Vancouver.