John Ivor Warren
Role: Winch boy
Date of birth: 07 Aug 1927
Date of death: 09 Jul 1946
Cause of death: Struck by trip
Age at death: 18
John Ivor Warren was born in Coleman, Alberta on August 7th, 1927, and worked as winch boy at the No. 5 mine in Cumberland. He was 18 years old, and the Second World War had just ended the previous year, when he was struck by a runaway trip on July 9th, 1946. He was survived by his parents, William and Margaret Ann, and an older brother, James. John's family had lived at 2540 Dunsmuir in the late 1920s.