Jacob A. "Jack" Knoepfli

1884 - 1959  (74 years)

• Name	Jacob A. "Jack" Knoepfli
  Born	14 Aug 1884	Urnasch, Appenzell Outer Rhodes, Switzerland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/138029885
  Name	J. A. Knoepfli
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-211920
  Died	10 Aug 1959	Nelson, , British Columbia, Canada
  Buried	Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  Person ID	I211920	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2025

  
  

  Family	Nina Cressman,   b. 18 Jan 1880, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 21 Sep 1931, Calgary, Alberta, Canada  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2025
  Family ID	F63981	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Services Set For Calgary Hotel Man NELSON, B.C. (CP)-Funeral services were to be held at Calgary Wednesday for Jacob A. Knoepfli, 74, who died in Kootenay Lake General Hospital here Monday. Mr. Knoepfle built the York Hotel in Calgary was its owner and manager along with the St. Regis, also in Calgary, until he sold his hotel interests in 1946. Born in Berne, Switzerland, he came to Canada at the age of two with his parents, settling in Ontario. At 17 he went to Calgary following year began homesteading in the Didsbury district. He was a member of the Calgary Lions Club and a life member of the Calgary board of trade. He lived in Victoria before to Balfour, on nearby Kootenay Lake, in 1949. Besides his wife, survivors are one son, Allen, in Edmonton; two daughters, Miss Enid Knoepfli and Mrs. Leslie Boulton, both in Okotoks, Alta., and six grandchildren. Newfoundland was England's first colony.. Edmonton Journal Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Wed, Aug 12, 1959 Page 6 ______________ Ex-Calgarian, 74, Dies In Nelson, B.C. Nelson, B.C.--Funeral services will be held at Calgary Wednesday for Jacob A. Knoepfli, 74, who died in Kootenay Lake general hospital here Monday. Mr. Knoepfil built the York Hotel in Calgary and was its owner and manager along with the St. Regis, also in Calgary, until he sold his hotel interests in 1946. Born in Berne, Switzerland, he came to Canada at the age of two with his parents, settling in Ontario. At 17 he went to Calgary and the following year began homesteading in the Didsbury district. He was a member of the Calgary Lions Club and a life member of the Calgary Board of Trade. He lived in Victoria before moving to Balfour, on nearby Kootenay Lake, in 1949. The Calgary Herald, August 11, 1959, page 1

  
  

• Sources

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• Event Map

  Died - 10 Aug 1959 - Nelson, , British Columbia, Canada Buried - - Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada  = Link to Google Earth