JOSEPH EDWARD RYMAL.
 

	Joseph Edward Rymal, an engineer on the Canadian National Railways,
who makes his home at No.1820 York street, Regina, was born in the
town of Barton, Wentworth county, Ontario, on May 26, 1883, in the
county in which his parents and grandparents were born and reared. On
his father's side of the house he is descended from the old Colonial Dutch
stock of New York, his ancestors having migrated into Canada.  They
were not United Empire Loyalists, however.  His great grandfather,
Jacob Rymal, sat in the first house of parliament in the Dominion, while
his grandfather, Joseph, a pioneer farmer of Ontario, sat in the Dominion
House for twenty-seven years. Edwin Rymal, the father, is now living
in Burlington, Ontario, a well-to-do retired farmer. A Liberal in politics,
he has held a number of local offices such as that of reeve in small towns,
and councillor. He is a member of the Methodist church, in which his
wife was an active worker. Mrs. Rymal, the mother of Joseph Edward
Rymal, bore the maiden name of Mary Jane Woolley.
	Joseph Edward Rymal was educated in the Ancaster high school and
the Collegiate Institute of Hamilton, following which he studied for a
while in a technical school and a normal school. In 1905, when he was
twenty-two years old, he entered the railroad business as a fireman and
five years later was made an engineer on the Grand Trunk Railroad.
He has been a railway engineer ever since and is now serving with the
Canadian National Railways.
	In June, 1913, Mr. Rymal was married to Miss Gertrude Loonee, who
was born and educated in Detroit, Michigan. They have two sons: Edwin,
a lad of nine; and David, aged seven. Mrs. Rymal is a member of the
Roman Catholic church, while her husband retains his affiliations with
the Methodist church, in which he was reared. He is a Royal Arch Mason
and in politics pursues an independent course.
	An interesting bit of family history related in connection with Mr.
Rymal's grandfather Rymal is that just before the Rebellion of 1885 Wil-
liam McKinzie King borrowed a horse from the old farmer, on which he
made good his escape from the country. Whether the horse was returned
by the fugitive or kept to add to his list of misdeeds is not recorded.



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