Father: James Coyle b.1831 in Ireland
Mother: Ellen Heffermen b.1839 Ontario d.9Feb.1917
Joseph Coyle was born in Ontario and worked as a painter, surveyor and reporter. After stops in New Jersey and Juneau Alaska, he settled in the Bulkley Valley, in Aldermere, in 1906. In 1907 he started the first newspaper in the area, the Bulkley Pioneer, for the North Coast Land Company.
He left the land company in 1908 and moved to Hazelton where he started the Omineca Harald with Louis DeVoin. He married Augusta Bradley in 1908 in Hazelton.
Coyle returned to Aldermere to publish the Interior News in 1909. Mr. Coyle also owned the only paper cutter in town so one of his chores was to cut sheets of money into bills for a newly opened Aldermere bank. In Sept. 1910 Coyle went into a successful brick-making business called Bulkley Brick Works, with John Kroening, for about a year before selling out in Nov. 1911.
In 1911 Mr. Coyle had invented an egg carton for Mr. George Demell to transport eggs for the La Croix ranch (Gabriel Lacroix) to Jack McNeill’s hotel in Aldermere.
With the construction of Smithers, in 1913, Coyle moved his news press over to the new town on Main Street and cranked out the first Smithers publication on Aug. 15, 1915 in the Lobsinger Building.
The egg carton worked well so finally in 1918 he patented his invention. In 1919 he sold the newspaper, moved to Vancouver to market and manufactured the carton with United Paper Products. This venture failed; subsequently he moved to Los Angeles, Chicago and returned to Ontario to establish manufacturing facilities in these cities.
The Interior News, meanwhile, was sold to L.B. Warner in 1919 and stayed in the Warner family until 1968 when it was purchased by North Central Press.
Many millions of egg cartons were manufactured under his patient but he never became a rich man, comfortable yes, but not rich. As with many inventors, others made far more money than he ever did.
Joseph Coyle also patented many other inventions.
He died in 1972 in New Westminster at age 101 after moving there in 1946.
Mother: Ellen Heffermen b.1839 Ontario d.9Feb.1917
Joseph Coyle was born in Ontario and worked as a painter, surveyor and reporter. After stops in New Jersey and Juneau Alaska, he settled in the Bulkley Valley, in Aldermere, in 1906. In 1907 he started the first newspaper in the area, the Bulkley Pioneer, for the North Coast Land Company.
He left the land company in 1908 and moved to Hazelton where he started the Omineca Harald with Louis DeVoin. He married Augusta Bradley in 1908 in Hazelton.
Coyle returned to Aldermere to publish the Interior News in 1909. Mr. Coyle also owned the only paper cutter in town so one of his chores was to cut sheets of money into bills for a newly opened Aldermere bank. In Sept. 1910 Coyle went into a successful brick-making business called Bulkley Brick Works, with John Kroening, for about a year before selling out in Nov. 1911.
In 1911 Mr. Coyle had invented an egg carton for Mr. George Demell to transport eggs for the La Croix ranch (Gabriel Lacroix) to Jack McNeill’s hotel in Aldermere.
With the construction of Smithers, in 1913, Coyle moved his news press over to the new town on Main Street and cranked out the first Smithers publication on Aug. 15, 1915 in the Lobsinger Building.
The egg carton worked well so finally in 1918 he patented his invention. In 1919 he sold the newspaper, moved to Vancouver to market and manufactured the carton with United Paper Products. This venture failed; subsequently he moved to Los Angeles, Chicago and returned to Ontario to establish manufacturing facilities in these cities.
The Interior News, meanwhile, was sold to L.B. Warner in 1919 and stayed in the Warner family until 1968 when it was purchased by North Central Press.
Many millions of egg cartons were manufactured under his patient but he never became a rich man, comfortable yes, but not rich. As with many inventors, others made far more money than he ever did.
Joseph Coyle also patented many other inventions.
He died in 1972 in New Westminster at age 101 after moving there in 1946.
Father: James Coyle b.1831 in Ireland
Mother: Ellen Heffermen b.1839 Ontario d.9Feb.1917
Joseph Coyle was born in Ontario and worked as a painter, surveyor and reporter. After stops in New Jersey and Juneau Alaska, he settled in the Bulkley Valley, in Aldermere, in 1906. In 1907 he started the first newspaper in the area, the Bulkley Pioneer, for the North Coast Land Company.
He left the land company in 1908 and moved to Hazelton where he started the Omineca Harald with Louis DeVoin. He married Augusta Bradley in 1908 in Hazelton.
Coyle returned to Aldermere to publish the Interior News in 1909. Mr. Coyle also owned the only paper cutter in town so one of his chores was to cut sheets of money into bills for a newly opened Aldermere bank. In Sept. 1910 Coyle went into a successful brick-making business called Bulkley Brick Works, with John Kroening, for about a year before selling out in Nov. 1911.
In 1911 Mr. Coyle had invented an egg carton for Mr. George Demell to transport eggs for the La Croix ranch (Gabriel Lacroix) to Jack McNeill’s hotel in Aldermere.
With the construction of Smithers, in 1913, Coyle moved his news press over to the new town on Main Street and cranked out the first Smithers publication on Aug. 15, 1915 in the Lobsinger Building.
The egg carton worked well so finally in 1918 he patented his invention. In 1919 he sold the newspaper, moved to Vancouver to market and manufactured the carton with United Paper Products. This venture failed; subsequently he moved to Los Angeles, Chicago and returned to Ontario to establish manufacturing facilities in these cities.
The Interior News, meanwhile, was sold to L.B. Warner in 1919 and stayed in the Warner family until 1968 when it was purchased by North Central Press.
Many millions of egg cartons were manufactured under his patient but he never became a rich man, comfortable yes, but not rich. As with many inventors, others made far more money than he ever did.
Joseph Coyle also patented many other inventions.
He died in 1972 in New Westminster at age 101 after moving there in 1946.
Mother: Ellen Heffermen b.1839 Ontario d.9Feb.1917
Joseph Coyle was born in Ontario and worked as a painter, surveyor and reporter. After stops in New Jersey and Juneau Alaska, he settled in the Bulkley Valley, in Aldermere, in 1906. In 1907 he started the first newspaper in the area, the Bulkley Pioneer, for the North Coast Land Company.
He left the land company in 1908 and moved to Hazelton where he started the Omineca Harald with Louis DeVoin. He married Augusta Bradley in 1908 in Hazelton.
Coyle returned to Aldermere to publish the Interior News in 1909. Mr. Coyle also owned the only paper cutter in town so one of his chores was to cut sheets of money into bills for a newly opened Aldermere bank. In Sept. 1910 Coyle went into a successful brick-making business called Bulkley Brick Works, with John Kroening, for about a year before selling out in Nov. 1911.
In 1911 Mr. Coyle had invented an egg carton for Mr. George Demell to transport eggs for the La Croix ranch (Gabriel Lacroix) to Jack McNeill’s hotel in Aldermere.
With the construction of Smithers, in 1913, Coyle moved his news press over to the new town on Main Street and cranked out the first Smithers publication on Aug. 15, 1915 in the Lobsinger Building.
The egg carton worked well so finally in 1918 he patented his invention. In 1919 he sold the newspaper, moved to Vancouver to market and manufactured the carton with United Paper Products. This venture failed; subsequently he moved to Los Angeles, Chicago and returned to Ontario to establish manufacturing facilities in these cities.
The Interior News, meanwhile, was sold to L.B. Warner in 1919 and stayed in the Warner family until 1968 when it was purchased by North Central Press.
Many millions of egg cartons were manufactured under his patient but he never became a rich man, comfortable yes, but not rich. As with many inventors, others made far more money than he ever did.
Joseph Coyle also patented many other inventions.
He died in 1972 in New Westminster at age 101 after moving there in 1946.
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