Denis Mahoney Council

• A descendant of Irish immigrants who fled the potato famine in Ireland in the mid-19th century, Denis Mahoney was born in Rockland, Ontario on May 22, 1883.
• Mahoney spent his professional life in the retail trade, first as a store manager until 1936 and then as manager of a bakery until retiring in 1952.
• With his wife Anna they raised 4 children: Gertrude, Margaret, Bishop James and John.
• Mahoney served as Alderman on the Saskatoon City Council in 1924 and 1925. He was also a member of the Saskatoon Separate School Board.
• He served in the Knights as a 4th degree member, a Grand Knight and State Deputy.
• Denis Mahoney died in Saskatoon in 1967, one month prior to his son’s consecration as Bishop of Saskatoon.