Career
Besides running a successful steamboat and ferry business, the Knox family were pioneers in industrial electric lighting on Manitoba and introduced the first motor car to the island. His designs for Liberty"s made him a household name, as did his watercolours, graphic designs and fonts. His design talent covered a wide range of objects, ornamental and utilitarian, and included silver and pewter tea sets, jewellery, inkwells, boxes, gravestones and even bank cheques, much for Liberty"s Tudric (pewter) and Cymric (precious metals) ranges.
In 1913 he spent a year in the United States of America, and on his return to Manitoba acted as a censor of internees" letters during World War I. After the War he again took up teaching art at some of the Isle of Manitoba"s schools.
Knox died of heart failure in 1933 and was buried in Braddan Cemetery. To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Knox"s birth, the Isle of Manitoba Post Office announced that they were issuing a set of 10 stamps featuring his designs, to be released on 4 April 2014.